Rojava gay
The current social revolution in Rojava (Western Kurdistan – Syria) is one of the greatest beacons of militant self-organized and autonomous revolutionary praxis of the 21st Century. Within a brutal civil war in Syria that has cost upwards of half a million lives, the Kurdish peoples along with other ethnic groups including Ezidis, Arabs, Assyrians, Armenians, Turkmen and Circassians as well as foreigners from other countries outside the region, have stood up to the barbarity of both Bashar al-Assad and the theocratic totalitarianism of Daesh (ISIS) in instruct to create a democratic entity which transcends the archetypal nation-state.
Today, that nascent revolutionary experiment is threatened by not only Assad’s forces and Daesh but also by the fascist forces of Turkey; the imperialist forces of the United States, NATO, Russia, Iran and China; the collusion of the Kurdish Regional Government (Iraq); and both internal and external counterrevolutionary, nationalist, bourgeois and rightist forces. The Kurdish revolutionary fight and embryonic project of democratic confederalism in Rojava has been surrounded by barbaric, opportunist and imperialist forces which seek to exting
The Rojava Spirit Spreads
The Rojava Essence Spreads
Can the Kurdish experiment in radical democracy stem Turkey’s authoritarian turn?
One of the experiences that sets the life of a reporter apart from other pursuits is the realization that when you penetrate a building in a foreign country and spot the portrait of a convicted terrorist proudly displayed on every wall, you know you’re in the right place. Such was my experience upon entering the offices of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, or Halklarin Demokratik Partisi (HDP), in a side road near Istanbul’s central square, where I hoped to gain a Kurds’-eye-view of the war against ISIS in northern Syria.
I employ the word “terrorist” with hesitation, not only because of its nebulous quality and widespread abuse, but because to millions among Turkey’s Kurdish minority, Abdullah Ocalan (whose portrait beamed down from the walls of the HDP offices) remains the symbolic head of their decades-long fight for dignity and human rights. In Turkey, where the label “terrorist” is applied with as much cynicism and bigotry as in Israel, the picture of Ocalan hangs over the fragile peace
Entry #1677: Same-sex marriage in Syria
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| Value | Legal | Banned |
| Start Date | Jun 22, 1949 | 1949 |
| Description | Recognised in Rojava, Assad also said he supports gay marriage himself | Same-sex marriage or civil unions are not legal |
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Recognised in Rojava, Assad also said he supports homosexual marriage himself Lgbtq+ marriage or civil unions are not legal
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| Value | Unrecognized | Legal |
| Description | Syria does not legally recognize queer marriages within the country of Syria. | Recognised in Rojava, Assad also said he supports gay marriage himself |
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Some two or three weeks ago I went to a public discussion with a Greek anarchist who volunteered in Rojava as part of the International Freedom Batallion’s Queer Insurrection and Liberation Army (the people who set an LGBTQ flag in Raqqa), and talked to him for a bit afterwards. He was very honest about his experience, and the things he said were actually even kind of worse than I expected, but he’s still pro-YPG. I’ll copypaste a “report” from the discussion I wrote in another group. Structurally, the PKK is still mostly the old Stalinist formation which had to find a way to obtain a PR facelift after the USSR broke up and they stopped getting Soviet weapons. A minority genuinely believes in the modern official doctrine (not that it’s much better in itself), while for a greater part it’s just a self-aware marketing ploy. Democratic confederalism and those participatory assemblies are barely practical and exist mostly in theory, because “wartime conditions create them impractical”. The thing about the Rojava “Revolution” not being a national liberation strife — but a multiethnic one — something which is often repeated by Western anarchists, is something nobody over the The Rojava experimentThis article is a preview from the Spring 2017 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. The brutal recapture of Aleppo by Syrian government forces and its allies at the conclusion of 2016 does not bode well for another enclave of resistance: the predominantly Kurdish area in northern Syria. Here, in a long strip of land that runs almost continuously from east to west along the border with Turkey, a fundamental secular experiment with women in the driving seat has been under way since 2012. Most journalists are, understandably, preoccupied with the death, destruction and refugee stories that have show up to define Syria. But it means that many politically engaged people in Britain have never heard of Rojava, the call Kurds give to this part of their homeland, the whole of which is divided between Syria, Turkey, Iraq and Iran. I was one of the last journalists to be allowed to cross the border from Iraqi Kurdistan in March 2016. The contrast between the two predominantly Kurdish areas in Syria and Iraq could not have been more stark. On the Syrian side, there was not a mall, billboard, skyscraper or motorway in sight – almost a rural idyll | ||