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1. The revolutionary feminists fighting ISIS

   autumn of 2014, only months after Islamic State (ISIS) achieved huge territorial gains inside Syria and ... little-known town of Kobane in Syria’s north. Having overrun Mosul, Tel Afar and Sinjar in Iraq, as well as ... a vast expanse of territory inside Syria, ISIS prepared to launch an attack on the north of Syria, known ...

2. Iraq: Mosul offensive poses new questions amid Western hypocrisy

   Iraqi conflict, but in the interrelated conflict in neighbouring Syria they back opposing sides. ... ISIS-controlled territory, of course, straddles the Iraq-Syria border. The group invaded Iraq from Syria, where it ... interference in Iraq and Syria. The current fighting in Iraq is a continuation of the multisided conflict that ...

3. An open letter to a comrade: Why the left must support Rojava’s revolutionaries

   of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fanatics invaded Shengal (Sinjar) district, in the Ninevah governorate of ... — an evil portent of the war crimes and genocide to come. ISIS fighters then swept into Syria to ... Africa into the Arab world. In Syria, mass protests broke out against Bashar al-Assad’s corrupt and ...

4. Vale David Graeber 1961-2020

   upheavals of civil war and intervention in Syria. Graeber called himself a “small ‘a’ anarchist”, eschewing ...

5. Rojava conference to discuss support for commune-style democracy

   struggle in northern Syria enters perhaps its most critical phase. “The Rojava Revolution in Northern ... Syria: An experiment in radical democracy, feminism & ecology” will be held in Melbourne on June 30 ... problems it faces and to build support for it. For six years Syria has been engulfed in a terrible war. The ...

6. Rojava's feminist & ecosocialist revolution

   multi-ethnic and democratic con-federalist revolution in northern Syria. The Turkish government is attempting ...

7. Turkish PM admits attacks on Syrian Kurds

   northern Syria on October 25, Morning Star said on October 28. The Kurdish People's Protection Units ... forces attacked Kurdish militia in northern Syria on October 25, Morning Star said on October 28. The ... now! You can also like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. Syria Turkey Kurdistan November 1, 2015 ...

8. Climate change helped fuel Syrian conflict, study finds

   change-fueled drought contributed to the political unrest in Syria, says a new paper published in the ... You can also like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. Syria March 30, 2015 1047 Researches found ... Syria's extreme drought worsened water security and agricultural woes. World ...

9. US Senate votes to further arm Saudi Arabia as Yemen suffers

   Imperialism & war arms sales US Senate wars in Yemen and Syria Yemen The US Senate voted on ...

10. Kurds come under attack at film screening

    across Northern Syria. Since the beginning of the civil war in Syria, when conflict created a vacuum of ... within the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria (DFNS). This canton, geographically isolated from the ... you see here is incomparable to the violence people in Turkey and Syria are facing. In Afrin, every ...

11. Europe: Thousands march to free Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan

    attention and solidarity that the Rojava Revolution in Syria is attracting among anti-capitalist youth in ... attacks on North and East Syria. We have seen the destruction of ancestral heritage, historical places and ...

12. Audio: Political and cultural repression in Turkey — Interview with left MP

    addition to this, Turkey is also in a mess with their relations with Syria and Libya. Turkey is actively ... facing in Syria are very challenging and the economy is not recovering. If we don't have ... other than attacking, killing, destroying, torturing. And not only in Turkey but also in Syria, where ...

13. The climate crisis and the need for peace

    long war in Syria has given rise to a refugee crisis in Europe. But refugees from war are only one part ... February 20, 2020 1254 Refugees from the war in Syria. Image: Freedom House/Flickr Author Jeff Sparrow ...

14. A history of aggression

    War. Israel launched a massive attack against Syria, Egypt and Jordan, seizing the Sinai Peninsula and ... Gaza Strip from Egypt, the Golan Heights from Syria, and East Jerusalem and the West Bank from Jordan. ... conducts terrorist attacks against the Palestinian resistance in Syria and Lebanon. 1973: Yom Kippur War. ...

15. Kurdistan Workers Party leader arrested

    November 12. Ocalan had been forced to flee from Syria after the Turkish government pressured the Syrian ... government to deny PKK fighters sanctuary on its territory. Turkey had threatened war against Syria. Ocalan ... between Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran and the former Soviet Union. During that time more than 2000 villages ...

16. Rojava: Mid-East's biggest democratic hope targeted in terrorist massacre

    truck exploded in a crowded area of Qamişlo in Rojava (northern Syria). This terrorist massacre, claimed ... Syria” earlier this year. It is a multi-ethnic city of Kurds, Arabs, Assyrians, and Armenians. It is near ... closing the final link between ISIS and Turkey in Syria. The attack hit an area close to a local police ...

17. Sydney solidarity with Kurdish struggle (PHOTO STORY)

    Kobane, which is part of the Rojava Kurdish liberated zone in northern Syria. On Friday morning (October ... to receive arms from outside Syria. "On a day that should have been one of the happiest on the ... border with Syria, watching helplessly as shells rained down on a city many once called home. ...

18. Women make Kobani living hell for Islamic State

    taken de facto control over a sizable chunk of Syria's predominantly Kurdish north. According to ... research group TRAC, as much as 35% of Kurdish troops in Syria's north are women. Estimates from other ... groups put the numbers of Kurdish women fighting in Syria as high as 10,000. The Syrian Observatory for ...

19. Emirati–Israeli accord will not bring peace to Palestinians

    since the 2011 NATO war for regime change. After supporting various Islamist militias in Syria’s civil ...

20. More Australian politicians condemn Turkey's war on Afrin

    Afrin, one of three democratic autonomous cantons in northern Syria, when she addressed a rally in Sydney ...

21. Civil war fears in Lebanon

    "We think that Syria's hands were in this crime, since in a few days there is supposed to be ... investigate the killing of Rafik Hariri], and Syria is trying to evade this." Responding to US claims ... declaring: "Syria is outraged by this terrible act. In a time when the international community is ...

22. 'Terrorists'

    "terrorist". Here's a selection: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Cuba, North Korea and Sudan; Armed Islamic ...

23. Middle East conference set in Madrid

    Lebanon, Syria and a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation. Egypt and representatives from the United ... to provoke Syria into withdrawing, an aide to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir accused Syria of being ... occupied Lebanon. The statement was after an organisation that has no ties with Syria claimed ...

24. 'Winners and losers' of Gulf War

    By Adam Hanieh ADELAIDE — Israel, Syria, Turkey and Iran were the big winners in the Middle East ... The meeting was organised by the Gulf Peace Action Committee. Syria was the main Arab winner, said ... the most likely territory would be Syria's Golan Heights, seized in the 1967 war. Springborg ...

25. What’s new on Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

    Syria and the rise of the Kurdish-led People’s Democratic Party in Turkey. Dirik argues that “the people ... to the people in Syria by the system (the status quo embodied by Assad’s dictatorship or a regime ...

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