Posts in: indigenous struggles

Book review: Dark Emu

May 2019

It’s something of a truism, isn’t it? History is written by the victors — well, of course! What if that history still exists all around, yet there is an ideology which renders it invisible? Welcome to the settler state known as Australia. A place where the attempted, and quite deliberate, expungement of the world’s oldest… Read more »

En el Rojava kurdo: Siria pone en peligro a los luchadores por la libertad

abril 2019

En medio de la sangrienta guerra civil de Siria, los kurdos han forjado una región autónoma en el norte del país llamada Rojava. Con una población de varios millones de personas, muchas de las cuales son refugiadas, ha sido un albergue para todos aquellos que vienen huyendo del Estado Islámico (Daesh) y del dictador Bashar… Read more »

In Kurdish Rojava: Syria’s imperiled freedom fighters

April 2019

An excellent and rare description of the Kurdish people, their current autonomous region in Rojava, the role of feminism in the Kurds’ role of defeating ISIS, and an important analysis of Kurdish mixed political ideologies.