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From the frontlines against ISIS to ‘special surveillance’ by the Italian government
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From the frontlines against ISIS to ‘special surveillance’ by the Italian government

It has been a year since the Italian anti-ISIS fighter Maria Edgarda ‘Eddi’ Marcucci was sentenced to government ‘special surveillance’ – with a law unused since the Mussolini era. Continue reading From the frontlines against ISIS to ‘special surveillance’ by the Italian government

‘I was already a feminist, but the YPJ gave me the tools to survive as a woman’: Exclusive look at Eddi Marcucci’s journey from Italy to Syria
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‘I was already a feminist, but the YPJ gave me the tools to survive as a woman’: Exclusive look at Eddi Marcucci’s journey from Italy to Syria

YPJ International Brigade fighter Eddi Marcucci recalls how the fighting in Syria helped her see through the capitalism myth and the emotional struggles of living through war. Continue reading ‘I was already a feminist, but the YPJ gave me the tools to survive as a woman’: Exclusive look at Eddi Marcucci’s journey from Italy to Syria