In 2014, when David Graeber and others began claiming that a genuine anti-capitalist revolution was occurring in Syrian Kurdistan, the healthy reaction was scepticism. After all, the initiators of ...

SO HERE ARE SOME CRITICAL QUESTIONS FOR SUPPORTERS OF THE ROJAVA REVOLUTION: Women will be at the forefront of any genuine social revolution and women’s involvement in the Rojava revolution is ...

There is a real sense of a people responding to the facts on the ground with the few resources they have to hand. Rojava’s frontline of the war against ISIS is constantly shifting – at the moment in a ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Details have emerged of how women in towns and villages across northern ...

This week we’re sharing two interviews related to ongoing conflicts between the Syrian transitional government alongside the Turkish backed so-called Syrian National Army militia, which has overlaps ...

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 ...

Scores of military minded westerners have flocked to the Kurdish-dominated enclave of Syria in recent years, armed and ready to defeat the jihadist threat that is the Islamic State (ISIS). But while ...

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 ...

Celebration of the International Women’s Day in Rojava in 2021. (Photo courtesy of the Rojava Information Center) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive ...

Correction/clarification: Murray Bookchin was born in 1921 and was Janet Biehl's longtime partner. A previous version of this story misstated his birth year and in one instance lacked attribution to ...