Kurds
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.
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.
Abdullah Öcalan: Let’s reclaim socialism through peace and building a democratic society
Abdullah Öcalan — Nation-state socialism leads to defeat. The time has come to advance toward democratic emancipation on the basis of democratic society socialism.
Imperialism, repression and resistance: The long war against Kurds in Iran
Like other conflicts in the Middle East, Iran’s troubled relations with the US and Israel — and with Iranian Kurds — have their roots in imperialism, writes Sarah Glynn.
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.
PKK dissolution is not an end, but a new stage in the struggle
Devriş Çimen — Abdullah Öcalan and the PKK have made it clear that the decision to dissolve the organisation does not herald an end, but a new stage in the struggle for freedom, democracy, and socialism.
‘A politically conscious Kurdish society is emerging’
Engin Sustam says that the Kurdish movement is no longer just an organization but an international people’s movement rooted in socialism.
Turkey: Political crisis and democratic movement
Emre Öngün — It is necessary to understand the context behind Imamoğlu's arrest and the PKK peace process, two seemingly contradictory dynamics, to grasp the potentials and pitfalls Turkey's democratic movement faces.
The Kurdish issue, Öcalan’s call and developments in Rojava
Hamit Bozarslan talks about the historical roots of the Kurdish issue, Abdullah Öcalan’s call for the PKK to disarm and recent developments in Northern and Eastern Syria.
After the fall: Hope amid the ruins of post-Assad Syria
Kevin B. Anderson — A few months after the epochal fall of the Assad dictatorship, Syria remains in flux. Nonetheless, some broad outlines of where Syria is going can be discerned.
Mazloum Abdi assesses the changes in Syria since the fall of the Assad regime, the attacks by Turkey and its mercenaries on Rojava, and developments in dialogues with the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham administration and between Kurdish political parties.
Statements: On the tenth anniversary of the liberation of Kobani
Statements by the Syrian Democratic Forces, Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria and People's Defense Units on the tenth anniversary of the liberation of Kobani.