14-16 February 2025 in Vienna/Austria The Peoples’ Platform pursues to collectively develop strategies and tactics and to take decisive steps towards an organized force in Europe. Our aim with this platform is to achieve more than just an exchange of experiences. We want to contribute towards joining forces, coordinating our struggles, and creating a common…
Global Days of Events from 15th to 22nd June 2024 A call from the Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan Campaign Committee Abdullah Öcalan has been in solitary confinement in Turkey for over 25 years and has been cut off from the outside world. The last time he was able to meet his lawyers was in August…
This brochure is a compilation of four interviews analysing the Kurdish and Palestinian resistance. The huge solidarity shown worldwide in the face of the genocide against the Palestinian people has drawn the attention again to the Middle East. In the midst of this chaos and genocide, a strong historical consciousness is needed to find long-term solutions. These interviews give an insight and analysis on the political situation in the Middle East, and share possible solutions for the Kurdish and Palestinian quests for freedom.
Alongside radical democracy and women’s liberation, ecology is also a central pillar in the paradigm of democratic modernity. Against the backdrop of the ever-advancing climate catastrophe and the necessary discussion about a proper strategy for ecological movements worldwide, Öcalan’s ideas summarised in this brochure take on a special significance. While aggressive capitalism is confronting the environment in many parts of the world – such as the targeted ecocide in Kurdistan or neo-extractivism in Latin America – Öcalan’s proposals and the visible attempt to implement them in Kurdistan may be the right recipe for a world plagued by environmental destruction.
We are announcing the Conference of Science for Society, which will take place in Ljubljana and Koper (Slovenia) between April 8 and 12, and at which we will talk about the revolutionary political thought of Kurdistan. The Kurdish people live divided between four Middle Eastern countries whose borders were drawn by colonialism. Women’s protests in…
Duran Kalkan is a co-founder and member of the Executive Committee of the PKK. In this extensive interview, he talks about how to understand democratic socialism in the new paradigm and the importance of social sciences. In addition to the history of democratic civilisation, he describes how to understand state and revolution. Furthermore, he discusses the question of the revolutionary vanguard in the construction of democratic modernity as well as the class question. The interview was conducted in May 2023 in the Medya Defence Areas (Southern Kurdistan).
The Art of Freedom: Strategies for organising & collective resistance / Event-Film of the Conference Over 180 people from 5 continents, 30 countries, and various organisations, movements and parties travelled to Basel from 17 to 19 November for the conference entitled “The Art of Freedom – Strategies for organising and collective resistance”, convened by the…
Conference announcement-ADM- ArtofFreedom.pdf Program_ADM_Conference_ArtfFreedom.pdf The event At this conference, in the face of the growing crisis of capitalist modernity and its multiple manifestations, we will primarily address paths out and perspectives on solutions. What are the fundamental aspects of the urgent and radical intellectual, moral and political renewal of opposition to the system? Starting from…
International Conference – July 28th, 29th and 30th – Bogotá (Colombia) How to live together in this world? That is the question that guides this initiative. For today it seems easier to imagine social collapse than the liberation of peoples. We need to put into dialogue the actions, paradigms, thoughts and ideologies of each region…
Abdullah Öcalan poses the question of what role culture plays in social transformation. In particular, in Volumes I, II, III and V of “Manifesto of Democratic Civilization”, he explores the question of how cultural resistance to the homogenization of the nation-state expresses itself: “Traditions and cultures are acts of resistance in and of themselves. They will either be destroyed or will survive, because their character is such that they do not know how to capitulate. At the next opportunity, their very nature requires that they resist even more vigorously. Nation-state fascism failed to take this reality into account. Suppressing them, even assimilating them, does not necessarily mean that they will cease to exist.”
