The resilience of the Kurdish people who fight for their survival and autonomy serves as a testament to the enduring battle against colonialism, fundamentalism, and authoritarianism in this region and ...
In 2014, when David Graeber and others began claiming that a genuine anti-capitalist revolution was occurring in Syrian Kurdistan, the healthy reaction was scepticism. After all, the initiators of ...
Jo Magpie. All rights reserved.Sometime in early February, I was excited to receive an invitation to participate in a women's delegation to Rojava, the de-facto ...
Error occured during this request! Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdish-led administration of northeast Syria (Rojava) on Sunday denounced ...
Rojava, the Kurdish-majority liberated zone in northern Syria, is the location of a unique experiment in grassroots, participatory democracy. It is undergoing a profound social revolution that ...
At a time when we are trying to heal the deep wounds and bleeding relationship between Turks and Kurds left from the 20th century, stop reopening those wounds and deepening the pain. There was a ...
The Kurdish people have sacrificed 13,000 lives in the fight against ISIS. Progressives should support their effort to build a secure base for direct democracy, feminism, and pluralism. SDF soldiers ...
Power vacuum left by the war has allowed Kurds to create a secular, multicultural community As world leaders grapple with how to end the Syrian war, most people in the west are struggling to look ...
Rahila Gupta on why Turkey is encroaching on Rojava, an autonomous democratic commune fighting on the frontlines against ISIS. Kurdish YPJ fighters embrace in Afrin, a city now occupied by Turkey ...
The silhouette of a hand indicates a “Victory” sign behind a Kurdish flag in Kobane, Syria, in February 2015.(Photo by Antonio Pampliega / picture-alliance / dpa / AP Images) Turkish armed forces have ...
Members of Kongra Star, the women’s umbrella organisation in Rojava, northern Syria. This is the obvious question to ask - but an extremely difficult one to answer, especially when the situation is as ...
Turkish attack on Syria endangers a remarkable democratic experiment by the Kurds. Turkey’s attack on Kurdish-run territory in northern Syria will likely snuff out a radical experiment in ...