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The end of Rojava is bad news for the United States

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 has built a revolutionary society centred on women’s emancipation. Every institution in Rojava relies on power-sharing between men and women ...
Rojava is shifting from revolutionary autonomy toward conditional integration.
The relation of exploitation contains, in an immanent way, a direct relation of domination, of subjection, and of social and police control. But when one takes the relation of domination, of ...
Recent developments in northern Syria, in Rojava, are not merely part of a regional conflict: they are testing the very limits of security, identity, and international conscience in the Middle East.
In one of its final moves in office, the Biden administration is trying to secure U.S. influence over Rojava, the Kurdish-led region of northeastern Syria. “We need to stand with the Kurds, and ...
At a time when we are trying to heal the deep wounds and bleeding relationship between Turks and Kurds left from the 20th century, stop reopening those wounds and deepening the pain. There was a ...