After the loss of Afrin to the Turkish army, much of the Afrin-Rojava information services fell silent for a while, even as the multi-tendency Rojava Movement continued to grow in the West. After two decades of focusing on Islamist radicalization, the rapid Rojavist Anarcho-Maoist radicalization of the extreme Left took many by surprise. (The scale of it is still little recognized.) There are now five major categories of Rojavists, with increasingly fewer actual Kurds involved as the distance from north Syria increases. >The tendencies are: (1) actually existing SDF/YPG Rojava movement in north Syria; (2) the Rojava movement of actual Kurds in the West; (3) Rojavists in support of the SDF/YPG; (4) Rojavists of he pro-Kurdish human rights activists; and (5) Rojavists of the Street: Anarchists, Anarcho-Maoists and ANTIFA. All of these movements are integrated to some extent with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) networks. Inevitably, these groups outside Syria are intermingled with each other and with the hundreds of leftists groups that can be found in every region. When green-masked Rojavists militias join in protest coalitions in Portland, Oregon as the security force, they are part of coalitions that include hundreds of organizations, businesses and foundations. The ideological power of the Rojavist ideal has converted many old line groups like Eugene Antifa (now United Communists of Lane County), the original “Black Bloc”. The Rojavist ideologies (Murray Bookchin’s Democratic Confederalism, Dual Power, Municipalism, and Abdullah Ocalan’s Jineology, a kind of Proletarian Feminism) have been adopted in part by a broad spectrum of left and anarchist groups, mainly in the United States, Britain and Germany. But even as the growing ranks of combat volunteers returning from Rojava militarizies the extreme left, the growing ranks of foreign fighter martyrs from Iceland to California, to Argentina, to Bristol’s very own, and now iconic Anna Campbell, a worldwide revolutionary tendency can be mapped. An annotated bibliography including analytical essay, abstracts and documents. (Al-Qaeda & Jihadi Movements Worldwide (AQJM) is a subset of Middle East Abstracts & Index (MAI). MAI Vols. 43E1-E2; AQJM Vol. 114-115.)
(PB): Two volumes: $870.
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