The Kurdish Freedom Movement and the Revolution in Rojava
The Kurds are the ultimate stateless people, living in a region spanning Syria, Turkey, Iran and Iraq. For decades leftwing Kurds struggled to create their own ethnic state. But in recent decades, the leadership of the Kurdish freedom movement embraced a form of anarchism, in which they rejected states altogether, and have been building such a society in the midst of the war in Syria. \xa0Havin Guneser discusses the rise of the Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party and the attempt to build a radical socialist-feminist society while fighting the Islamic State in Northern Syria.\nResources:\nPeace in Kurdistan\nWomen Rise Up for Afrin\nThe post The Kurdish Freedom Movement and the Revolution in Rojava appeared first on KPFA.