Posts by Arif Rhein

The Communal Mother-based Society: A Necessary Return to the Basis of Social Resistance

September 25, 2022

In a recent interview with Jacobin magazine, the US philosopher Nancy Fraser reflected on the foundations of our current way of life that might be useful as a basis for a free future. Referring to the work of representatives of the Frankfurt School, she said: “It was believed that there…

Assessment of the Current Political Situation: In Kurdistan as in the World – For a Self-Determined Society

POLITICAL ANALYSIS

July 24, 2022

Certain events lead to more than just a new political phase. The collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S. occupation of Iraq, or Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which began at the end of February, are events of such magnitude that they usher in long-term historical epochs or accelerate their dynamics.…

Can the left develop its own Middle East policy?

MOVEMENT

February 23, 2022

We need solutions for the crisis in the Middle East. The chaos in the region has been ongoing since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire one century ago. Since the first Gulf War in 1991, the region between the Maghreb states and Pakistan has been in a deep state of…

Offensive in the Struggle of Paradigms. A Look at the Current Global Political Situation

POLITICAL ANALYSIS

January 25, 2022

It is precisely now that the strategic alliances of all democratic forces are needed in order to pursue democratic politics together. If democratic politics can be expanded in everyday life – through alliances, communes, cooperatives, academies – states will be forced to find a different way of dealing with the pandemic.