In 2014, when David Graeber and others began claiming that a genuine anti-capitalist revolution was occurring in Syrian Kurdistan, the healthy reaction was scepticism. After all, the initiators of ...

The Anarchist Federation looks at the so-called "revolution" in Syrian Kurdistan, and the role of the PKK and compares the reality with the rhetoric. Submitted by the button on December 2, 2014 The ...

In the last part of Real Media’s interview, a special discussion with anthropologist David Graeber about anarchism, Syria, the bureaucracy of activism and his visit to Rojava where a new kind of ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. It's been three weeks since President ...

A region home to 4 million people in Northern Syria is looking to cryptocurrency as a way to overcome economic sanctions. Rojava, also known as the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, has spent ...

This week, we’re pre-releasing an interview with James Stout on his upcoming AK Press book: Against The State: Anarchists and Comrades at War in Spain, Myanmar, and Rojava, due out early January. You ...

Rooted in an intellectual tradition opposed to the state and deeply critical of hierarchy and authority, anarchist theory has historically developed radical alternatives to centralized power ...

Correction/clarification: Murray Bookchin was born in 1921 and was Janet Biehl's longtime partner. A previous version of this story misstated his birth year and in one instance lacked attribution to ...