Crimethinc: The Threat to Rojava: An Anarchist in Syria Speaks on the Real Meaning of Trump’s Withdrawal
byI’m writing from Rojava. Full disclosure: I didn’t grow up here and I don’t have access to all the information I would need to…
I’m writing from Rojava. Full disclosure: I didn’t grow up here and I don’t have access to all the information I would need to…
I first met Karim Franceschi in November 2016, in the hills of northeastern Syria, at a remote compound everyone called the Academy. It was a…
I have been called a ‘psycho’ and accused of having a death wish, but I have never been told that, like Anna who fought…
The Kurds are no longer communists but adhere to a far-left, anarcho-feminist ideology closer to Occupy Wall Street than to anything in the Middle…
TQILA is a small unit within the International Revolutionary People’s Guerrilla Forces — a battalion of self-identified anarchist foreign fighters who traveled to support…
TQILA tells us that it was formed to fight “authority, patriarchy and oppressive heteronomativity, queer/homophobia and transphobia” and explains how “the images of gay…
The clash pitted capitalists against communists, monarchists against anarchists, conservatives vs. libertarians, fascists against democrats, religious fanatics against secular extremists, centralists against those who…
In his west Raqqah outpost, surrounded by snipers and the occasional armed drone, Howard said Western volunteers in Syria seem to fit into one…
A handful of leftwing activists have followed the Lincolns’ example to extremes, joining Syria’s civil war to defend Rojava, where anarchists have carved out…
As Brooklyn hipsters descend on Rojava to take part in a socialism-rooted, communal and ideological movement, Amir Taaki tells Double Down this is actually the first anarchist…