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
The Centre for Economic Development in the area of Bulbul in Afrin Canton [Kantona Efrînê / Afrîn] has opened the first cooperative society for the exchange of gas bottles and sale of petrol in the village of Kotana, with the aim of creating a self-sufficient economy and to revive the spirit of cooperation. The cooperative has the participation of
The challenges that the people face in Rojava The living conditions have become like the straw that broke the camel’s back. With the increase of refugees from other parts of Syria and Iraq, particularly from Mosul, the burden has increased for all the people in Jazira [Kantona Cizîrê / Cezîre]. The average income Most workers in the region
About the work of internationalists in the civil institutions of Rojava The revolution of all kinds of relationships existing in society has been going on in Rojava for 6 Years now, but is far from being completed – if such a thing as completion is even possible. It is on the contrary at it‘s very
