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A graphic journey into Rojava's revolution and resilience
Their Blood Got Mixed: Revolutionary Rojava and the war on ISIS By Janet Biehl PM Press, 2022 Their Blood Got Mixed is a graphic memoir through the heart of a remarkable experiment in self-determination. Set against the backdrop of the Syrian civil war and the rise of Islamic State (ISIS), it paints a picture of the Kurdish-led revolution in Rojava, a region in north-eastern Syria.
Their Blood Got Mixed by Janet Biehl
Home Catalog Graphic Nonfiction Paperback A Graphic Journey to the Multiethnic Democracy in Northeast Syria Not available in store. Usually ships in 1 to 7 business days. Categories Graphic Nonfiction Socialism Tags kurdistan, middle east, rojava By Janet Biehl In the summer of 2012 the Kurdish people of northern Syria set out to create a multiethnic society in the Middle East.
Learning in other ways in Rojava
In Rojava, in Syrian Kurdistan, the Mesopotamian University of Social Sciences in Qamislo and, above all, the Women’s University of Rimelan challenge the traditional way of conceiving the transmission of knowledge. The students are not only young people, but also adults, even grandmothers and grandfathers. Some are already graduates, others are illiterate, all have knowledge to share.
Thoughts on Rojava: an interview with Janet Biehl
In this interview, independent filmmaker and journalist Zanyar Omrani talks to Janet Biehl about her late companion Murray Bookchin, her trips to Rojava and the important question of how to build bottom-up power structures without risking the reversal of the process over time. Janet Biehl has traveled to Rojava twice in the past year and has written extensively about her experiences and observations while visiting the autonomous cantons in northern Syria.
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American writer Janet Biehl travels to northern Syria to explore the women’s revolution inspired by the work of her late partner Murray Bookchin. In April 2019, filmmakers Ross Domoney and Danny Mitchell traveled to northern Syria together with Janet Biehl, an American writer, editor and former partner of the late Murray Bookchin whose work inspired a radically democratic, ecological and feminist revolution in the region.
The Politics of Social Ecology
Best known for introducing the idea of ecology to the left, and for first positing that a liberatory society would also have to be an ecological society, Murray Bookchin. over the course of several decades, developed the basic components of “libertarian municipalism”—how to create free cities. Written in short, to-the-point chapters, this book presents an introductory overview and sketches the historical and philosophical context in which these ideas are grounded.
The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics
Women Politicians Write from Prison Prison writings from 22 Kurdish women who were elected to office in Turkey and then imprisoned by the state on political grounds Overview Author Biography Endorsements Contents Details Gültan Kışanak, a Kurdish journalist and former MP, was elected co-mayor of Diyarbakır in 2014. Two years later, the Turkish state arrested and imprisoned her. Her story is remarkable, but not unique.
Women of Komala
Gender and Revolution in Iranian Kurdistan The first comprehensive study of women guerrillas in Iranian Kurdistan Overview Author Biography Endorsements Contents Details Kurdistan has a storied and turbulent past, marked by a relentless struggle for self-determination and survival.
Bizarre and Wonderful
In spring 2004, Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Turkey, sent a letter to Murray Bookchin, an 83-year-old, wheelchair-bound, arthritic eco-anarchist in Burlington, Vermont. Öcalan was serving a life sentence in solitary confinement on an island off the Turkish coast. In prison he’d abandoned Marxism-Leninism and was in search of a new philosophy.
ROAR Magazine
For decades, three million Syrian Kurds lived under severe repression by the Assad regime, their identity denied and access to education and jobs refused. Despite imprisonment and torture, the resistance grew. When the Arab Spring arrived in Syria, their organizations seized the moment to create a pioneering democratic revolution. The liberation of Rojava began in Kobane, on July 19, 2012. From this day on, the history of social and political revolution entered a new era.
On this day in 2015: Kobane liberated!
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Bookchin's Revolutionary Program | ROAR Magazine
The lifelong project of Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) was to try to perpetuate the centuries-old revolutionary socialist tradition by renovating it for the current era. Confronted with the failure of Marxism after World War II, many, perhaps most radical socialists of his generation abandoned the left. But Bookchin refused to give up on the aim of replacing capitalism and the nation state with a rational, ecological libertarian communist society, based on humane and cooperative social relations.
Revolutionary Education
“You have to educate, twenty-four hours a day, to learn how to discuss, to learn how to decide collectively. You have to reject the idea that you have to wait for some leader to come and tell the people what to do, and instead learn to exercise self-rule as a collective practice. . . . The people themselves educate each other. When you put ten people together and ask them for a solution to a problem or propose them a question, they collectively look for an answer.
The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay: An American Family in Iran
The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay: An American Family in Iran by Hooman Majd is the author's return to live in Iran for a year with his American wife and child. He was born in Iran and educated in England and the United States and currently resides in New York, as an American citizen. He is the grandson of an ayatollah and the son of an Iranian diplomat.
Research for Progress
Resources for Building Human Rights and Social Justice Publications Online Websites Building Human Rights Building Our PlanetBuilding DemocracyBuilding Economic JusticeBuilding EqualityBuilding Gender JusticeBuilding Immigrant RightsBuilding LibertyBuilding Public EducationBuilding Racial JusticeBuilding World Peace _________________________ Home Really thoughtful critiques from radical left analyists: I will expand these descriptions soonest.
Bookchin, Öcalan, and the Dialectics of Democracy
February 3-5, 2012, a a conference was organized in Hamburg, Germany. The theme was “Challenging Capitalist Modernity: Alternative concepts and the Kurdish Question.” The following text was delivered as a speech to the conference. … In February 1999, at the moment when Abdullah Öcalan was abducted in Kenya, Murray Bookchin was living with me in Burlington, Vermont. We watched Öcalan’s capture on the news reports.
The Fallacy of "Neither Left nor Right": Militia Fever
At a time when the political sands have shifted massively to the right nearly everywhere, when the right is riding high while the left languishes in debris, it is increasingly common to hear the cry “Neither left nor right!” Few right-wingers issue this cry—but then, why should they? Their political label is the toast of several continents today.
The Fallacy of “Neither Left nor Right”: Militia Fever
At a time when the political sands have shifted massively to the right nearly everywhere, when the right is riding high while the left languishes in debris, it is increasingly common to hear the cry “Neither left nor right!” Few right-wingers issue this cry — but then, why should they? Their political label is the toast of several continents today.
"Ecology" and the Modernization of Fascism in the German Ultra-right (1993)
The Ecofascist Legacy of the Nazis: Historical Roots of Far-right Ecologies Aside from its unique historical path in regard to racism/nationalism and the protection of nature, Germany has also an original character in how it associates these concepts.
Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience
Introduction For most compassionate and humane people today, the ecological crisis is a source of major concern. Not only do many ecological activists struggle to eliminate toxic wastes, to preserve tropical rainforests and old-growth redwoods, and to roll back the destruction of the biosphere, but many ordinary people in all walks of life are intensely concerned about the nature of the planet that their children will grow up to inhabit.
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