NEWS CENTER – German internationalist Ciyager Şiyar has been active in the internationalist commune in Rojava (north-east Syria) for seven months and spoke to our news agency about the reasons why he came to Rojava. He tells of his fascination when he heard about the revolution in Roajva and how he decided to see the revolution with his own eyes. Wanting to be a part of it. He talks about the work in the Internationalist Commune and the questions he asked himself in Europe and to which he slowly, slowly finds answers in the Commune.
Ciyager Şiyar told our news agency the following:
“My name is Ciyager Şiyar, I have been in the Internationalist Commune for seven months. I came to Rojava because in our times today Rojava is the revolution worldwide. Rojava shows the hope that so many people have is justified. That it is possible to liberate society and live a life based on women’s liberation and ecology, away from capitalist modernity.
Rojava has occupied me for years, the revolution in Kurdistan has occupied me and after some thinking back and forth, after some experiences in Germany I decided that I want to come here, that I want to see it with my own eyes. Participate in becoming part of the works in the revolution. Not just talking about it, not just discussing it, but actually seeing it with your own eyes. To make a contribution yourself and to think about which way we want to go, what kind of life we want to lead.
Is life and freedom so important to us that we are willing to organize ourselves and what can that look like? What difficulties do we have with the life we lead in Europe? What is stopping us, what is stopping us in our personalities? Where can the system be seen? What keeps us thinking only of ourselves? Falling into trivialities again and again and not having the opportunity to live collectively, although we try again and again?
These are questions that brought me to come here to the Internationalist Commune and here it is possible to discuss these questions. To see what are the things that influence us. How does the capitalist system and liberalism as the ideology of the system influence us. How does that affect how we feel, how we think, how we interact with one another. Here we can slowly, slowly make experiences with each other. Exchange our experiences from Europe and the countries we come from and with the methods that are used here in Rojava we are slowly approaching a solution. See what our personality really is.
What really is our core besides what the system has made of us. The core of the after revolution that strives for freedom. That’s what we’re working on here. At the same time, of course, we also try to make the revolution here in Rojava tangible for others. To show others how society fights for self-government here. What the resistance against the attacks of Turkish fascism looks like. There is something very, very nice about these works, as well as living together here, getting to know society better and better. This creates a good basis for learning the language, getting to know the culture better and laying a basis for taking part in this revolution, and I cordially invite you to do so.”
