Members of The Participating Woman’s Cooperative Society in Kobanî Canton [Kantona Kobaniyê] have begun harvesting the crops of wheat and barley that they planted at the start of last winter. Many of the members of Kongreya Star, The Movement for A Democratic Society [TEV DEM] and other women from Kobani have gathered in the village of Kasbishek, to
QAMISHLO – The women who are building the autonomous economy in Rojava develop their work in Maya shop day by day. Communal life has continued to be built in Qamishlo [Qamişlo / Qamishli / Al-Qamishli], city of Cizîr [Jazira / Cizîrê / Cezîre] Canton in Rojava. In Maya Shop, which was founded in 2011 in Qamishlo, the women have
TIRBESPIYÊ – Rojava women, who work in the greenhouse, said that they have begun the first harvest in their greenhouse and that they would expand their planting protects by mentioning their projects on autonomous economy. The Greenhouse Project began in September 2016 in the Tirbespiye [Tirbespî / Al-Qahtaniyah] city of Jazira Canton [Kantona Cizîrê / Cezîre] in Rojava. Successful results
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Sheddadi [Şeddadê / Al-Shaddadah] opened a bakery and formed a cooperative society to run it in an effort to solve the crisis of bread shortage in the region. The production rate of the bakery is 3,000 bags of bread per day. There are 48 members participating in the project so far. Lack of
The members of The Poultry Cooperative Society in Hasakah [Hesekê / Hesîeç / Al-Hasakah] elected a temporary board of directors consisting of eight members, both women and men, in a meeting. They also discussed and read the proposal for the project. The Al-Hasakah Agricultural Council, which is part of The Economic Committee in Jazira Canton [Kantona Cizîrê / Cezîre],
Binefsh Water Filtering and Bottling Plant Co-operative is another step toward enhancing participatory work, achieving self sufficiency, supporting people with limited income, and creating jobs.
In the ongoing discussions of the social experiment taking place in Rojava, the economic aspect often tends to get neglected. You can read a lot about the military aspect, the war against ISIS, co-operation with US forces and so on, and a lot about the political ideologies, the new decision-making structures that have been set
Zanîn is a co-operative for medical, dental and pharmaceutical supplies and equipment for hospitals and clinics. The idea for this project came from a group of doctors who work in Jazira. Zanîn is a communal co-operative, and the price of a share is 100,000 SYP. There are a total of 5,000 shares which are collectively worth five hundred million Syrian pounds.
QAMIŞLO – The women of the Cizîrê canton are participating in the cooperatives founded by Kongreya Star in increasing numbers. The Economic Committee of the Kongreya Star administration of the Jazira Canton [Kantona Cizîrê / Cezîre] founded a women’s agricultural cooperative in Qamishlo [Qamişlo / Qamishli / Al-Qamishli] on 11th November, 2016. The 30 women in the cooperative
DİYARBAKIR [Amed]- While the ecologists have begun to grow crops in the field led by the Agricultural Seed Commission of Ecology Association, the seedlings are aimed to be distributed to the people by using the barter system. Vegetables and greens are growing in the field formed by the Agricultural Seed Commission of Ecology Association in
DÊRIK – The project for a house-building cooperative has begun. The goal of the project is to enable the homeless to buy a house and work in this area will become widespread. As we have seen, the Baath regime introduced brutal laws towards the Kurdish people during its occupation of Rojava. One of these was the
There are, after all, some things that mix quite well, like salt and pepper, and others that don’t mix at all, like fire and water. As an attempt to mix opposite qualities, is the market more like salt and pepper, or is it more like fire and water? ─Bertell Ollman, Market Socialism: The Debate Among
