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Ouverture de la première conférence de Jineolojî de la FDSN

La ville de Derîk (région de Cizirê, à l’extrême Nord-Est de la Syrie) accueille pendant ces deux journées des 12 et 13 janvier 2018 la première conférence de Jineolojî du Nord-Syrie. Plus de 200 déléguées y sont réunies pour débattre et analyser la situation des femmes dans leur région et envisager la suite du processus […]

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JINEOLOJÎ: Conference dedicated to the science of women in Northern Syria (Day 2)

The first-ever conference of Jineology in Northern Syria, held in the city of Derek, ended on Saturday 13th January. In attendance were hundreds of women of all ethnicities and religions from across Northern Syria, as well as women from all four parts of Kurdistan and across the world. On this second day of the conference,

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JINEOLOJÎ: Conference dedicated to the science of women in Northern Syria (Day 1)

On Friday 12th January, women gathered in the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria in the city of Derek for the first ever conference on Jineology in Northern Syria; the science of women aimed at developing a sociology, and practice behind it, based on truth and equality. Women from every ethnicity and religion of Northern Syria,

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De la modernidad capitalista, hacia la modernidad democrática

Es común en los espacios internacionalistas y grupos de solidaridad con la revolución de Rojava, hablar de confederalismo democrático como el paradigma ideológico del movimiento de liberación de kurdistán. Aunque este concepto ha sido de ayuda para dar a conocer la evolución ideológica del movimiento, queda un poco incompleto, y quizás seria más adecuado hablar

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From capitalist modernity to democratic modernity

It’s common to hear internationalist groups and collectives talk about ‘democratic confederalism’ referred to as the ideological paradigm of the Kurdish Liberation Movement. Despite the fact that this concept has been useful to understand the ideological evolution of the movement, it remains somewhat incomplete, and it may be more appropriate to talk about Democratic Modernity.

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Social Ecology: Communalism against Climate Chaos

The next article was published in ROARmagazine, and is a great inspiration for the ecological works we are working on. Since the 1960s, the theory and praxis of social ecology have helped guide efforts to articulate a radical, counter-systemic ecological outlook with a goal of transforming society’s relationship to non-human nature. For many decades, social

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A Kurdish response to climate change

Conversations with the Kurdish Liberation Movement on ecological society and democratic confederalism. For 4000 years since the breakdown of the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia, almost every major societal collapse has featured five trends: spiralling migration, state collapse, food shortages, epidemic disease and climate change.[1] What makes the present era distinct is that whilst previous collapses

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The resistance goddess Sehid Sara

Today 09.01.2018, it is the fifth anniversary of the deaths of Sehid Sara (Sakine Cansiz), Sehid Ronahi (Leyla Saylemez) and Sehid Rojbin (Fidan Dogan). Sehid Sara is one of the first women and founding member of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party). At a time when it was even harder for women to organize themselves politically

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