American support for Syria’s subjugation of “Rojava”—the autonomous Kurdish-led administration in its northeast—is regarded ...

Revolution is not a paradise on earth. It is a constant process of change, with obstacles and shortcomings,” Felix Weber, a ...

This article was emailed to me (boomerang) by the author, Hüseyin Civan, a member of the DAF (Devrimci Anarşist Faaliyet), an anarchist group in Turkey. He'd previously requested that I share it on ...

Rojava is shifting from revolutionary autonomy toward conditional integration.

Rojava did not fall due to a covert agreement among global powers, as claimed. Instead, its collapse was largely self-inflicted. Since the collapse of Rojava, which resulted in the loss of sovereignty ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A senior official from the ruling Democratic Union Party (PYD) said that the Kurdish region of northeast Syria (Rojava) will continue to exist despite political pressure, ...

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 ...

Mazloum Abdi discusses why the international community’s stance toward Rojava has changed, the details behind the January 29 agreement with Damascus, whether the U.S. betrayed the Kurds, and Kurdish ...

The Kurdish people have sacrificed 13,000 lives in the fight against ISIS. Progressives should support their effort to build a secure base for direct democracy, feminism, and pluralism. SDF soldiers ...

We’re witnessing a full-scale collapse in the journalism industry at the very moment accountability is needed most. Common Dreams remains one of the few nonprofit news outlets still willing and able ...

In 2014, the northeastern Syrian city of Kobanî was at the forefront of the battle against Islamic State (IS). IS had gained control of large swaths of territory across Syria and Iraq, including in ...

Six days is how long it took for nearly 300 activists from across Europe to mobilise, organise routes through four countries, ...