Power vacuum left by the war has allowed Kurds to create a secular, multicultural community As world leaders grapple with how to end the Syrian war, most people in the west are struggling to look ...

“The situation of media and freedom of speech is better in Rojava than in any other Syrian region”. This has been a common refrain in our discussions with local journalists and politicians on the ...

As we mentioned in the first article of the series, “Journalism in Rojava”, many of what we called “independent” media platforms emerged in Rojava after 2011. These media are mostly small outlets in ...

American support for Syria’s subjugation of “Rojava”—the autonomous Kurdish-led administration in its northeast—is regarded by many of its supporters as a betrayal. “Rojava” is the name that many ...

In 2014, when David Graeber and others began claiming that a genuine anti-capitalist revolution was occurring in Syrian Kurdistan, the healthy reaction was scepticism. After all, the initiators of ...

Syria’s interim government, backed by Islamist mercenaries, has launched large-scale attacks on the autonomous Rojava region. While Western states endorse Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa, ...

“The principal problem of national liberation struggle for the anti-statist anarcho-syndicalist form of organisation is that it is inherently statist. Advocating a more local form of state, the ...

Rûdaw TV workers Ferhad Hamo and Mesud Akil have been kidnapped in Syria’s Rojava district by a group allegedly linked with ISIS. Rûdaw TV’s freelance reporter Ferhad Hamo and cameraman Mesud Akil ...