Meredith Tax: Towards an Internationalist Foreign Policy

Published by Progressive International:

“Though Rojava's self-administration performs many functions usually ascribed to the state, it is an explicitly non-state system, based on direct democracy and local assemblies, with parallel structures for anything affecting women, and numerous other checks and balances. Decades in which elected political elites mainly served the rich have eroded their claims to represent all of us; as a result, the nation state has ceased to feel natural and inevitable, and increasing numbers of people are looking at alternative forms of social organization. One of the places they are looking is Rojava.

We propose a three-point plan for the international progressive movement as it works on foreign policy issues: building democratic popular assemblies and organizations, maintaining an inside-outside approach to state politics, and developing a strategic partnership with the feminist movement. With this combined approach, we believe the left can become strong enough to eventually defeat the right.”