During the war against the Islamic State (from 2014), the U.S.-led coalition coordinated with Kurdish-led ground forces to defeat ISIS in Syria and Iraq. All but unreported in U.S. media, those Kurdish fighters represented a new society in northeastern Syria that, since 2012, had been advancing gender equality, religious and ethnic inclusivity, and bottom-up democracy.
This astonishingly progressive revolutionary project, which continues to this day, was inspired in great part by the writings of the late Murray Bookchin (d. 2006). His collaborator and companion Janet Biehl tells the story.
