Interview with Jasper Bernes, author of “The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising” Recently, the Kurdistan Freedom Movement (KFM) has once again seen a resurgence in the concept of communes. While this concept is not new to the KFM, its imprisoned leader, Abdullah Öcalan, has explicitly shifted…
The International Network of Communal Democracy denounce in the strongest terms the criminal imperialist aggression and bombing by the United States against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. We condemn this act of war that threatens the sovereignty, peace and life of the Venezuelan people. At this critical moment more than ever we reaffirm our unwavering…
Context and objectives People’s Power in the Latin American left is a central concept that refers to the active and direct participation of the people in political and social decision-making. This concept has been promoted mainly by Marxism, an ideological trend influencing several revolutionary movements in Latin America. Far from a closed-frame ideology, it’s more…
The first quarter of the 21st century is now behind us. The tradition of civilisation based on power remains in place. War and conflict continue to be the most talked about reality, threatening the future of humanity. We are living under the conditions of a Third World War. Violence and power strugges, often resulting from…
Interview with Cejna Alwoz, member of the Kurdistan Women’s Movement, on the history of links between the Kurdistan Women‘s movement and the movements in Abya Yala, and her perspective on the 2026 women’s conference. The ties between the Kurdistan Liberation Movement and the movements of Abya Yala—those of women, indigenous peoples, and youth—are very strong….
A dialogue on peace, non-violence, and self-governance This is a recorded transcript of a conversation that was held on 30 June 2025, between Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (also known as Mahatma Gandhi) and Abdullah Öcalan, activist-ideologue leader of the Kurdish freedom struggle. It took place in Imrali Prison, on a Turkish island, where Öcalan has been…
Thousands of people are dancing in the streets of Belém, an Amazonian city chosen to host COP30, where nation-state representatives have gathered to discuss how they will confront the climate crisis. Wearing blue garments and straw hats, the people move synchronised to the beats of batucada in a complex pattern of movements. A sea of…
Şehîd Lêgerîn (Alîna Sanchez), an Argentinian physician, joined the Kurdish movement and gave her life for the revolution. She played a significant part in fostering connections between the struggles in Kurdistan and South America. She contributed to building the healthcare system in Rojava, among many other things, and her legacy lives on to this day….
The current historic moment unites all those who struggle for socialism in one common stance: insistence on socialism. Socialist movements around the world, as well as individuals or circles concerned with this question, experienced the most intense diversity of views and debates on socialism in the nineteenth century. The nineteenth century is marked as the…
In December of 2022 a woman with silver jewellery on her forehead and chest, black and white decorative dress and a voice full of memory and strength, addressed the 800 or so women in the aula. The speech was given during the Women Weaving Future international conference in Berlin. It was a historically important event…
