The Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Hasakah [Hesekê / Hesîçe / Al-Hasakah] has started building the Bulgur Factory Cooperative. The daily production capacity will be 20 tons. There are already 700 members, and the door is still open for people to participate in the project, which will start operating at the beginning of November. Since
The Economic Committee has formed a syndicate for the owners of poultry farms in the region of Manbij [Minbic / Minbij] and its adjacent villages. This happened during a meeting in the lecture hall of Manbij Youth, which by many people attended. The attendees discussed issues connected to the poultry farmers and how to secure their needs
The July 19th Revolution, whose spark started in Kobanî [Kobanê / Ayn al-Arab] in 2012, soon echoing in the region and the world, has achieved considerable victories on the military, political, and social levels during the last five years ─ achieving unique progress in leading the community towards democracy and federalism, perceived by observers as the
DAVID GRAEBER: I was in Syria once. I was in southern Turkey. I was in Iraq. I was in a variety of different areas within the Kurdish territories that are experimenting with direct democracy. Interviewer: Can you tell me about what brought you there, and certainly from the very beginning? DAVID GRAEBER: It was less
Today, the co-chair of the Executive Council – the Democratic Civil Administration of the city of Manbij and its countryside, Zainab Qanbar, and her deputy, Jamila Ahmed, met at the Euphrates Hospital in Manbij with the female medical staff, to learn about the progress of work and the problems they face. During the meeting, the
Read the full article here. As part of the indiscriminate military conduct of the state, electricity had been cut off in the area of Sur under curfew, most of the shops and bakeries were closed and water and food supplies were running out. Similar things, even graver, were reported from all other cities where curfews
The First Women’s Economy Conference of North Syria made it’s final statement, which included a number of important decisions. https://youtu.be/QXCF3zGx5uI The statement was announced in front of Kongreya Star’s headquarters in the Al-Gharby neighbourhood of Qamishlo [Qamişlo / Qamishli / Al-Qamishli], and it was attended by members of Kongreya Star and cooperative societies; many of them
The Rojava self-administration in the Cizire [Jazira] canton in northern Syria has started to implement a tax income law to support public services in the region, local sources reported. The tax income will go to support institutions and public services in Cizire canton–Hasakah [Hesekê] province. According to the pro-Rojava administration news agency ANHA, the tax income will
QAMISHLO – In Rojava, women, who are the pioneers of life, are making significant achievements in the field of economy. While many cooperatives have been opened with projects built by Kongreya Star Economy Committee, women form the communal economy by taking their places in working life as part of these cooperatives. Being the pioneers of
Bakur [North Kurdistan / East Turkey] – After Yıldız Çetin and Zeki Yıldız, the Democratic Regions Party (DBP) co-Mayors of Payîzawa (Gürpınar), were, like many of their colleagues, removed from office as a result of the State of Emergency, Osman Doğramacı was imposed as Administrator of Payîzawa. One of his first acts in office was
Rojava’s economy has been much discussed. Rojava has been lauded by leftists all around the world to be some kind of communal, confederal socialist utopia unparalleled by anything else existing around the world right now, so the question of how the economy in such a mystical place might be organized seems to be an important
The Western media relentlessly relays decapitations, calls for murder and barbarities perpetrated by Daesh, the so-called “Islamic state”. However, in the face of this barbarity, the Kurdish, Arab and Yezidi peoples of the Rojava region of northern Syria are implementing another model of society: emancipatory, egalitarian, multi-confessional, and very democratic; an experience that could even serve
