A Possible Agreement Between Turkey and the Kurds
If the deal goes through, the Kurds will have achieved linguistic and cultural rights. It remains to be seen how much the economic situation of the ordinary Kurds will improve.
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Meral Cicek interviewed by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation’s Florian Wilde during the World Social Forum in Tunis, translated by Leandros Fischer Meral Cicek (above) is from Cologne and is the chair of...
View ArticleThe Revolution in Rojava
You’d think it would be big news that there’s a liberated area in the Middle East led by socialist-feminists, where people make decisions through local councils and women hold 40 percent of leadership...
View ArticleSpring in Rojava, winter in Rojhelat
Rojava, the Kurdish area in northern Syria, is undergoing (and possibly cementing) a revolution
View ArticleKurdish autonomy between dream and reality
Interview on the Rojava revolution, Öcalan’s leadership role, the position of women in the Kurdish struggle and the PKK
View ArticleThe Winners of Turkey’s National Elections: The Kurds
The Peoples’ Democratic Party obtained 13.1 per cent of the total votes which amounts to about 5.6 million voters
View ArticleKurdish Women’s Radical Self-Defense: Armed and Political
The Kurdish women's resistance operates without hierarchy and domination and is part of larger, societal transformation and liberation
View ArticleMurray Bookchin and the Kurdish resistance
Bookchin’s municipalist ideas, once rejected by communists and anarchists alike, have now come to inspire the Kurdish quest for democratic autonomy
View ArticleFrom Genocide to Resistance: Yazidi Women Fight Back
Having suffered a traumatic genocide, Yazidi women on Mount Sinjar mobilize their autonomous armed and political resistance with the PKK’s philosophy
View ArticleLiberated learning in Rojava
The new women’s science of jineolojî and the revolutionary transformation of education in Rojava, western Kurdistan
View ArticleForget the UN! Meet the Self-Determining Refugees in Kurdistan
Rejecting the victim narrative, PKK-supported refugee camps in Kurdistan have taken control of their fates by creating their own autonomous system
View ArticleRevolution in Rojava: Democratic Confederalism, Gender justice, and Ecology
As a result of these new principles of justice, and new alternative conflict resolution commitments, women and girls are not automatically blamed
View ArticleThoughts on Rojava
Full of admiration, but not without critique: Janet Biehl shares some of her ideas on the Rojava revolution after her recent visits to the region
View ArticleOn Racism, Patriarchy and Corruption in Iraqi Kurdistan
When working in Iraqi Kurdistan, I was struck by the prevalence of regressive attitudes, including racism and sexism
View ArticleThe Flowers of Rojava: A Feminist Revolution in Northern Syria
A talk on the transformation of women’s roles in Rojava as a result of the formation of women’s academies and the revolution’s encouragement of women to become equal participants in all spheres of life
View ArticleTurkey’s Decisive Year
Chaos, violence, and authoritarian rule reign in Turkey. Is there any opening for the Kurdish liberation movement?
View ArticleStories by the Fire
The families behind curtains like these, in camps, or in repurposed or unfinished buildings, have for the time a desperately welcomed measure of security
View ArticleAgriculture and Autonomy in the Middle East
The government of Rojava is democratic and decentralized, with residential communes and local councils giving people autonomy and control over decisions that affect their lives
View ArticleKurdish Women call for a global women’s movement
Kurdish women call on women around the world to come together to build a radical movement for women's liberation
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NATO expands – Kurds betrayed
The Turkish offensive against Kurds in northern Iraq and northern Syria, predicted in this article, may have already begun. On Wednesday (20 July) Turkish shells hit the Iraqi tourist resort of Zakho,...
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Noam Chomsky: Don’t Expect Criminal States to Investigate Their Own Crimes
World-renowned philosopher Noam Chomsky commented on Turkey’s use of chemical weapons against Kurdistan. Chomsky said that the Turkish state would not accept investigations into allegations of the use...
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The Kurdish Feminist Revolution
Around the world, people are chanting ‘Women, Life, Freedom’ in solidarity with the women’s uprising in Iran – dubbing it the ‘first feminist revolution in the world’. Not so, argues Rahila Gupta, as...
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The Flower of Transformation Blooms in Kurdistan
The full blooming of the Flower of Transformation is going to involve difficult, long-term struggles. But what the Kurdish society is trying to achieve can be called a ‘nowtopia’ in the making, and...
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In Bid to Join NATO, Sweden and Finland Back Turkish Repression of Kurds
As Ukrainians face a brutal and ongoing Russian siege, NATO’s July summit has endangered and betrayed Kurdish people, cruelly trading the fate of one occupied and repressed group for another. The most...
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Kurds Will Pay the Price for Sweden’s NATO Deal
Turkey will be dropping its opposition to Sweden joining NATO, the alliance’s secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg announced last week. The news from NATO’s summit in Vilnius was heralded by Joe Biden,...
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UK Police Targeted Me Because I Told The Truth About Turkey’s Attacks On The...
The UK has one of the most draconian detention powers of any country in Europe. British police are able to question anyone at the country’s borders, without the right to silence or any formal charge,...
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For Kurds, the War in Gaza Shows the Need for a Democratic Reordering of the...
For the Kurds, it’s a familiar scene. Jihadist militants, backed by a notorious state sponsor of terrorism, target members of an embattled minority. They run amok, parading and abusing captured women,...
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Unremitting Turkish Attacks Leave Rojava in Peril — and in Need of Solidarity
The future of this experiment is on the line as much of its civilian infrastructure has been destroyed since October. Alongside all the heartbreaking tragedies in the Middle East, a radical alternative...
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Rojava (AANES) | Liberation in Action
This video is a brief inspection of AANES (The Autonomous Administration of Northeast Syria). It is part of a video series wherein I talk about modern day and historical accounts of horizontal and...
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Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao… Hope Comes from the Young for a World-Weary Socialist
An Invitation and a Conundrum! When the announcement and the invitation reached my inbox, I read it in a state of contained excitement. The Academy of Democratic Modernity (ADM) had invited me (and...
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