Meredith Tax

Meredith Tax has been a writer and feminist organizer since the late 1960s. She is the author of A Road Unforeseen: Women Fight the Islamic State, among other books, and a founding member of the Emergency Committee for Rojava.

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Letters From the May 16/23, 2022, Issue Letters From the May 16/23, 2022, Issue

War in Ukraine… Ellen Willis on desire… The other existential threat…  Suffrage and struggle (web only)…

May 3, 2022 / Our Readers and Meredith Tax

CARASA demonstration

Where Is the Women’s Movement? Where Is the Women’s Movement?

Why do young feminists seem more interested in social media than in building feminist organizations? 

Apr 5, 2022 / Meredith Tax

A female soldier looks toward the camera, carrying a gun strapped to her shoulder. Other soldiers behind her congregate around an armored vehicle.

Turkey Helps ISIS Attack Rojava Turkey Helps ISIS Attack Rojava

The Kurdish people have sacrificed 13,000 lives in the fight against ISIS. Progressives should support their effort to build a secure base for direct democracy, feminism, and plura...

Feb 1, 2022 / Meredith Tax

Kurds

Time for Mutiny Over Turkey’s Bounties on Kurdish Leaders Time for Mutiny Over Turkey’s Bounties on Kurdish Leaders

Why is the Biden administration blindly following Donald Trump’s policy of propping up Turkey’s authoritarian president?

May 13, 2021 / Meredith Tax

Turkish Soldiers in Afrin

Showdown in Afrin: Turkey’s Attack on Syria’s Kurds Threatens That Country’s Most Democratic, Pluralist Force Showdown in Afrin: Turkey’s Attack on Syria’s Kurds Threatens That Country’s Most Democratic, Pluralist Force

The Kurds have said they will fight to the death before they give up an inch of Afrin.

Jan 26, 2018 / Meredith Tax

YPG fighter in Hasaka

The Syrian Kurds and Allegations of War Crimes The Syrian Kurds and Allegations of War Crimes

Critics respond to Roy Gutman’s special report on the Syrian Kurdish militia.

Feb 21, 2017 / Meredith Tax and Roy Gutman

Turkey Is Supporting the Syrian Jihadis Washington Says It Wants to Fight

Turkey Is Supporting the Syrian Jihadis Washington Says It Wants to Fight Turkey Is Supporting the Syrian Jihadis Washington Says It Wants to Fight

And our NATO ally is bent on destroying the Kurds of Rojava, the Syrian force with the most democratic, pluralistic, and feminist vision.

Sep 16, 2016 / Meredith Tax

Women’s Voices Women’s Voices

Through the corporate media's electronic collage of murders, sex scandals, celebrity sightings and Pentagon-generated fantasy can be heard a constant buzz--"war, terror, securi...

Aug 28, 2003 / Meredith Tax

Taslima’s Pilgrimage Taslima’s Pilgrimage

"A war was about to start. Knots of wide-eyed people gathered in courtyards, in open fields, on street corners....

Oct 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Meredith Tax

In the Year of Harry Potter, Enter the Dragon In the Year of Harry Potter, Enter the Dragon

Earthsea, Ursula Le Guin's magical world of islands and archipelagoes, is going through a period of intense, uncomfortable social change. The old ways no longer work and the new ...

Jan 10, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Meredith Tax

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