Following our recent webinar, Syria Coops Update: Water Wars Amid Regime Change, Co-operative News published this two page spread in their April 2025 edition on how the weaponisation of water is affecting cooperatives and the broader population in North and East Syria.
In February 2025 we had a productive meeting with Aboriya Jin, the women's economic committee of Kongra Star women's movement umbrella in North-East Syria (NES). We discussed the current state of co-operatives in NES following the collapse of the Syrian government.
#Urgent_Call from the Administration of #Tishreen_Dam to the Iraqi Government and Authorities Concerned with Water Security
A new series of large-scale military attacks by Turkey began last night across the entire swathe of North and East Syria from Shehba in the west to Derik at the northeastern point, and continued until midday local time today, 24 October, 2024.
A representative from the Water for Rojava Committee participated in World Water Week, a prominent global event focused on water issues, held in Stockholm from 25-29 August 2024.
"Our situation is not great. People are facing attacks every day. The situation is really devastating, but it is our duty to resist."
A series of relentless huge-scale bombardments by Turkey over the course of several days have devastated civilian infrastructure – the basis for life in the region – across North and East Syria.
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💧 The Water for Rojava Committee went on a delegation to North and East Syria (NES, also known as Rojava) during the month of October, 2022.
Solidarity Economy Association and other members of the Water for Rojava Europe Committee send our heartfelt solidarity and wishes for a speedy recovery to Fadil Bazar, Bozan Şêx Nebî and Muslim Hemo, the three workers who were hospitalised as a result of a bomb attack on a waterworks west of Kobane in NE Syria on 22 December, 2022.
Below are notes from an online meeting on “Reviving rivers through community based action – an exchange of views in the context of North East Syria / Rojava” which took place between people in North and East Syria, people in India, and various supporters and allies, on 11 April, 2022. The meeting was convened by
This report was prepared by the Water for Rojava Europe Committee for sharing information about the International Water Forum that took place in Hasakah, NE Syria in September, 2021, with all who are interested. Members of the Water for Rojava Europe Committee attended the Forum as participants, and the report should not be considered an official release of the Forum itself.
Thanks to your support, the Water for Rojava campaign has been able to partially fund a Women's Village in Derik. You can still donate to Water for Rojava via Paypal through the following link: www.solidarityeconomy.coop/donate.
Below we show photos and messages from co-operatives in England and Wales in solidarity with the Rojava Revolution in North-East Syria. This comes following the call for action from Solidarity Economy Association and Co-operation in Mesopotamia for co-ops to join the Global Days of Action on 18-19 July 2020. #CoopsRiseUp4Rojava
Co-operation in Mesopotamia and the Solidarity Economy Association are inviting co-operatives to participate in the Global Days of Action on the weekend of 18-19 July.
On the morning of 9 October, Turkish state military forces began to bombard cities of North and East Syria – the region commonly known as Rojava – and also began incursions across the border, particularly in the region around Girê Spî (Tel Abyad) and Serê Kaniyê, which is now under full occupation by Turkish forces.
Campaigners and co-operative members in London took part in the 3rd Global Days of Action for the defence of the 12,000 year old town Hasankeyf and the Tigris River on 7 June, 2019. The Turkish Government had announced their intention to begin filling the dam reservoir on 10 June, leading to the call for the
The Solidarity Economy Association wish to send our heartfelt solidarity and congratulations to the over 7,000 Kurdish people around the world who have just ended their hunger strikes in victory. The hunger strikers had been demanding the end of the aggravated isolation which has been imposed on Kurdish leader and political prisoner Abdullah Ocalan, who
UK co-ops: We need you to join us in speaking up for the tens of thousands of people who are likely to be displaced when the ancient town of Hasankeyf and 200 villages in southeastern Turkey are flooded, as part of a Turkish government hydroelectric project. The Turkish government recently announced that on 10 June
At the start of February 2019, over thirty women* from across the UK, from three parts of Kurdistan, and some from other countries like Spain, Sweden and Mexico, gathered in a snow covered hostel in Hebden Bridge to discuss patriarchy, history and Jineolojî. Jineolojî is a social science being developed by the Kurdish Women’s Movement.
The largest show of political solidarity by UK co-operators took place in London on Sunday 27 January when a ‘co-op bloc’ was formed as part of a demonstration in support of the Rojava Revolution and Kurdish population of Northern Syria against attacks by the Turkish state.
Rojava is now under threat of a full-scale attack and invasion from Turkey, which would mean an all-out war. Turkey’s dictator Erdoğan has threatened to crush this progressive revolution, invade and occupy Northeastern Syria and ‘bury’ the Kurds. There are calls coming from all related democratic structures in the region, and internationally from the diaspora and solidarity
Sunday 27 January, 12:30 pm, Cavendish Square, London The people of Northern Syria and its democratic self-administration are under severe threat of attack by the Turkish military and Turkish-backed Islamist militias, who are threatening to invade and occupy the Autonomous Administrations of North and East Syria (Rojava), just as they did with the predominantly
Today, Kobane is once again under attack. For the past few days, the Turkish army has been heavily shelling towns and villages of Kobanê and Girê Spî (officially Tel Abyad, another city in the Kobane region) along its border from the other side. Zormaghar, Ashma, Selim, Kor-Ali are, Charikhli, Silib Qiran, Yabisah, Til Findir, and Suskah are just some of the villages reportedly being shelled with tanks and artillery. A number of civilian casualties have already been reported, including a 12 year old girl and a woman in Girê Spî.
We’re calling for UK co-ops to support Northern Syria’s transition to a feminist, co-operative economy — attend one of our Rojava Co-operative Solidarity workshops and find out how you can get involved. The Rojava Revolution taking place in Northern Syria is transitioning the region into a gender equal, and democratic society, based on communes, co-operatives
Members of the Co-operative College have voted unanimously in favour of a resolution, put forward by the Solidarity Economy Association at the College’s AGM, to support the growth of the co-operative economy in Rojava, Northern Syria. Over the past five years, the co-operative movement in Northern Syria has seen unprecedented growth, from nothing to 3% of
The UK co-operative movement has sent a message of solidarity to its fellow co-operators in the Democratic Federation of North Syria (Rojava) as the first ever conference of co-operatives was held over the weekend in the region. This historic event has been co-ordinated by new Unions of Co-operatives which have recently been established in all
