And Against Them, Only Autonomous Resistance by Crimethinc / Global Trump’s betrayal of Rojava shows the symbiotic relationship between far-right nationalist tyrants like Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Jihadist groups like ISIS. It also drives home that we cannot depend on any state, party, […]
Islamist militants – with Turkish army support – are wreaking havoc with a pocket of peace and sanity in the Syrian war by David Graeber / Analysis and Opinion Three years ago the world watched a ragtag band of men and women fighters in the Syrian town of Kobane, […]
Turkish-backed rebels toppled Kurdish monuments as many fear ethnic cleansing of the city’s population. by TeleSur / Global The Turkish army and its allies seized the northern Syrian city of Afrin from the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) Sunday morning after nearly two months since the Turkish “Olive […]
by Dilar Dirik/Guest We publish this letter here on Love and Rage from Dilar Dirik, a committed activist in the Kurdish liberation struggle. It is an open letter in response to the recent publication of a racist cartoon depicting Alan Kurdî in the French magazine Charlie Hebdo. Kurdî […]
by Petar Stanchev/Kurdish Question Despite being continents apart, the struggles of the Kurds and Zapatistas share a similar purpose: to resist capitalism, liberate women and build autonomy. Power to the people can only be put into practice when the power exercised by social elites is dissolved into the […]
by MV Freedom School Derek Scarlino and Brendan Dunn will give a talk and lead a discussion about the events in the fight against ISIS in Kobane, Syria, and the Kurdish social revolution. The Kurds are a people who have for years been denied a nation to call their […]