EAN: 9780745336596

REVOLUTION IN ROJAVA - MICHAEL KNAPP ANJA FLACH...

A new kind of society is being built in Syria  but it's not one you would expect. Surrounded by
deadly bands of ISIS and hostile Turkish forces  the people living in Syria's Rojava cantons
are carving out one of the most radically progressive societies on the planet today. Western
visitors have been astounded by the success of their project  a communally organised democracy
which considers women's equality indispensable and rejects reactionary nationalist ideology
whilst being fiercely anti-capitalist. The people of Rojava call their new system democratic
confederalism. An implementation of the recent ideology of the imprisoned Kurdish leader
Abdullah Ocalan  it boasts gender quotas of 40 percent  bottom-up democratic structures 
deep-reaching ecological policies and a militancy which is keeping ISIS from the gates.
Revolution in Rojava is the first full-length study of this ongoing social and political
transformation in Syrian Kurdistan. Its authors use their own experiences of working and
fighting in the region to construct a picture of hope for Middle-Eastern politics and society 
and reveal an extraordinary story of a battle against the odds.

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