The Middle East is one of the places where, according to previous knowledge, the earliest human social formation took place. The region has experienced many social systems. After the Neolithic Age, patriarchy prevailed, laying the foundation for the separation of different religious or ethnic identities. For a long time, societies were torn apart by feudalism, nationalism and capitalist modernity.

Separate identities have come together with the revolution of Rojava

With the onset of the revolution seven years ago, the foundation has been laid for a democratic system that incorporates all identities. The society that had been fragmented for centuries began to reunite within a democratic model. This democratic system is growing on the basis of communes. While societies were ruled over and over again by orders from above, in Rojava society is determining its life and future through the communes themselves.

The population is organized in communes

The communes in northern Syria are formed according to the conditions in the neighborhoods. In each neighborhood 100-150 families come together and form a commune. In this way the first step to social organization is taken. The communes have up to 12 committees. These are committees for economics, peace/reconciliation, defense, administration, health, workers' organization, security, families of the fallen, social education, social needs, art and culture and press.

The communities in each neighborhood are organized and run by the established council. One of these neighborhoods is Korniş in Qamişlo. In the neighborhood there are 58 communes. Of these communes, three are Assyrian and Armenian, three Arabic and 52 Arabic and Kurdish mixed.

There is no separation in the communes

One of the Arab-Kurdish communes in the neighborhood is the commune of Şehîd Berxwedan Betal. Of the co-chairpersons of the commune, one is Kurdish and the other is Arab. Co-Chair Salîhe Xidir Îbrahîm emphasizes that no distinction is made between the peoples, and that as an Arab she can say so very clearly. Salîhe Îbrahîm reports that the communes have started to jointly organize services in each area of ​​the neighborhood. The women have also begun to organize themselves in communes and to lead a freedom struggle in this context.

In the Şehîd Athro (Sohdo H. Athro) commune Armenians and Syriacs are organized. The co-chair of the commune, Viyolet Hena stressed that the peoples are united by the communes. The other co-chair, Hemazasap Krpko Reban talked about the common life that the inhabitants of the neighborhood are now building together.

Communes are centers of the people's will

The co-chair of the commune of Şehîd Fexrî, Hisên Berzencî, spoke of a century-long oppression of the peoples by the state system. But now the communes have become the centers of the people's will.