The Rojava Revolution and the Uprisings in Iran - Part 1

Woman, Life, Freedom – the ideas that inspired the Rojava revolution and the popular uprising in Iran. That’s the topic of this week’s show and next week’s.Nilüfer Koç, Executive Council member and spokesperson for the Commission on Foreign Relations of the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) will share some of the new ideas inspiring the Kurdish-led feminist and green revolutionary movement that has liberated north and east Syria (Rojava) and its spread to other parts of Kurdistan, including Rojhelat (East Kurdistan currently in Iran).Koç. who spent most of the period from 2013 to 2018 in southern Kurdistan (Kurdistan-Iraq) and Rojava, will explain how the active and autonomous participation of women in all fields of society and politics (a core objective of this revolutionary movement) relates to respect of nature and ecology. She gave a keynote address at the ecosocialism conference hosted by Green Left Weekly and Socialist Alliance on the weekend of 1 & 2 of July.