BLOGS & NEWS
The Kurdish Question. https://kurdishquestion.com/index.php
ANF News. http://anfenglish.com/
Dilar Dirik, Blog. http://dilar91.blogspot.com/
ANHA Hawar News Agency. http://en.hawarnews.com/
The Rojava Report. https://rojavareport.wordpress.com/
ARA News. http://aranews.net/
JINHA News. http://jinha.com.tr/en
Democratic Union Party News. http://en.pydrojava.com/category/news/
YPG News. https://www.ypgrojava.org/category/News
ARTICLES
General
Rojava: A Safe Haven in the Middle of Syria’s Brutal Civil War – Rahila Gupta. CNN. 2016.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/30/opinions/rojava-kurds-syria-democracy/
A Dream of Secular Utopia in ISIS’s Backyard – Wes Enzinna. New York Times. 2015.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/magazine/a-dream-of-utopia-in-hell.html
What the Syrian Kurds Have Wrought: The Radical, Unlikely, Democratic Experiment in Northern Syria – Si Sheppard. Atlantic Monthly. 2016.
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/10/kurds-rojava-syria-isis-iraq-assad/505037/
Turkish Anarchists on the Fight for Kobane – Interviews w/DAF. Crimethinc. 2014-2015.
http://crimethinc.com/texts/r/kobane/
Journey to Rojava – Interview w/Ercan Ayboga. Janet Biehl. 2014.
http://ercanayboga.blogspot.com/2014/12/interview-of-marx21-about-journey-to.html?m=1
Joint Statement of the Academic Delegation to Rojava – David Graeber, et al. Roarmag.org. 2015.
https://roarmag.org/essays/statement-academic-delegation-rojava/
The Rojava Revolution – Evangelos Araios. Opendemocracy.net. 2015.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/arab-awakening/evangelos-aretaios/rojava-revolution
The New PKK: Unleashing a Social Revolution in Kurdistan – Rafael Taylor. Roarmag.org. 2014.
https://roarmag.org/essays/pkk-kurdish-struggle-autonomy/
Regaining Hope in Rojava – Jo Magpie. Opendemocracy.net. 2016.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/arab-awakening/jo-magpie/regaining-hope-in-rojava
The Revolution in Rojava – Meredith Tax. Dissentmagazine.org. 2016.
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-revolution-in-rojava
Theory
What Is Social Ecology? –Murray Bookchin
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bookchin/socecol.html
Libertarian Municipalism –Murray Bookchin
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bookchin/libmuni.html
Democratic Confederalism – Abdullah Ocalan
http://www.freeocalan.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Ocalan-Democratic-Confederalism.pdf
The Bookchin-Ocalan Connection – Janet Biehl
http://www.biehlonbookchin.com/the-bookchin-ocalan-connection/
ROAR Magazine, Murray Bookchin and the Kurdish Resistance. Joris Leverink. 2015. https://roarmag.org/essays/bookchin-kurdish-struggle-ocalan-rojava/
Social Organization
The Kurds’ Democratic Experiment – Carne Ross. New York Times. 2015. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/opinion/the-kurds-democratic-experiment.html
A Model of Municipal Service in Rojava – Derik Municipality
http://dihanews.com/en/news/content/view/419726?from=180567116
Rojava’s Communes & Councils – Janet Biehl
http://www.biehlonbookchin.com/rojavas-communes-and-councils/
Democratic Autonomy in Rojava – New Compass
http://new-compass.net/articles/revolution-rojava
The Experiment of West Kurdistan (Syrian Kurdistan) Has Proved That People Can Make Changes – Zaher Baher
http://www.anarkismo.net/article/27301
Backgrounder on the Union of Communities in Kurdistan, KCK.
