Prominent philosopher Slavoi Zizek praised the Kurdish forces as the only ones fighting ISIS (Islamic State), while he accused Turkey of supporting an
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Not TINA (There Is No Alternative) but TAPAS: THERE ARE PLENTY OF ALTERNATIVES
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The real frontline confronting ISIS is not US or French bombers (the latter currently targeting Raqqa, a city with 140,000 civilians, who are virtual prisoners of ISIS) but the Kurds of Iraq and no... 
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Syrian Kurds are trying to build a leftist revolution in the midst of a civil war. Is it a new Middle East, or just another fracture?
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Thousands of Iranian Kurds have been protesting the regime for days, and demonstrations have now turned violent.
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News and Analysis of Assyrian and Assyrian-related Issues Worldwide
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That radical feminists such as Ivana Hoffman are helping to drive back Isis in Syria should be a source of immense pride for the international left
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we should all try social experiments more often. http://t.co/ijVk8I32wl
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The Islamic State group had launched a major offensive around Kirkuk. After clashes, about 15 oilworkers went missing.
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After 133 days of bloody war against ISIS, the Revolutionary Kurds of Kobane have finally declared victory.
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Despite apparent victory, analysts warn that IS still maintains heavy presence in Syrian Kurdistan
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Maybe rather than just scoffing at people who are actually engaged in daily revolutionary struggle, you might want to check out some of the voluminous literature produced by the Kurdish movement on this subject. I was hardly going to map out a detailed economic analysis in an interview where I wasn't even asked any questions about the subject anyway. But if you're actually curious - I suppose there's some possibility you might be - I could make a brief introductory list
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BEIRUT (AP) — Kurdish fighters advanced on the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq and Syria on Saturday, pushing into the contested, refugee-packed Sinjar mountains and gaining ground in the embattled Syrian border town of Kobani after heavy clashes, Kurdish officials and an activist group said.
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Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics, activist, anarchist David Graeber had written an article for the Guardian in October, in the first weeks of the ISIS attacks to Kobane (North Syria), and asked why the world was ignoring the revolutionary Syrian Kurds.
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By Zaher Baher from Haringey Solidarity Group and Kurdistan Anarchists Forum Below is the outcome of my visit to Northern Kurdistan in Turkey between 02/11/14 to 08/11/14 as one of a delegation from United Kingdom, organised by Peace in Kurdistan...
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Full Interview -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYIRbIh_8cw Date - October 14, 2014.
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Rudaw New Kurdish independence party in Turkey 'good for democracy' Rudaw Other smaller nationalist Kurdish parties already exist in Turkey, including the Rights and Freedom Party (HAK-PAR), Participatory Democracy Party (KADEP) and the Kurdistan...
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As the prospect of Kurdish independence becomes ever more imminent, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party transforms itself into a force for radical democracy.
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We must support the people of Kobane in their fight against ISIS and Turkey's plans to install a buffer zone, both of which are plots to assassinate the democratic project in Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan).
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David Graeber: Amid the Syrian warzone a democratic experiment is being stamped into the ground by Isis. That the wider world is unaware is a scandal
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