Syria: Why Rojava is different

Jemma Nott explains Why Rojava is different.

With the odds stacked against them, the YPG and YPJ have taken back 20 towns from the IS in the past year — which is a greater achievement than the Levant Front, Hazzm Movement and Al-Nusra put together. What sets Kobane apart from other fighting militias is that their fight is more ideological than it ever will be physical — a fight not just for the liberation of Kurdistan or Syria but a fight for human liberation.

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A superior politcal and economic system has a good chance of prevailing over an inferior one because the former is able to mobilise and deploy resources is a better and more focused manner.