Members of Kongra Star, the women’s umbrella organisation in Rojava, northern Syria. This is the obvious question to ask - but an extremely difficult one to answer, especially when the situation is as ...

With images of chaos, conflict, and a seemingly endless parade of horrors dominating the mainstream media, the image of Syria that dominates the popular mind is a kind of hell on earth. But Syria ...

Rojava, the Kurdish-majority liberated zone in northern Syria, is the location of a unique experiment in grassroots, participatory democracy. It is undergoing a profound social revolution that ...

An international statement signed by Bandilang Itim. We will defend the social revolution in Rojava with all our power. The bloodthirsty imperialist interventions can be suspended only by the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kobanî, in the de facto autonomous region of northern Syria known as Rojava, was at the forefront of the battle against Islamic ...

The Kurdish people are an oppressed nationality without a state, whose homeland is currently divided between five countries in the Middle East. Despite this, the left-wing Kurdish movement in Syria’s ...

Out of repression has emerged one of the world’s most interesting experiments in democracy. And by democracy, what is meant is not the formal capitalist variety of elections every few years in which ...

In 2012 the PYD, a Kurdish political party connected to the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) based in Turkey, took advantage of the spiralling chaos of the Syrian civil war to eject regime forces from ...

A look at the egalitarian and ecofeminist Rojava revolution in the Kurdish north of Syria. Nonetheless, it is most necessary to demonstrate the hypocrisy of such claims and voices, and to situate the ...

An Islamic State tank beneath a statue of a Kurdish fighter in Kobanî, northern Syria. Elise Marie Boyle Espinosa, Author provided Kobanî, in the de facto autonomous region of northern Syria known as ...