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Building autonomy in Turkey and Kurdistan: an interview with Revolutionary...
by Corporate WatchIn May this year, Corporate Watch researchers travelled to Turkey and Kurdistan to investigate the companies supplying military equipment to the Turkish police and army. We talked to...
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Film Review of BBC Our World's "Rojava: Syria's Secret Revolution"
by Bongani Mavundla.The spectre of Anarchism haunts all societies that are riddled with turmoil, economic exploitation and political oppression, especially after the defeat of the Spanish revolution...
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What Can Western Feminists Learn From The Women’s Struggle In Rojava?
1st October 2015by Stefan Bertram-Lee Kurdish Question October 1, 20151. We must build women’s self defence units2. The Revolution must smile3. Liberalism is death4. Women’s Liberation is...
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Power to the people: a Syrian experiment in democracy
Perhaps the last place you would expect to find a thriving experiment in direct democracy is Syria. But something radical is happening, little noticed, in the eastern reaches of that fractured country,...
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Rojava: Interview With Environmentalist Anarchist Fighting in Kobane
by Libertarian International BrigadesThe following article is an interview with an environmentalist, vegetarian anarchist from Turkey who is a member of Sosyal isyan (Social Insurrection) fighting as...
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A Radical Experiment in Democracy Is Happening in Northern Syria. Americans...
By Michelle Goldberg SlateThere is an astonishing story in Sunday’s New York Times about Rojava, a Kurdish region in Northern Syria that’s ruled by militant feminist anarchists. Rojava’s constitution...
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Rojava: Paradoxes of a Liberatory Ideology
by Janet Biehl 1st December 2015 Kurdish QuestionSince 2014 solidarity activists, independent leftists, and others have been crossing the Tigris to study the developments in Rojava, the independent...
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From National Liberation to Autonomy: The Trajectory of the PKK
By Ramor Ryan TeleSur December 2, 2015Paul White’s new book, “The PKK – Coming Down from the Mountains,” is a useful critical analysis exploring the group’s history and ideological evolution.Kurdish...
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America's Best Allies Against ISIS Are Inspired By A Bronx-Born Anarchist
Akbar Shahid Ahmed 12/18/2015 Foreign Affairs Reporter, The Huffington PostISTANBUL -- Last fall, Islamic State fighters launched a coordinated, large-scale assault on the Kurdish town of Kobani on...
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Rojava 2015 – A Review
The following article was written by somebody who currently resides in Rojava for the Crimethinc Ex-Worker podcast’s review of the year 2015…Dear friends,A friend told us you‘re collecting impressions...
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This One Small Book Explains the Inspiring Rojava Revolution
by Steve RushtonOccupy.comRojava’s social revolution deserves more global attention and solidarity. The Kurdish autonomous region in Northern Syria is a working experiment creating a society based on...
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Our attitude towards Rojava must be critical solidarity
Previously I have written so many articles in Kurdish and English about Rojava but this one is different. In this article I am not talking about the positive sides of Rojava only, in fact, I cover the...
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A Commune in Rojava?
by Alex de Jong New Politics Winter 2016 Vol:XV-4 Whole #: 60The siege of Kobani by Islamic State (ISIS) brought worldwide attention to the Syrian Kurdish PYD (Partiya Yekîtiya Demokrat, Democratic...
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Rojava: Democracy and Commune
CrimethInc blog May 19th, 2016In the latest installment in our series exploring the anarchist critique of democracy, guest author Paul Z. Simons offers us a meditation on revolutionary forms of...
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The 'Rojava Revolution' in Syrian Kurdistan: A Model of Development for the...
by Can Cemgil and Clemens Hoffmann, first published on IDS Bulletin website 7/8/2016Kurdish QuestionAbstractAs the civil war in Syria continues, in the territory of Rojava – in Kurdish, 'the West'– the...
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In retaking Mosul, YPG/J and the Guerrillas must be aware of the hidden agenda
by Zaher Baher Anarkismo.net August 4, 2016 The plan and conspiracy between Turkey, Qatar and The Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) against Rojava will never end. Documents disclosed by Wikileaks...
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When Women Lead the Revolution
By Elia Gran September 19, 2016 The Indypendent, Issue #217The Syrian civil war has produced a catalogue of horrors – cities bombed into rubble, the rise of ISIS, refugees fleeing across open seas on...
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The revolution in Rojava: an eyewitness account
by Janet Biehl ROAR Magazine October 20, 2016For decades, three million Syrian Kurds lived under severe repression by the Assad regime, their identity denied and access to education and jobs refused....
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Syrian Kurds rebuilding Kobani from rubble
by Fehim Taştekin Al-MonitorKOBANI, Syria — I recently stayed overnight in Serekaniye and awoke to unusual sounds at about 5 a.m. I looked out and saw a group of Asayish (local Kurdish police), both...
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‘A real revolution is a mass of contradictions’: Interview with a Rojava...
by Rojava Solidarity Cluster Novara MediaIn October 2016 Peter Loo travelled to Rojava* to volunteer as an English teacher and participate in work within civil society – the outcome of over 14 months...
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