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Rojava is our future – building an alternative in the midst of the ecological crisis

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In the midst of an ecological crisis that shows us more and more every day that our survival on this planet is in danger, between the historic rivers Euphrates and Tigris, a revolution based on social-ecology, democracy and women’s liberation is progressing. It is fighting to defend life in the region and to build an […]

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Jineoloji: The science of women’s liberation in the Kurdish movement

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The next article of Marcel Cartier was published on Kurdish Question in two parts (1 and 2) on june 2016 After the first week I spent in northern Syria had come and gone, a friend of mine in the United States sent me an animated text message to check up on me: ‘Yo! How’s it

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Why Jineolojî? Re-Constructing the Sciences towards a Communal and Free Life

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Gönül Kaya is a journalist and representative of the Kurdish women’s movement. This article is the transcript of her speech at the Jineolojî Conference in March 2014 in Cologne, Germany. Why Jineolojî? Re-Constructing the Sciences towards a Communal and Free Life The Free Women’s Movement of Kurdistan evaluates jineolojî as an important step in its

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Feminist pacifism or passive-ism?

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The next article of Dilar Dirik was published in OpenDemocracy the  7 of march of 2017 Tomorrow is International Women’s Day. In the face of increasing femicide, sexual violence and rape culture, we need to confront the question of women’s self-defence.  When some white women celebrate the non-violence of women’s marches against Trump and then

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Kurdish Women’s Radical Self-Defense: Armed and Political

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This article of Dilar Dirik was published in TeleSur the 7 july 2015 The Kurdish women’s resistance operates without hierarchy and domination and is part of larger, societal transformation and liberation. The world’s powerful institutions operate through the state-structure, which has the ultimate monopoly on decision-making, economy, and the use of force. At the same

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A new form of international solidarity

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Thoughts about democratic autonomy vs. nation state, by Duran Kalkan, member of the executive council of KCK in an interview with Kurdistan Report How can we understand democratic autonomy or democratic confederalism? Is it a system that is regionally specific and therefore only able to address the Kurdish population? I can explain the democratic autonomy

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