Syria

Defend Rojava global day of action

‘Your solidarity is part of our self-defense’: Two urgent calls from Rojava for global solidarity

Two urgent calls for solidarity with the Rojavan revolution, one initiated by Women for Rovaja and RiseUp4Rojava, the other from universities in Rojava/Northern and Eastern Syria.
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Stop war against the Kurds: Stand for peace, justice and freedom; solidarity with the Kurdish people

Kurdistan National Congress — The clear objective of the war of annihilation against the Kurds is to hand Syria over from the Baath dictatorship to the HTS dictatorship.
Kurdish rally in Sydney January 18

[Updated] (Statements) Defend the Rojava revolution against the Syrian regime’s genocidal attacks

Statements by the Revolutionary Left Party (Syria), Socialist Alliance (Australia), Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party, Turkey), Socialist Party of Malaysia, Sinn Féin National Chairperson Declan Kearney MLA, and Southall Black Sisters (England) opposing the Syrian regime’s genocidal attacks on the Rojava revolution.
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[Updated] Kurdish left statements: Defend Rojava!

Statements by Kurdistan Democratic Communities Union, Democratic Union Party and Kongra Star Coordination denouncing the Damascus transitional administration’s attacks on Rojava and North and East Syria.
A Syrian Democratic Forces member stands guard along a road in town of al-Busayrah in Syria's Deir Ezzor province, on 4 September 2023

Why Arab tribes haven’t defected from the Syrian Democratic Forces

Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi — After the Assad regime’s collapse, many predicted the SDF would rapidly unravel from within. Those expectations have not materialised.
Women in Qamislo demonstrate in support of Sheikh Maksoud and Ashrafiyeh

Syrian government launches assault on Aleppo’s Kurdish neighborhoods

Rojava Information Centre — Two Kurdish neighborhoods in Aleppo are facing an armed assault by the forces of the Syrian government aimed at seizing control of the neighborhoods.
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Inter-imperialist rivalry, class independence and the struggle for a revolutionary internationalism: An interview with Blanca Missé (Part II)

Blanca Missé looks at inter-imperialist rivalry today, the need to oppose all imperialisms and the case for a class-based internationalism.
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Suweida under fire: Sectarianism and the consolidation of power in Damascus

Joseph Daher — Events in Suweida demonstrate Syria is experiencing a process of establishing a new authoritarian regime.
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HTS’ strategy to consolidate its power in Syria

Joseph Daher — The new authorities are rooting themselves in international alliances while resorting to sectarianism similarly to the old regime.
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Syria: Sharaa’s authoritarian centralisation stumbles in Suweida

Sharaa’s gamble on centralising Syria by force rather than democratic consensus building gets a deadly reality check in Suweida, writes Joseph Daher.
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Syria and the dangers of playing with fire

Gilbert Achcar on the origin of the recent bloody clashes in the Druze-majority Suwayda Governorate and the prospects of post-Assad Syria.
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[Updated] ‘A serious threat to civil peace and national unity’: Statements from Rojava on sectarian violence in As-Suwayda

Statements by the Syrian Democratic Council, the Democratic Union Party and the Women’s Protection Units on violence in Suwayda.

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