https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/01/the-battle-for-kobane/

Article talks about the threats from backstabbing "friends".
Right now there's a libertarian movement happening from Syria's Kurds.
The US-backed Kurds in Iraqi are corrupt nepotistic "democratic
capitalists" who want to create the next Dubai.

People are making the correct comparisons to the Spanish civil war:

> As I have said numerous times, the biggest threat to Rojava is not IS.
IS will collapse eventually and the people of Rojava will never accept
IS rule.
> The biggest threat to Rojava is the United States and the KRG. If you
want to compare this to the Spanish Revolution, The US takes the role of
Stalin and the USSR while the KRG takes the role of the Stalinists.
> I have no doubt in my mind that the presence of the Peshmerga in
Rojava at the moment is for the eventual backstabbing of the PYD. The
PYD really need to cement their system as fast as possible in the people.
> ~Kropotki

But we shouldn't doom this to failure just yet.

Are we forgetting the rise of IS? Their slick internet propaganda,
worldwide solidarity of jihadists flocking to create their new
caliphate. We also have this power. We live in new times.

History still can be reversed. Our path is not predetermined.
We are the power.