ROMA ARE BEING EXCLUDED AS SCHOOLS IN TURKEY SWITCH TO DISTANCE LEARNING

Posted on December 16, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged children, coronavirus, covid, deep poverty network, distance learning, education, Europe, exclusion, featured, Hacer Foggo, pandemic, Recep Erdogan, Roma, roma education fund, Romani, school, teaching, turkey, Ziya Selçuk.

by Jonathan Lee

In a small apartment in the Sancaktepe-Emek neighbourhood of Istanbul, 12-year-old Miray sits at home, trying to get her 9-month-old brother to sleep. Her other younger brother, only 3-years-old, plays on the floor. It is just past midday on a Tuesday – a school day – but Miray is at home, looking after her siblings while her mother is at work; unable to attend classes because of the Covid-19 pandemic, and unable to join her classmates remotely because of her family’s precarious financial situation.

Miray and her family belong to Europe’s largest and most discriminated ethnic minority group – the Roma – who because of centuries of persecution and exclusion often exist on the margins of society, where they are subjected to racism and poverty.

SLAUGHTER AND MASS DISPLACEMENT IN IDLIB

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged #Save_Idlib, Aleppo, Bashar al-Assad, bombing, bombs, ceasfire, drones, featured, Hama, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, Idlib, Iran, islamic relief, israel, Nato, propaganda, putin, raed al-saleh, Russia, saraqib, save idlib, state media, Syria, syria campaign, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, terrorism, turkey, UN, united nations, white helmets.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

“Children and anybody with a free spirit have become terrorists in the eyes of the world.” My Syrian friend and I are discussing the current situation in Idlib. We are both exasperated that the world is standing idly by as thousands of innocent people are murdered or made homeless. Idlib, a governorate in North West Syria, is often portrayed as home exclusively to terrorists and violent Islamist extremists. My friend’s reference to “a free spirit” is his description of the people who participated in the Syrian revolution: those who dared to demand a free and peaceful life including the right to participate in democratic elections and to exercise freedom of speech and assembly without fear of being arbitrarily detained, tortured, executed or otherwise disappeared into the Syrian regime’s nightmarish prison system.Continue Reading

ROJAVA, REFUGEES & EU RESPONSIBILITY

Posted on November 9, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged arms trade, assad, complicity, conflict, daesh, democracy, ecology, ecosocialism, Erdogan, EU, featured, feminism, genocide, ISIS, Kurds, liberation, media, migration, MSM, PKK, radical, refugee, refugees, revolution, Rojava, Syria, turkey, USA Military, war crimes, YPG, YPJ.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

Since Turkey’s aggressive offensive against Rojava, an area of North Eastern Syria, began early in October 2019, at least 160,000 Syrians have fled their homes. A BBC report from the 17th October states that airstrikes and ground attacks have killed civilians on both sides of the Turkey / Syria border and quotes a UNICEF estimate that 70,000 children have already been displaced. This is a tragedy for the Kurdish citizens of Rojava, as well as the broader Middle East, given what the Rojava political project represented. Continue Reading

ROJAVA: A REVOLUTIONARY VISION UNDER FIRE

Posted on October 16, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged arms trade, assad, conflict, democracy, ecology, ecosocialism, Erdogan, featured, feminism, genocide, ISIS, Kurds, liberation, PKK, radical, refugees, revolution, Rojava, Syria, turkey, USA Military, war crimes, YPG, YPJ.

by Yali Banton-Heath

It’s been over a week since Turkey launched a fresh military offensive targeting Kurdish forces in northeast Syria. The death toll in Rojava is rising, and an exodus of civilians from the area has already reached a mass scale. Conflict in Syria thus deepens, becoming ever more complex, with the Syrian regime armed forces now reported to have moved into Kurdish controlled Manbij in order to counter the Turkish invasion. But what has sparked this new wave of insurgency? What role does the US have? What are the Kurds fighting for? And what significance does this have for the wider global justice movement?

WHAT WE CALL A TERRORIST SHOULD APPLY TO POWERFUL STATES AS WELL

Posted on July 21, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged arrest, Bashar al-Assad, BDS, Diyarbakir, featured, Gaza, human rights, Iran, Iran Revolutionary Guard, israel, Kurd, Kurdistan, occupation, Omar al Bashir, palestine, PKK, racism, refugee, RSF, Saudi Arabia, state terror, state violence, terrorism, Trump, turkey, UAE, war crimes.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

In April of this year, President Trump further demonstrated his ineptitude as world leader, and cemented his status as an intellectually defective moron, by designating Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization. Yes. Trump has designated a sovereign country’s state forces “terrorists” despite his single-handed destruction of the Iranian Nuclear Deal, wholehearted support for Israeli aggression and murder of unarmed Palestinians, and the fact that U.S state forces have unjustifiably slaughtered millions. The pot is definitely calling the kettle black. Continue Reading

THE DEATH OF EUROPE AS IT ONCE WAS

Posted on June 1, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Borderlines, Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged compassion, Egypt, ethnocentrism, Europe, featured, France, iraq, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, marie rose, nationalism, refugees, Syria, turkey, vigilantes, war crimes, xenophobia.

