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One Year After the Fall of Assad | Heatwave One year after the fall of Assad, war has returned to Syria once again. The transition agreements signed by Mohammed al-Jolani and Mazlum Abdi in March of 2025 have been scrapped. Despite their best e...

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Today, the SDF and Rojava find themselves at a crossroads: “The future of Rojava is less clear than it was a year ago.. Neighboring states with imperialist ambitions are once again vying for control of a Syria that is primed for a war between Al-Qaeda in a three-piece suit and the SDF.”

These early agreements were scrapped in January, 2026 as the STG ramped up an offensive against the SDF, “The current sequence of events began in early January, when two historic Kurdish neighborhoods in Aleppo—Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh—were brutally attacked by the new army of the STG.”

The fall of Assad’s regime came as a welcome relief for many Syrians: “Syrians across the diaspora celebrated the collapse of the regime, convinced that whatever came next would have to be better.” Agreements were struck in early 2025 between the STG and the SDF to preserve DAANES autonomy.

It’s been one year since the Assad regime fell, prompting a sequence of events that culminated in a new government leading Damascus under Mohammed al-Jolani, an ex-militant in al-Qaeda's Syrian wing. Here, Têkoşîna Anarşîst evaluates the previous year and the existential threat facing Rojava today.

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Bad Bunny is the first international figure to recognize Quebec as part of Latin America.

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Colapso y Desvio’s analysis is much more than a cautionary tale of the winds that extinguish the fires of struggle; it is a resounding reminder that the true character of a revolt can be found in its mechanics, its targets, its composition, and its historical resonances.

The persistent characterization of the Chilean revolt as merely a “social explosion” ultimately produced a managerial project in which social structures can be endlessly reconstituted within the confines of capitalism and on the comfortable terrain of democracy.

The death of the revolt at the hands of democracy was foregrounded by popular narratives that diluted the political content of gestures like fare evasion and romanticized the particular subjectivity of the student, while undermining the cross-class composition of the struggle.

Situating the revolt in Chile within its revolutionary lineage and its particular confrontation with capitalism on the playing field of democracy, "Treatise for the Youth in Revolt" insists that the popular struggle was, at its core, anti-democratic.

The student jumping the turnstile became an icon of Chile’s 2019 uprising. Lesser known are its echoes of the mass fare evasion of the 1957 Battle of Santiago and how the political refusal of the gesture extended to attacks on mining infrastructure in neighboring cities.

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Subscribe | Heatwave Heatwave is a multi-media project dedicated to sharing experiences and strategizing together in preparation for the next round of struggles to break free from the infernal prison of capital.

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Maybe Joshua put it best: in the end, “it comes down / to comrades known and elsewhere.”

Hurricane Season | Heatwave Jean Maro demonstrates that climate change has serious implications for Country music by teasing out the anxieties present in The Castellows' 2024 cover of Leon Everette's

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Jasper Bernes's “Red May Theses" is also dedicated to Joshua, his long-time comrade and co-author.

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Comrades Known and Elsewhere | Heatwave When Joshua passed away in late April, social media was filled with a cornucopia of similar stories from those lucky enough to see him in his element: at the riot, the occupation, the barricade.

The editorial for Issue 2 is dedicated to the late Joshua Clover. A comrade and friend to many, Joshua stands as a model of theoretical rigor, ecumenicism, and commitment to the incendiary spirit of the communist project. heatwavemag.info/magazine/iss...

Sher Singh dedicated his long life to the communist movement and to the poor and working people of India. In "Remembering Sher Singh," his comrades recall his insistence on thinking and writing "of and from the workers’ side."

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The Murder of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi | Heatwave Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi was a Palestine liberation activist from Seattle, Washington in the USA who was murdered by the Israeli Occupation Forces at a Palestinian demonstration in the West Bank in late 2024...

Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi traveled with the ISM to the West Bank, where she was murdered by Israeli Occupation Forces. In this interview transcript, her comrade reflects on Ayşenur's dedication and the complexities of Palestine solidarity. heatwavemag.info/magazine/iss...

In Issue 2, we take time to remember fallen comrades. Although they are no longer with us, their memories continue to serve as shining lights amidst the darkness of the present.

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If the piece begins by enumerating the qualities of the revolution, it ends by sketching an outline of communism itself—common production for common use, planned via transparent and tractable mechanisms available for and accountable to all.

Drawing on the examples of the Paris Commune and 20th century workers’ councils—"the only new invention of the communist movement in the 20th century"—Bernes distills their successes and failures into a description of communism that is at once abstract and practical.

“The first condition of revolution is the destruction of the repressive state…All other conditions depend on the first.” So begins Jasper Bernes’s “Red May Theses,” which sketches the minimum conditions for communism as a revolution of the "vast majority of humanity."

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