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NEWS CENTER - Workers and activists around the world are marking May Day with rallies, calling for higher salaries, reduced working hours and better working conditions. May Day, or International Labour Day, falls on May 1 and is observed in many countries as a day to celebrate workers’ rights. This year’s...

BEHDINAN - YJA Star Headquarters Command Member Zozan Çewlîg answered journalist Tekoşîn Axîn's questions regarding the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla's decision of inaction since the 14 May elections and the Kurdistan-centered earthquakes in February. A short time ago, the YJA Star Command Council held its meeting. Important decisions were taken at this...

NEWS CENTER - On April 21, 1856, Australian workers protested for 8 hours of work, when they were working 12 to 14 hours. When the workers realized that their actions brought results, all year on that day they held demonstrations to fulfill their wishes. This became a culture and spread...

MANIZALES - On the 25th of this month, a group of students and activists met at the Caldas University in Manizales, Colombia and held a discussion based on the Lêgerîn Magazine, the current situation in Kurdistan, the political situation in Colombia, Abya Yala and the World. Representatives of organizations and...

NEWS CENTER – PKK Executive Committee made a written statement on the occasion of May 1, World Workers and Laborers' Day. In the PKK statement, “Let's make this May 1 the beginning of the great victory of democracy. As workers and laborers, women and youth, patriotic Kurdish people and all oppressed, revolutionary and...

NEWS CENTER - Two weeks before the May 14 elections, police raids took place in 21 provinces on Tuesday (April 25) as part of an investigation based in Amed (Diyarbakır). Among those detained are journalists, politicians, lawyers, union leaders and artists. 143 people were taken into custody as a result of...

NEWS CENTER -  Thomas Sankara, revolutionary from Burkina Faso, campaigning against the desertification of the Sahel. The 1980s were a time of great challenges on the African continent, especially for people living in the Sahel region, as they saw an accelerated desertification process driving people out of their villages in...

BEHDÎNAN – YJA Star Central Command released the identities of guerrilla fighters Gulçiya Gabar and Pelşîn Newroz in a written statement and stated the following about the fallen guerrilla fighters: “Our comrade Gulçiya Gabar and comrade Pelşîn Newroz, the brave commanders of our society, with a noble person and simple and...

NEWS CENTER – The co-chairman of the KCK Executive Council has released a May Day greeting message, commemorating the May Day fallen and calling on all people to support the Jobs and Freedom Alliance and the Yeşil Sol party. The message states, among other things: With feelings of unity and solidarity, we once...

AMED –  Within the scope of the Amed-based investigation, the operation carried out on the morning of April 25, also raided Halise Aksoy's house in Amed, where the bones of her son, HPG guerrilla Egit İpek, were sent to her by cargo. Aksoy was detained and taken to Diyarbakır Provincial Security Directorate....