By Sarah Edgcumbe

Since the beginning of the conflict in Syria in 2012, over three million civilians have fled the country. The vast majority are currently living in Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt and Libya. Afghanistan has been subjected to war for four decades resulting in Afghans comprising the second highest refugee population in the world, yet the vast majority of Afghan refugees live in Iran and Pakistan. This resettlement of Syrian and Afghan refugees in neighbouring countries is no anomaly: the majority of refugees around the world reside in countries neighbouring their own. These countries often have poor economies and fragility of peace and governance, yet they often accommodate millions of refugees.

THE ENEMY OF YOUR ENEMY IS NOT YOUR FRIEND: PSEUDO-LEFTISTS, ASSAD & RUSSIA

Posted on May 2, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged airstrikes, anti america, assad, Assad regime, bombing, chemical warfare, chemical weapons, daesh, david cameron, Eastern Ghouta, featured, food, France, global media, Hama, Hillary Benn, house of commons, human rights, humanitarian grounds, international intervention, international media, leftism, propaganfa, putin, right to protect, RT, Russia, SHRC, society, surgical strikes, Syria, Syrian Kurds, turkey, United Kingdom, USA, YPG.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

CW: mentions of torture, violence, assault

For a few years now so-called leftists have been acting as cheerleaders for Syria’s President Assad. The apparent logic seems to go something like this: “American imperialism is abhorrent, so naturally we will embrace America’s enemy – Russia – and by extension, Assad as our friends.” Let me be clear: in this case, the enemy of your enemy is not your friend. It is perfectly feasible to recognise that Russia is an imperialist power and serial abuser of human rights without legitimizing America’s terrible track record of imperialism, occupation and human rights abuses.Continue Reading

ANGER AND CONCERN OVER TURKEY’S PREPARATIONS FOR ATTACK

Posted on January 24, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged assad, conflict, Erdogan, foreignpolicy, humanrights, Kurdistan, PKK, Trump, turkey, U.S., waronterror, YSG.

by Gunnar Eigener

Donald Trump’s threats to ‘economically devastate’ Turkey if Kurdish forces are attacked is unlikely to stop an internal war that has been happening for years. Could this be Trump’s red line?

REFUGEE SOLIDARITY IN THE FACE OF THE RISING FAR RIGHT

Posted on August 7, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged activism, Are you Syrious, Calais, Chios, Chris Jarvis, Dublin Convention, Enoch Powell, EU, featured, government, grassroots, Greece, Italy, lobby, migrant, migration, NGO, Owen Jones, populism, pressure, racism, Refugee Rights Europe, refugees, right wing, Shoufu Collective, turkey, uk, volunteer.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

Owen Jones recently pointed out that the far right is now at its strongest since the 1930s. A horrifying reality of today’s populist Europe. These groups have been unfailingly and cynically opportunistic in using terrorist attacks in Europe to galvanize hatred against Muslims, whilst presenting themselves as protecting white European innocents from the depravity of the Qu’ran, or simply as “not racist” concerned citizens who feel that we should help “our own” (read: white) homeless before helping others. This mindset has contributed to the election of far right governments in Poland, Hungary and Italy and demonstrates that we should not view these groups as fringe street-movements – they are effecting political change with horrifying efficiency through influencing voters.

Mainstream media is in on this, of course. As Chris Jarvis wrote in October 2016, the media’s reaction to refugees and migrants has been nothing short of inflammatory. The influence of mistruths presented in the media has led to vilification of refugees and migrants. In our failure to protect vulnerable people who are unable to seek protection in their country of origin, we have failed to learn history’s lesson. Enoch Powell would be proud of us. We should all be fucking ashamed of ourselves.Continue Reading

ON IMMIGRATION 3. THE NEED TO FULLY GLOBALISE WAR

Posted on March 19, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Afghanistan, Afrin, Algeria, arms race, Cambodia, conflict, developing, displacement, DRC, economic migrants, economics, featured, globalisation, immigration, Labour, Laos, Libya, migrants, millennial generation, on immigration, resources, somalia, systemic cause, turkey, uk, Vietnam, war, weapons, West, Yemen.

by Stu Lucy

Reasons for migration come in many forms.The now globalised and fully interconnected 21st century world allows people the capacity to travel great distances in search of work or a better standard of living for themselves. Increasingly though, more and more individuals, mainly from the developing world, are forced into the migrant sphere through no fault of their own. I have already touched on two types of migrant; those coerced by economic situations to move to foreign countries, as well as those unable to sustain themselves in their native environments as a consequence of various forms of climate effects. There is of course another migrant population that find themselves forced to leave everything they held dear behind as a result of more pervasive and damaging spectre: conflict.Continue Reading

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ROMA ARE BEING EXCLUDED AS SCHOOLS IN TURKEY SWITCH TO DISTANCE LEARNING

by Jonathan Lee

SLAUGHTER AND MASS DISPLACEMENT IN IDLIB

ROJAVA, REFUGEES & EU RESPONSIBILITY

ROJAVA: A REVOLUTIONARY VISION UNDER FIRE

WHAT WE CALL A TERRORIST SHOULD APPLY TO POWERFUL STATES AS WELL

THE DEATH OF EUROPE AS IT ONCE WAS

THE ENEMY OF YOUR ENEMY IS NOT YOUR FRIEND: PSEUDO-LEFTISTS, ASSAD & RUSSIA

ANGER AND CONCERN OVER TURKEY’S PREPARATIONS FOR ATTACK

REFUGEE SOLIDARITY IN THE FACE OF THE RISING FAR RIGHT

ON IMMIGRATION 3. THE NEED TO FULLY GLOBALISE WAR

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