https://kurdishissue.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/1-29/
Introduction To The Political And Social Structures Of Democratic Autonomy In Rojava – Kurdishquestion.com
FAQ On the Communes and Councils – Janet Biehl
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Autonomy_Region_Rojava#FAQ_on_the_Communes_and_the_Councils
Rojava Dispatch 3: Members of Commune Sehid Kawa C Decide on New Boundaries – Paul Z. Simons
http://modernslavery.calpress.org/?s=rojava+dispatch+three
Building Democracy Without a State – Dilar Dirik
https://roarmag.org/magazine/building-democracy-without-a-state/
An Anarchist Perspective on Rojava’s Co-Ops and Communes – Worker’s Solidarity Movement
https://cooperativeeconomy.info/an-anarchist-perspective-on-rojavas-coops-and-communes/
Democratic Confederalism in Kurdistan – Corporate Watch
https://corporatewatch.org/news/2016/apr/18/democratic-confederalism-kurdistan
Document of the Democratic Federal System of Rojava – Northern Syria
http://supportkurds.org/document-of-the-democratic-federal-system-of-rojava-northern-syria/
The No State Solution: Institutionalizing Libertarian Socialism in Kurdistan – Alexander Kolokotronis
http://newpol.org/content/no-state-solution-institutionalizing-libertarian-socialism-kurdistan
Women
The Women Leading a Social Revolution in Syria’s Rojava – Newsweek
http://www.newsweek.com/women-leading-social-revolution-rojava-report-506611
The Women’s Revolution in Rojava – Janet Biehl
http://www.towardfreedom.com/38-archives/women/4017-the-women-s-revolution-in-rojava
Rojava Women Found Economy Assembly in Their City – JINHA
Everything Is Hard for Women in a Patriarchal Society – Syria Direct
Self-ruling Syrian Kurdish Region Issues Women’s Rights Decree – Assyrian International News Agency
http://www.aina.org/news/20141109134608.htm
Women Are the Guaranty of the Revolution in Rojava – ANF
https://rojavareport.wordpress.com/2013/09/29/women-are-the-guaranty-of-the-revolution-in-rojava/
Yekîtiya Star – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongreya_Star
Women Will Not Leave Their Freedom After the Revolution – ANF
Women Take the Initiative for Rojava – DIHA
https://rojavareport.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/women-take-the-initiative-for-rojava/
Rojava: The Women Who Wove a Revolution – JINHA
http://jinha.com.tr/en/ALL-NEWS/content/view/26680?page=2
Why Jineology?: Re-Constructing the Sciences towards a Communal and Free Life – Kurdishquestion.com
http://kurdishquestion.com/oldarticle.php?aid=why-jineology
The Kurdistan Woman’s Liberation Movement – PKKonline.com
http://www.pkkonline.com/en/index.php?sys=article&artID=180
Interview With the World’s First Army of Women – Evren Kocabıçak
http://maoistroad.blogspot.com/2015/08/interview-with-worlds-first-army-of.html
Women’s Protection Units – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Protection_Units
Economics
Syrian Kurds’ Spending Plans Reflect Rising Ambitions – Reuters
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0Q21BK20150728
Rojava’s Threefold Economy – Janet Biehl
http://www.biehlonbookchin.com/rojavas-threefold-economy/
Rojava – The Formation of an Economic Alternative: Private Property in the Service of All – Michael Knapp
Efrin Economy Minister: Rojava Challenging Norms of Class, Gender and Power – Özgür Gündem
Syrian Kurds Refine Oil for Themselves for First Time – Agence France Presse
https://www.yahoo.com/news/syrian-kurds-refine-oil-themselves-first-time-072900132.html?ref=gs
Communal Economy Grows in Rojava Despite War – ANHA
https://rojavareport.wordpress.com/2015/07/31/communal-economy-grows-in-rojava-despite-war/
6 Notes on the Economics of the Rojava Revolution – Novaramedia.com
http://novaramedia.com/2015/02/03/6-notes-on-the-economics-of-the-rojava-revolution/
The Experience of Co-Operative Societies in Rojava – The Hampton Institute
http://www.hamptoninstitution.org/cooperatives-in-rojava.html#.WDJMJS0rK71
Politics
Rojava Revolution: building autonomy in the Middle East – ROAR Magazine, Sandar Saadi. 2014.
