Flooding the cradle of civilisation: A 12,000 year old town in Kurdistan battles for survival
Submitted by Shoal Collective on Sep 23 2017 10:56
It’s one of the oldest continually inhabited places on earth, but a new dam has put Hasankeyf under threat, write Eliza Egret and Tom Anderson.
Struggles for autonomy in Kurdistan - Corporate Watch
A book from Corporate Watch on Kurdish struggles and corporate complicity in the repression of social movements in Rojava and Bakur.
Democratic autonomy in North Kurdistan: An interview with the Democratic Society Congress
Submitted by Tom Anderson an... on Apr 28 2016 16:32
This Democratic autonomy is a movement which aims to establish a network of grassroots assemblies in Bakur (the Kurmanji Kurdish word for the area of Kurdistan within the borders of Turkey). Corporate Watch carried out interviews with several of the organisations involved in the process of democratic autonomy in June and July 2015.
Democratic Confederalism in Kurdistan
Submitted by Tom Anderson an... on Apr 25 2016 09:47
This article examines the theory and practice of democratic confederalism in Bakur and Rojava, and goes on to discuss how we can engage in solidarity, while maintaining an honest and critical perspective.
