This most comprehensive account up-to-date, based on interviews with local political actors, presents a critical examination of political structures and organizing strategies implemented in North and East Syria. It pays a special focus to ongoing challenges the autonomous administration faces, including the incorporation of non-Kurdish communities, and limitations of the political system, as it is currently implemented, in reaching the goal of a directly democratic governance.
Read MoreDebbie Bookchin's father's ideas inspired a Kurdish project based on ecology, non hierarchy, women's liberation and grassroots democracy.
Read MoreIn this second part of the interview, Debbie Bookchin and Emre Şahin share their thoughts and observations on how the revolution has impacted everyday life in Rojava.
Read MoreScholars Laura Fantone and Andrej Grubacic discuss what’s at stake in Rojava and why the U.S. left should come to its defense.
Read MoreWhat's Next for Kurds? The Kurds of northern Syria lost faith in the U.S. following President Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from the region. Nishti Murad, a school teacher from Kobani, said America left them to die.
Read MoreThe last few weeks have witnessed a catastrophic geopolitical development in Rojava, Northeast Syria.
Read MoreThe Rojava revolution is under attack. Debbie Bookchin and Emre Şahin share their thoughts on this unique revolutionary process after recently visiting the region.
Read MoreIn covering President Trump’s decision to stop protecting Kurdish fighters in Syria, press reports have focused on the Kurds as US allies and tools in fighting ISIS. This week, On the Media looks at a different aspect of Kurdish life: the experiment in direct democracy that has flourished in northern Syria for the past five years.
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