Participation is the essence of communal life, and this is what the people of Halanc village near Kobani have embodied by becoming medically independent. Since activating the communes in Kobanî [Kantona Kobaniyê] once again by liberating it from Daesh [the Islamic State group] in 2016, people have started to self-organise by working in committees. These are the foundation
Besides the bad news of Afrin, in March we continued working on our ecological project to Make Rojava Green Again. With the rains of winter everything become green, and the firsts days of march have the perfect weather for continue planting shoots and open new gardens. We are planting different kind of trees and starting
A Cooperation Jackson dialogue with Ercan Ayboga, Co-Author of “Revolution in Rojava”, an activist of the Mesopotamian Ecology Movement Come learn about the ideological, political and programmatic similarities between the Jackson-Kush Plan and the radical democratic movement in Jackson, Mississippi and the Charter of the Social Contract, which serves as the Constitution of the Rojava
Communes have been working in Afrin Canton to organise society by supporting co-operation among the people and encouraging them to help and trust one another, especially during the harsh circumstances that the region is going through. Communes have now been established in every street and area, and they are working overtime to help people. Many houses are destroyed
There are now 87 co-operative societies in Jazira Canton [Kantona Cizîrê / Cezîre], with 30,000 participants [members] between them. The co-operatives provide work opportunities to all the participants, some of whom work in turns by taking three month shifts. The co-operatives have been playing a big role in providing supplies for the markets, stabilising prices and overcoming monopoly. In Qamishlo
After launch our campaign, we continued our works for make Rojava green again, with all the energy and ideas that people from all around the world start to share with us. After the discussions with the ecology committee, the visits to the Hayaka natural reserve and the tree nursery [check the galleries from before], we
Activists in the Germiyan region have launched a campaign to boycott Turkish goods, and say Turkish goods should be banned throughout Başurê Kurdistan [North Kurdistan / East Turkey]. As reactions rise against the invading Turkish state’s attacks against Başurê Kurdistan, a campaign has been launched to boycott Turkish goods. Groups of activists came together in
February 3-5, 2012, a a conference was organized in Hamburg, Germany. The theme was “Challenging Capitalist Modernity: Alternative concepts and the Kurdish Question.” The following text was delivered as a speech to the conference. Listen to the speech here I am honored to be here and to contribute to the discussions about alternative quests to
The municipality of the town of Al-Mansura in the eastern part of Tabqa [Tebqa / Al-Thawrah] has started a market project called Al-Rawda in the part of the town near the education centre. The Technical Committee in the town presented this initiative four months ago, based on the principles of co-operation. Their aim was to regulate the
The campaign ‘Make Rojava Green Again’ was officially launched on February 2018, but we were working in different things before. It was mostly work of research, meetings, discussions, etc, but also some practical work. Here we share a gallery of the works of the ecology committee of the internationalist commune before to launch the campaign.
Mersin – Making assessments regarding the economic crisis that has ensued from the interior and foreign policies of the government, Associate Professor Selim Çakmaklı argues that “The classes that control production also control politics. The antidote to this anti-democratic rule is the workers’ cooperative.” Associate Professor Selim Çakmaklı, who was discharged from Mersin University by decree
Kurdish campaigners have called for a boycott of tourism towards Turkey, citing a number of reasons as to why Turkey should not be visited, including growing autocracy, a lack of space for dissent, Turkey’s persecution of Kurds, its attacks on the free press, and its links with various jihadist groups in Syria. Just this year,
