Zapatista and Kurdish Women’s Struggles
In both the Zapatista movement and the Kurdish freedom movement, women’s freedom is seen as central to the strategy (and meaning) of building democratic autonomy.
Democratic Confederalism
In this foundational text of the Rojava revolution, imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan lays out the basic ideas of Democratic Confederalism, a revolutionary framework for reorganizing society on the basis of community self-governance.
The Communes of Rojava (video)
This video by Neighbor Democracy summarizes the local structures and practices of direct democracy that shape the governing system of Democratic Confederalism in Rojava (North-East Syria).