The mountains are the Kurds' only friends Arthur Aberlin on the difficult navigation between temporary alliances of the YPG with imperialist powers and their unavoidable abandonment.
A libertarian communist fighting with the YPG A series of personal accounts of a French anarchist who travelled to Syria to fight Islamic State alongside the YPG in Rojava, translated into…
Funerals full of emotion Arthur Aberlin explains the importance of the ceremonies reserved to those who have fallen in the battles, to gather people in grief but also to…
Everyday life in an YPG training camp The threat of Turkish bombs, the importance of teaching the principles of the Kurdish revolution in the training camps, learning how to use a…
Media, Clinton supporters offer frenzied support for Syria intervention, refuse to learn from Libyan disaster Cheerleaders for Syrian intervention refuse to learn lessons from recent history
Standing with Syrians: an open letter to an anti-imperialist Eva is a real person who I have known since 2007, as described in this article. But in this text Eva…
Syrian Protestors Defy Attempts at Intimidation Article about the highway blockades by the women of the village of Bayda in response to the violent repression of the Syrian government.
2011: Syrian Women Blockade Highway In the early days of the protests in Syria 2011 the women and children of the village of Bayda responded to the mass arrest of the men of the…
Califat et Barbarie - Tristan Leoni Tristan Leoni's three-part series of articles on IS and its 'caliphate', first published on DDT21 blogs.
Brouillards de guerre - Gilles Dauvé June 2016 article by G.D. on IS, Syria, war, the state and rhetoric, first published on the DDT21 blog.
Islamic State, A Project Of Civil Society Beyond the clichés that portray the Islamic State as simply a barbaric and fanatical occupation force shot up with petrodollars from smuggling, we cannot grasp it in its reality without considering its full dimension as a social project...