Şehîd Tekoşer, Lorenzo Orsetti, have become an example for many of us. He carved himself a place in the front lines of the revolution, and he will always have a place in our hearts. His commitment proved to our kurdish and arab comrades that internationalists stand shoulder to shoulder with them in the fight for a free life. His sacrifice became a painful loss, a reminder of the risks we take when we struggle.
More than 12000 comrades gave their life in the war against the islamic state, against the theocratic fascism of the caliphate. He is one of them. After his sacrifice, many Italian media and even politicians praised him as a hero. But too often that same mainstream media and some of those politicians support the political repression and the judicial punishments of those who followed the same path, the partisan path. They try to simplify his struggle as the Italian who fought ISIS, not looking at the anarchist ideas that motivated such a decision.
When he was alive, as many of us, he experienced in flesh the injustice of this system. He knew very well about the oppressions that forced us to chose such a revolutionary path. The hardships we suffer under capitalism, surviving the alienating reality of working for someone else profit, brought him to reject the inherent injustice of our society. He came to Rojava to find an alternative, to learn and to defend of this revolution, to become a drop of the storm that is coming. For him, fighting in the front lines against ISIS was nothing more and nothing less than a continuation of his anarchist militancy, putting in practice its principles of international solidarity, mutual aid and people’s self-defense.
In the 6th anniversary of his sacrifice, we want to honor him and to extend our warm greetings to his family and friends. Even if today we can not be present with you all, his comrades and those who commemorate him today, you can be sure that we grieve with you. We mourn him, we remember him, and his memory give as strength to we carry on with his revolutionary struggle, with our revolutionary struggle. He gave us all he got, we owe him this and much more.
To remember is to struggle,
Şehîd namirin!
Têkoşîna Anarşîst
March 2025