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 libcom.org – Views YPG-Training camp for international volunteers, canton of Cizîrê, April 12, 2017 This blog is the travel notebook of a libertarian communist who decided to join the revolution in Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava). I will try to hold it up do date (as far as practicable, […]
by Black Rose Anarchist Federation We members of the Black Rose/Rosa Negra Rojava-Syria Solidarity Committee (BRRN-RSSC) in the strongest terms condemn the Bashar al-Assad regime and its Russian and Iranian allies for their recent conquest of Eastern Aleppo. This brutal defeat of the Aleppo rebels, who were both […]
by Janet Biehl/ROAR Second Wave feminism, once it erupted in the late 1960s, called out misogyny where it came into view. Breathtakingly, it insisted on recognizing human rights for all women everywhere. But today many Western feminists hesitate to speak in such bold terms. Wrestling with the legacy […]
by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn/Love and Rage Another world is possible. This is the simple yet piercing slogan of the World Social Forum (WSF) which is currently underway in Montreal. The WSF is the nexus of social movements, activists and resistance the world over. It has been called “the […]
by CIC/Guest The largely unknown until recently Kurdish city of Kobane managed to attract the attention of the world with its fierce resistance[i] against the invasion of the Islamic State and became an international symbol, compared to the defence of Madrid and Stalingrad. The bravery and heroism of […]
by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn / Love and Rage Urged on by local activist John Furman in the middle of his speech, the gathered protesters started chanting, “No borders! No fences! No borders! No fences!” The words echoed throughout Utica’s historic Oneida Square on an unseasonably warm evening on […]
by Bruno Lima Rocha/Kurdish Question Introduction to this particular issue In this part I will expose some basic historical information about the anarchist political organisation model and in the end, make a comparison between these experiences and the nowadays mission of the political organisation that intends to be […]
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 […]
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