Our Day Will Come: Lessons From the Armed Struggle of the PIRA

The armed campaign of the Provisional Irish Republican Army against the British state lasted several decades and claimed thousands of lives. In the end, the group did not manage to completely eject British influence from its home turf of Northern Ireland, and the results it did achieve were only a fraction of the original goals …

Rojava/NES: An Experiment in Middle Eastern Democracy

Crowds inside NES territory. (STR/AFP/Getty Images) The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (NES) was born out of the conflagration that has come to be known as the Syrian Civil War. It would take a decently sized book to detail every phase of this 8 yearlong conflict, but the residents of the area commonly …