Jenni Keasden and Natalia Szarek

Worth Fighting For: Bringing the Rojava Revolution Home

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This is the story of two internationalist volunteers who followed in the footsteps of our friend and comrade Anna Campbell and became part of the Rojava revolution. Anna left her home in England and travelled to northeast Syria to join the women fighters of the YPJ in the battle against the Islamic State. One year later, she was killed in the Turkish invasion of Afrin. Between us we spent another three years there, working alongside Kurdish revolutionaries and internationalists from around the world, and getting to know the movement that our dear friend decided was worth fighting for.

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Jenni Keasden and Natalia Szarek

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Chapter 1: Beginning - Joining the Rojava Revolution 15.04.2025 23:19

Chapter 1: Beginning - Joining the Rojava Revolution

Background 15.04.2025 3:27

Kurdistan is a land that has been divided. The British and French empires chopped up the region, and put sections under the control of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria inthe early 20th century. Kurdish resistance to oppression runs back even further and continues to this day. The Kurdish region of Syria (known as Rojava ) caught the attention of the world after the uprisings across the Arab world in 2...

Preface 15.04.2025 3:37

Throughout our lives, we write to make sense of the world around us. Sometimes it’s love letters to friends in other cities. Sometimes it’s poetry in the early hours of the morning, urgent blog posts and social media updates to tell people what’s happening, journal entries of reflection and release. Sometimes writing is uncompromising as it looks you in the eye, and sometimes the truth is subtle a...

Title and Dedication 15.04.2025 0:45

Title, Information and Dedication