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Rojava: “The solution is the decentralisation of power”
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Turkey blocks People’s Caravan to Kobane
Sixteen arrested as main caravan regroups in Greece (interview) ~ Gabriel Fonten ~ Sixteen members of the People’s Caravan to Kobane, who w…
Thousands march for Rojava in London
Calls for international solidarity as assault on Kurdish autonomy and rights intensifies ~Blade Runner~ Between 20,000 and 30,000 Kurds and support…
Anarchist News Review: “World order” in tatters and Rojava under attack
Mike and Andy talk through some of the implications of the “world order’s collapse,” as Canada’s PM puts it, the new assaul…
Repression at WEF and Rojava protests
Action medics report from recent demos in Switzerland ~ Sanitätskollektiv Zürich ~ Between 17 and 20 January 2026, Sanitätskollektiv Zürich pro…
State integration forced on Rojava
Islamist attacks and great-power manoeuvres place the revolution in existential threat ~ Blade Runner ~ Recent weeks’ clashes between Syrian …
PKK dissolution: The long goodbye to vanguardism
The move reflects a broader strategic vision embracing gender liberation, pluralism, and local democracy ~ Blade Runner ~ The formal announcement o…
Anarchist News Review: Labour mirrors Trump and the US gets blunt over geopolitics
Uri Gordon hosts a Freedom discussion on why it is Labour has accelerated its rightwards journey on topics as wideranging as defence, migration and…
Dreams within defeats: The Kurdish quest for meaning
“pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.”
Beyond and against homogenisation: Advancing diversity through Democratic Confederalism
It is not homogeneity that brings people together but understanding and empowerment.
Sixth anniversary of Turkey’s war against Afrin
Many are still living in refugee camps in Sheba, close to Afrin, hoping to one day return to a liberated homeland.
Worth fighting for: Bringing the Rojava revolution home
It’s not surprising that the most precious thing we brought back from Rojava was a sense of hope.
Ongoing: Turkey launches Christmas Day attack on North and East Syria
First reports already spoke of 13 wounded and 8 martyred
Enhancing diverse democracy: NE Syria’s new Social Contract
Like Rousseau’s theoretical proposal, the real-world ‘social contract’ based on Öcalan’s ideas is, in many ways, an attempt to reckon with…
Interview: Democracy vs Capitalism in the Middle East
Coexistence has not always been exclusively peaceful, but the genocidal politics of nowadays fascist regimes are something new.
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