Table of Contents
Introduction: In Mehmet's Footsteps 1
Chapter 1 Feeling the Spirit of Revolution 13
Chapter 2 The Epic Resistance of Kobane 21
Chapter 3 YPG and YPJ: Revolutionists or Pawns of the Empire? 32
Chapter 4 'The Kurds': Internationalists or Narrow Nationalists? 41
Chapter 5 The Centrality of Women's Liberation in Northern Syria (Theory) 50
Chapter 6 The Centrality of Women's Liberation in Northern Syria (Practice) 62
Chapter 7 Rojavan Pedagogy: Where Students Are Also Teachers 71
Chapter 8 The Theory, Practice and Contradictions of Internationalism in Rojava 82
Chapter 9 Ocalan's Ideology: Establishing a Multi-Ethnic, Democratic Society 98
Chapter 10 Communes and Cooperatives: The Basis of Rojava's Society 105
Chapter 11 Shehid Namirin: To Live Like the Fallen Will Be Humanity's Revenge 115
Chapter 12 Heval Demhat's Blood Now Nourishes the Soil 121
Chapter 13 Post-ISIS, Will the US Soon Abandon Its Kurdish Allies? 128
Chapter 14 Final Word: A Pledge to Mehmet and to Humanity 136