Revolution is not a paradise on earth. It is a constant process of change, with obstacles and shortcomings,” Felix Weber, a ...

The past is a deadly weapon.

The economy in Western Kurdistan (Rojava) has been exposed to plunder and exploitation on a large scale by the Syrian state, which controlled the country's entire resources, rendering the community ...

Details have emerged of how women in towns and villages across northern Syria have defied the fierce oppression of President Bashar Al-Assad's Ba'ath regime to come together and create a women's ...

The autonomous region of Rojava, as it exists today, is one of few bright spots – albeit a very bright one – to emerge from the tragedy of the Syrian revolution. David Graeber[1] In the last decades ...

Out of repression has emerged one of the world’s most interesting experiments in democracy. And by democracy, what is meant is not the formal capitalist variety of elections every few years in which ...

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 ...

Six days is how long it took for nearly 300 activists from across Europe to mobilise, organise routes through four countries, ...

Lost in the discussions of Donald Trump’s abrupt announcement of the withdrawal of United States troops from Rojava is the possible fate of the democratic and cooperative experiment of the Syrian ...

Hawzhin Azeez is member of Kobane Reconstruction Board in the largely Kurdish area of northern Syria and a former politics lecturer at Newcastle university. In Rojava, a profoundly democratic and ...

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