From the October Revolution to Revolutionary Rojava: An Ecosocialist Reading

Seeds beneath the snow: Lefebvre, autogestion, and ecological questions

“…The violence of repression extinguished that political experience, but not its historical and social validity. That 'seed beneath the snow', as Ross (2015) describes it, was then taken up in the experience of the German and Italian workers' councils (Ness and Azzelini, 2011), in the forms of selfmanagement of the res publica in Spain before and during the civil war (Ragona and Quirico, 2021), or in the Zapatista Indigenous communities in Mexico (Tomba, 2019), and in the 'democratic confederalism' in Kurdistan (Saed, 2015).…”

Beyond Anarchy and Capital? The Geopolitics of the Rojava Revolution in Syria

“…Especially the 2014 failed siege of Kobane by IS has catapulted 'Rojava' into the international limelight. Various journalistic, activist and academic accounts have pointed to the significance of the political experiment in northern Syria, drawing parallels to the Paris Commune (Knapp and Jongerden 2014), the October Revolution (Saed 2017), or the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico (Hosseini 2016). This has produced a variety of comprehensive overviews (Cemgil and Hoffmann 2016;Colsanti et al 2018;Jain 2016;Knapp, Flach, and Ayboga 2015;Schmidinger 2018;Sunca 2021;Yegen 2016) as well as more focussed studies dealing with specific dimensions of the revolution and their wider significance for global social struggles.…”