Co-operative Economy in Rojava and Bakur

Creating a participatory system of economic democracy in Rojava

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This review of the book Revolution in Rojava includes some valuable information about Rojava’s new economic and legal systems. It is republished here from Systemic Disorder, where it appeared on 30 August 2017

Out of repression has emerged one of the world’s most interesting experiments in democracy. And by democracy, what is meant is not the formal capitalist variety of elections every few years...

A People’s Economy

Co-operative Economy in Rojava

This article is part of a longer piece about the history and context of Rojava, published in 2015 by Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness

The Rojava revolution’s economic plan is called a “People’s Economy” to differentiate it from traditional market and socialist (i.e. state) economies. But though it posits itself as an alternative to the...

The People of Jandairis Meet to Discuss their Economy and Resources

Co-operative Economy in Rojava

This is a translation of an Arabic article that first appeared on Hawar News on the 6th of February, 2017.

The Centre for Economic Development organised a meeting in Afrin [Afrîn / Efrîn‎] for people in Jandairis [Jindires / Cindarisa / Cindirêsê], in order to hear their opinions and suggestions about how to...

This Four-Woman Dairy Cooperative in North Syria Works Together Like a Family

Co-operative Economy in Rojava

This is a translation of an article written in Arabic that first appeared on Hawar News on 26 July, 2017.

Four women are working like a family in a dairy cooperative in Qamishlo [Qamişlo / Qamishli / Al-Qamishli], to develop the communal economy. Since the beginning of the Rojava Revolution, people have made big...

Introducing the People of North Syria to Cooperatives

Co-operative Economy in Rojava

This is a translation of an article written in Arabic that first appeared on hawar news on 29 July 2017.

Under the banner of ”The individual for the service of society, and society for the service of the individual”, The House of Cooperatives in Qamishlo [Qamişlo / Qamishli / Al-Qamishli] has distributed...

150 Families Form Ronak Electric Cooperative Society

Co-ops in Rojava

This is a translation of an article written in Arabic that first appeared on Hawar News on 10 August, 2017

The two communes of Shahid Mohammed Amin and Shahid Bahuz, which include 150 families in the Sweis neighbourhood of Qamishlo [Qamişlo / Qamishli / Al-Qamishli], have formed an electric cooperative society called...

Total embargo!

Co-operative Economy in Rojava

This article by Ercan Ayboga was published by ISKU Informationsstelle Kurdistan e.V. on January 29, 2017. It also appeared on Kurdish Question, 8 August 2017.

Unfortunately the KDP does not want an open border with Rojava. On the contrary, its goal is for the new political project there to fail, or to intervene and dismantle the…

Introduction to the Political and Social Structures of Democratic Autonomy in Rojava

Co-operative Economy in Rojava

This article by Zanyar Omrani is re-posted here from Kurdish Question where it appeared on 4th October 2015. Zanyar Omrani is a filmmaker and Kurdish human rights activist. Original source: countercurrents.org. It has been edited here to improve readability.

What goes on in Syrian Kurdistan cannot be reduced to the war against ISIS, and in order to understand the events in Rojava, one should look into the newly established institutions which...

Cizîre Region’s New Administrative Division

Co-operative Economy in Rojava

This article, published by Hawar News on 13 August 2017, clarifies the new administrative divisions of the Jazira [Cizîrê‎ / Cezîre]. We have added other names for the cities and regions mentioned for clarification purposes.

NEWS DESK– Cizîre region (al-Jazeera) within the administrative division law of the Democratic North-Syria Federation consists of two cantons: al-Hasakah and Qamişlo and 6 major areas. According to the administrative division...

Kurdish Diaspora in Germany Establish MED Production and Distribution Cooperative

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This is a translation of a Turkish language article originally published by Yeni Ozgur Politika, 28 June 2016

In Düsseldorf, Germany, the MED Production and Distribution Cooperative has begun its activities after a period of preparation. The cooperative, founded through an initiative of a group from Kurdistan including tradesmen...

The Rojava Revolution: The Revolution of Economic Achievements and Return to Communal Economy

Co-operative Economy in Rojava

This is a translation of an Aabic article by Birvan Hamy that first appeared on Ronahi on 19 July 2017.

What distinguish the Rojava revolution from some other revolutions are the difference in the mentality; the mindset; the self administration that has been working since its onset to satisfy the needs...

Bakur: The Fate of Women’s Projects is Unclear

Co-operative Economy in Bakur

This is a translation of a report published in Turkish by Evrensel, 7 February 2017.

Following the top-down appointment of an administration in the municipality of Nusaybin, Mardin, the future of the ‘Women’s Labour Market’, a project named ‘Jiyana bê sînor’ (Life without limits) is uncertain....

Creating a participatory system of economic democracy in Rojava

A People’s Economy

The People of Jandairis Meet to Discuss their Economy and Resources

This Four-Woman Dairy Cooperative in North Syria Works Together Like a Family

Introducing the People of North Syria to Cooperatives

150 Families Form Ronak Electric Cooperative Society

Total embargo!

Introduction to the Political and Social Structures of Democratic Autonomy in Rojava

Cizîre Region’s New Administrative Division

Kurdish Diaspora in Germany Establish MED Production and Distribution Cooperative

The Rojava Revolution: The Revolution of Economic Achievements and Return to Communal Economy

Bakur: The Fate of Women’s Projects is Unclear

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