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New book gives inspiring account of Rojava’s revolutionary bid for autonomy and women’s liberation

Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy & Women’s Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan
By Michael Knapp, Anja Flack & Ercan Ayboga (translated by Janet Biehl)
Pluto, 2016
285 pp., $38.95

Rojava, which is Kurdish for the “west”, is to be found in Northern Syria. In the middle of a conflict zone, marked by the war against the Assad regime, a Turkish invasion and ongoing conflict with the brutal jihadists of ISIS and al-Nusra, the Kurds and their allies are creating a new kind of democratic system.

Groom tries to fiddle the numbers

By Dave Wright HOBART — The Groom Liberal government is trying to cut the number of members in the House of Assembly from 35 to 30. The effect will be to weaken significantly Tasmania's democratic proportional representation voting system.

Get your action on TV

Get your action on TV ASEED UK is inviting campaign groups from around the world to send in video material for Hot Spots — a weekly five minute radical environmental activist bulletin to be shown on Sky Television. Sky TV is a satellite

Radio highlights

Radio Skid Row-Koori Radio 2RSR-FM radiothon — From November 27 until December 4, Sydney's inner city public radio station 2RSR-FM (88.9) is holding its annual radiothon. Radiothon week will feature extra special programming, give-aways and prizes

Danger seen in Lucas Heights waste

Danger seen in Lucas Heights waste Storage facilities at Australia's Lucas Heights reactor have reached full capacity and a "crisis shipment" to the United States is needed, according to documents obtained by Greenpeace. Nuclear campaigner

Don't sit in the dress circle

Oz Shorts Two feature length programs screening on alternate nights until mid-DecemberAcademy Twin, Paddington and then in selected cinemas in most capital cities Reviewed by Norm Dixon When I was a just a little tacker, the highlight of the

Socialists launch campaign

Socialists launch campaign By Melanie Sjoberg ADELAIDE — The Democratic Socialists formally launched their state election campaign at a relaxed dinner on November 19. Andrew Hall, candidate for the seat of Adelaide, told supporters

Youth big losers in New Zealand austerity

By Ana Kailis AUCKLAND — With postal votes now counted, the National Party has retained government with 50 seats in the 99-member parliament. This result will only increase the alienation from mainstream politics felt by many young people in

Beyond the postcard Bali

Done Bali SBS Television 8.30 p.m. (8 Adelaide) November 30 Reviewed by Ignatius Kim Bali is to Australia what Acapulco is to the US: an escape for Western suburbanites that's seedy for some, exotic for others. Like Acapulco, Bali

Thousands demand: Justice now!

Story by John Nebauer and Karen Fredericks Photo by Miguel Troncoso While Keating and Hewson primped, preened and consulted their autocues for their televised Mabo speeches, thousands of Aboriginal people mourned the loss of yet another young

CIA paid off Haiti coup leaders

CIA paid off Haiti coup leaders US officials have admitted that the Central Intelligence Agency paid key leaders of Haiti's military from the 1980s at least until 1991, when the army deposed elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide in a bloody

Action updates

ADELAIDE — Around 200 women rallied on Sunday, November 14, to demand the repeal of all abortion laws. Barbara Baird, Lyndall Ryan and Margie Ripper spoke about the past, and present restricted access to abortion, and Melanie Sjoberg from the