https://roarmag.org/essays/rojava-autonomy-syrian-kurds/
Security
Asayish (Rojava Cantons) – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asayish_(Rojava_cantons)
In Kobani, Volunteers Cobble a Police Force – Syria Deeply
https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2013/04/23/in-kobani-volunteers-cobble-a-police-force
Rojava Dispatch Five: The YPG/YPJ; Militias That Grow Hope – Paul Z Simons
http://modernslavery.calpress.org/?p=935
War
Official People’s Defense Units (YPG) Website
https://www.ypgrojava.org/english
Official Women’s Defense Units (YPJ) Website
Syrian Democratic Forces – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Democratic_Forces
Syrian Kurdish – Islamist Conflict (2013 – Present) – Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Kurdish%E2%80%93Islamist_conflict_(2013%E2%80%93present)
Yazidis: Getting Ready to Fight Back – SBC. The Economist. 2015.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/pomegranate/2014/09/yazidis
Miscellaneous:
Building Autonomy in Turkey & Kurdistan – Interview w/ Revolutionary Anarchist Action
Forget the UN! Meet the Self-Determining Refugees in Kurdistan – Dilar Dirik
The Social Threads That Link the Zapatistas of Mexico & the Kurds of Rojava – Kurdishquestion.com
Anarchist Writers Resources on the Rojava Revolution
http://anarchism.pageabode.com/andrewnflood/resources-rojava-revolution-kurdistan-syria
BOOKS
Revolution in Rojava : democratic autonomy and women’s liberation in Syrian Kurdistan. Anja Flach, Michael Knapp, Ercan Ayboga. 2016.
A Road Unforeseen: Women Fight the Islamic State. Meredith Tax. 2016.
To Dare Imagining, the Rojava Revolution. Dilar Dirik (Editor); David Levi Strauss (Editor); Michael Taussig (Editor); Peter Lamborn Wilson (Editor. A Small Key Can Open a Large Door. AK Press. 2015.
Agha, shaikh, and state: the social and political structures of Kurdistan. Martin van Bruinessen.1992. London: Zed Books.
Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization. 2015. Abdullah Ocalan. New Compass Press.
Prison Writings. The Roots of Civilization. 2003. Abdullah Ocalan.
The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy. Murray Bookchin. Edited by Debbie Bookchin and Blair Taylor. Preface by Ursula K. Le Guin
A Small Key Can Open a Large Door: The Rojava Revolution. Edited by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. Combustion Books. 2014.
VIDEO
New World Summit, Dilar Dirik, 2014.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir8n_uuCmig
New World Summit, Fadile Yildirim (Kurdish Women’s Movement)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqw6IM7w464
New World Summit, Stateless Democracy: The Revolution in Rojava Kurdistan [part 1]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dte5iCbvoNY
Rojava revolution – A look at Co-operatives & assemblies – video with commentary in the text
http://anarchism.pageabode.com/andrewnflood/rojava-revolution-co-operatives-assemblies-video
VICE
(Part 1) Rojava: Syria’s Unknown War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2zxlFQxkQ4
(Part 2). Night Operation Against the Islamic State: The Battle for Rojava
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTTHkEe0c2Y
(Part 3). Kurds Assert Control of Hasakah: The Battle for Rojava
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqYEva7VE-I
(Part 4) A Syria Of Their Own & White Gold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79E2KajXos8
PBS Frontline, “Rise of ISIS” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceOv7TANdpg&index=29&list=PLpDa59LHOliFMQvSXXD15ybKAWJEtN3z5
Journeyman Pictures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtGCvl4dCxo
Pêşiya Malê, Riya Kubarê b’dare
ORGANIZATIONS & ALLIES
Free Ocalan! Cologn, GE. http://www.freeocalan.org/?p=197
Kurdish Student Union (Yekîtiya Xwendekarên Kurdistan) http://www.yxkonline.com/
Network for an Alternative Quest (NetworkAQ)
Leeds Friends of Rojava
New Compass Press (Oslo, Norway)
Kurdish Studies Center (Dortmund, Germany)
Black Rose Books