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"We can say that Kurdish women led the Rojava revolution.
[For more on the struggle of the Kurdish people, click HERE.]
November 10, 2014 -- Tenk, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- Saleh Muslim Mohamed (pictured), co-president of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) representing the independent communities of Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan) and its armed wings, the People’s Defence Units (YPG) and Women’s Defence Units (YPJ), visited the Netherlands. Muslim spoke about the fight of Rojava against the Islamic State (ISIS) and the development of democratic autonomy during the Rojava revolution. Jonas Staal interviewed him afterwards.
"A YPJ fighter (right) next to a very similar picture of a female fighter in the Spanish revolution in the 1930s.
"At least a third of the defence forces of Rojava are female. They are in the frontlines and in the command.
