On Saturday, 200,000 mostly young people gathered in over 20 cities in Germany to protest against state racism and the murder of George Floyd. In Munich alone, 30,000 people joined demonstrations. In Hamburg and Berlin, demonstrators were violently attacked by the police.

The situation in Northern Kurdistan continues to escalate: the Kurdish cities are under military siege. The Turkish state murders to seize control. The Kurdish youth however resists heroically. What are the perspectives for the resistance in Northern Kurdistan?

The 37th Anniversary of the founding congress of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) took place recently in Turkey. On November 27, 1978, the party’s founding resolution emerged at a secret meeting of 25 left activists in Fîs, near the Kurdish town of Amed.