Workers Solidarity Movement (Ireland) Eyewitness audio recording of Zaher Baher of the Kurdistan Anarchists Forum looking at the experiences of self-management in the West Kurdisan region, experiments that have become more widely discussed as the result of the defense of Kobane against ISIS. The audio was recorded at the meeting organised by the London Anarchist Bookfair and KAF at LABF2014 Their description in the program for the bookfair read A comrade from the Kurdish Anarchist Federation (KAF) and Haringey Solidarity Group has just returned from Syrian Kurdistan. Speaking with numerious people while there, it seems there is a desire to run Western Kurdistan (the Syrian part) along broadly non hierarchical, and dare we say anarchist, lines. As the KAF member says, “The best example the ‘Arab Spring’ produced so far is the ‘movement of the democracy society’ in Syrian Kurdistan. This emerged from the bottom of society where everybody regardless of their nationalities, religions, beliefs and genders came together to build local groups, the ‘house of the people’, neighbourhood committees and the Communes”. This while a war is being raged against them by ISIS. You can listen to the audio recording at mixcloud/workerssolidarity/anarchist-eyewitness-to-self-management-in-kurdish-syria-west-kurdistan/ image: @hackneyglyn - display of a Kobane solidarity banner at the door of the bookfair after the meeting
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 02:08:26 +0000
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