Tag: Rojava

Dilar Dirik promotes Women’s Revolution in Rojava

The Women’s Revolution in Rojava: Defeating Fascism by Constructing an Alternative Society

by Dilar Dirik

This piece is a book chapter in “A Small Key Can Open A Large Door: The Rojava Revolution” by Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness (Ed.), March 2015 (Combustion Books).24795b9d45550d61cc9f6bee7a09a629_LThe resistance against the Islamic State in Kobanê has woken the world to the cause of Kurdish women. Typical of the media’s myopia, instead of considering the radical implications of women taking up arms in a patriarchal society – especially against a group that systematically rapes and sells women as sex-slaves – even fashion magazines appropriate the struggle of Kurdish women for their own sensationalist purposes today. Continue reading “Dilar Dirik promotes Women’s Revolution in Rojava”

Explicación del Anarquismo Municipal: La Alternativa Práctica de Rojava

 La municipalización de la Economía

por Janet Biehl.. traducción ..The Freerojava-revolutionA medida que la revolución Rojava continúa, la naturaleza de su economía ha sido muy discutido. Como he escrito anteriormente, Rojava aspira a una economía social basada en las cooperativas. En las últimas semanas, varias personas me han preguntado por las ideas de Murray Bookchin sobre la economía: ¿cuáles son los aspectos económicos del municipalismo libertario? He creado un resumen de su pensamiento aquí, sobre la base de los recursos enumerados al final de este artículo. -Janet Biehl

Anarquía en Rojava: Una revolución libertaria en el Medio Oriente desde subMedia.tv en Vimeo.

En una economía capitalista, los medios de producción, la industria y al igual que la tierra, las materias primas y acabadas, la riqueza financiera se concentran en manos privadas. La alternativa es una economía social, en el que la propiedad de dichos bienes, en todo o en parte, se desplaza a la sociedad en su conjunto….. Continue reading “Explicación del Anarquismo Municipal: La Alternativa Práctica de Rojava”

Municipal Anarchy Explained.. the Practical Rojava Alternative

Municipalization of the Economy

As the Rojava revolution continues, the nature of its economy has been much discussed. As I have written previously, Rojava aspires to a social economy based on cooperatives. In recent weeks, several people have asked me for Murray Bookchin’s ideas about the economy: what are the economic aspects of libertarian municipalism? I’ve put together a summary of his thinking here, based on the sources listed at the end of this article. –Janet Biehl

More Anarchists join Rojava Revolution as ISIS retreats

Rojava RevolutionThe Kurdish people are a nation without a State, living in Iraq, Syria, Iran and Turkey. Resisting heavy repression in Turkey they formed the PKK, which was a strict top-down  Stalinist type guerilla movement for many years.

THEN THEIR IMPRISONED LEADER, ABDULLAH ÖCALAN, READ BOOKS BY THE US ANARCHIST MURRAY BOOKCHIN AND CHANGED HIS VIEWS, AND THE PKK EAGERLY ADAPTED THEMSELVES.

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