From 24 to 30 September 2024, the 79th United Nations General Assembly was held in New York, attended by some 130 heads of state and government. During this General Assembly, the UN Summit of the Future took place in New York under the motto “Multilateral Solutions for a Better Tomorrow”. The reform plan negotiated there…
How should the rise of right-wing populist and fascist parties be categorised? How can fascism be conceptualised and what are its roots? What can effective anti-fascism look like? In the following, we will approach these questions from the perspective of the Kurdish mastermind Abdullah Öcalan, who deals intensively with the question “What is fascism?” in…
Speech by the Academy of Democratic Modernity in the conference The art of Freedom. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the Kurdish liberation struggle, proclaimed that ‘to insist on socialism means to insist on being human.‘ In the following discussion, I aim to explore the conception and understanding of…
The Gaza war has shaken the political balance in the Middle East. ADM analyses the latest developments in the region and outlines prospects for democratic solutions. With the ongoing war in Gaza and Israel since the beginning of October 2023, the so-called “Middle East conflict” has once again moved to the centre of international public…
Alberto Colin and Ali Cicek write about the experiences of struggle in Cherán, Mexico and Kurdistan, in order to compare similarities and differences in both revolutionary processes where democracy, ecology and the role of women are the pillars of a new society. The revolution in Kurdistan and its paradigm of democratic modernity have become an…
In her essay “On Revolution”, political theorist Hannah Arendt analyzes and compares the French, American and other revolutions to determine the “outstanding characteristics of the revolutionary spirit”. She recognizes these within the possibility of starting things with a new beginning, as well as in people’s collective action. Arendt is especially concerned with the question of…
Strengthening the Kurdistan Freedom Movement, which promotes an agenda independent of capitalist modernity and also concretely advances the construction of democratic modernity through the example of Rojava, is tantamount to strengthening all alternative, democratic actors worldwide. The first quarter of 2022 has passed which allows us to determine key characteristics and dynamics of the current…
“The virus is a mirror. It shows what kind of society we live in. We live in a survival society that is ultimately based on the fear of death. Today, survival is the absolute highest thing, as if we were in a permanent state of war,” comments South Korean-German philosopher Byung-Chul Han on society in…
