Tag Archives: Rojava

Sleep Now in the Fire: Rojava, Iran, and Tunisia

Posted on January 26, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

Events outrun our capacity to record, reflect upon and share. Taking our cue from the It’s Going Down collective, we recall events in rojava, iran, and tunisia …

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The economics and politics of the rojava revolution

Posted on April 27, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

From a distance, and in the absence of a knowledge of the local languages, news about the “rojava revolution” in nothern syria remains fragmentary and often contradictory.  While supportive of the movement, questions and doubts remain which we are unable … Continue reading →

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The anarchist critique of democracy (8): CrimethInc.

Posted on May 22, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

The anarchist collective CrimethInc. initiated in the month of May a critical analysis and discussion of “democracy”, promising a series of reflections.  The series gains in significance with events in france around the movement Nuit Debout.  What follows is the … Continue reading →

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Terror against autonomy: Turkey

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

Photographs by Ilyas Akengin Varto, Semdinli, Cizre, Nusaybin, Beytussebap, Bismil, Silvan, Tusba, Sirnak, Gever, Derik, Silopi, Diyarbakir: these are names of martyred towns and villages of eastern, largely kurdish, turkey.  They mark points in a cartography of terror carried out … Continue reading →

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Understanding the kurdish resistance: From Crimethinc

Posted on September 28, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

In the continuing concern to diffuse testimonials and analyses of the kurdish effort at creating autonomous forms of local democracy in the rojava region and the parallel resistance to ISIS, and now the more general resistance to the turkish state’s … Continue reading →

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The state as an agent of murder: Turkey

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

Over thirty people have died, and over seventy are injured, in a bomb attack in Suruç, turkey, on the turkish-syrian border accross from Kobane.  The target was a gathering of the Federation of Socialist Youth Associations (SGDF) meeting at the … Continue reading →

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Testimonials from a revolution in Rojava

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

The Autonomies Collective has assumed no open position on the “Rojava Revolution” for reasons of ignorance. In the absence of consistent information on what is happening in the region, as well as its complexity, we have abstained from judging or … Continue reading →

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Border Testimonies: From Suruc/Kobane, Turkey/Syria

Posted on December 10, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

On the walls of Istanbul can be read the graffiti, echoing Spain’s revolution of 1936, “Kobane will be the tomb of fascism”: the fascism of Isis, and of the Syrian and Turkish states.  In the Rojava region of Syria, a … Continue reading →

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