This article was published in The Region “Everything was green before,” sighs a young peasant from Sawidiyah, a small Syrian village at the banks of the Euphrates near Tabqa’s massive dam. “Now it should be the season, but the crops are lost, because of Turkey cuts the water, preventing the production of electricity. For us …
The Euphrates: Turkey’s tool of destabilisation of Rojava Read More »
The next article was published on RoarMag Bookchin’s municipalist ideas, once rejected by communists and anarchists alike, have now come to inspire the Kurdish quest for democratic autonomy. The introduction to the new book The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy (Verso, 2015), explains how Murray Bookchin – born to Russian …
19 years ago, on February 15 1999, the international plot organized by several intelligence services of different nation-states captured Abdullah Ocalan. Today we want to remember him and the important tasks and thoughts he put in practice, creating the Kurdish Liberation Movement and developing the ideas that today are leading the Rojava Revolution “How to …
“How to live, what to do, where to start?” by Abdullah Öcalan Read More »
Self-defence or self-preservation has often been reduced to its militaristic dimension. Although the latter tops the list in the hierarchy of status attached to self-defence, it would, however, be too simplistic to overlook its other dimensions. This paper examines four major dimensions of self-defence: natural, cultural, economic, and militaristic ones. The core of my argument …
Existence and self-defence are two sides of the same coin Read More »
Picture: the people of the municipality of the Democratic Self Administration of Afrin ready to defend their land Over the last decades, especially in the 1920s and 1930s, successive Turkish governments repressed many Kurdish uprisings, denied the existence of the Kurds and followed a policy of denial, marginalisation and exclusion of the Kurds. However, with …
Statement of the Democratic Self-administration on Afrin attacks Read More »
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 …
Social Ecology: Communalism against Climate Chaos Read More »
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 …
In 1917, the October Revolution in Russia took place. Today, one hundred years later in October 2017, the happy news of the liberation of the capital of the Islamic State has spread all over the world. As one hundred years ago the Soviet Revolution saw hope for freedom rise on the horizon, today also the …