Hope Without Hope: Matt Broomfield on Rojava and Revolutionary Commitment

Drawing on three years living and working in Rojava, journalist Matt Broomfield argues that the Western Left should reaffirm its commitment to hope in hopeless times by learning from the Kurdish movement.

Matt Broomfield is a British journalist, poet, and organizer. From 2018 to 2020, he spent three years living and working in Rojava (North and East Syria), where he cofounded the Rojava Information Centre, the top independent, English-language news source connecting the Kurdish-led autonomous regions with the international press. His writing has appeared in the Independent, New Statesman, VICE, The Nation, and Jacobin, among others.