The SDF have entered the Syrian state. Now the Kurds and Damascus are negotiating over the constitution, schools, the YPJ and power itself. Kobane’s revolution has left the battlefield and entered the ministries. In January 2015, Kobane was celebrating. There was not much left to celebrate with. The city had been torn open, houses stood like boxes without lids, and the streets were buried under rubble. But Islamic State had been driven back. The photographs travelled around the world: men and women of the YPG and YPJ, uniforms that seemed to belong more to the dust than to an army, fingers raised in victory. For a few months, everyone learned…