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Hope Without Hope: Rojava and Revolutionary Commitment

Hope Without Hope: Rojava and Revolutionary Commitment

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PhilosophyGeneral Political ScienceSocial Movements

Publisher Price: $22.00

ISBN10: 1849355665
ISBN13: 9781849355667
Publisher: AK Press
Published: Jul 15 2025
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

The militants of Rojava, and the autonomous society they've built, teach us how to kindle hope for the tireless fight against oppression.

Drawing on three years living and working in Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan), journalist Matt Broomfield argues the militant Kurdish movement can help the Western left relearn its commitment to hope in hopeless times. The bloodshed and chaos of the Syrian Civil War have paradoxically produced our generation's most significant revolution. Firsthand observations from the heart of Rojava's movement inform Broomfield's critical engagement with its theory and practice and, inevitably, its compromises and contradictions. In the face of crises set to define the coming century--proxy conflict, resource competition, state collapse, climate catastrophe--the Kurdish movement has produced an unexpected, utopian response: an autonomous society organized outside of the nation-state, run by direct democracy and along feminist and ecological principles, surviving despite overwhelming military opposition.

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