“Freedom and equality achieved through nation states de facto only serve the monopolies, this has been shown all over the world. Power and capital monopolies never allow true freedom or equality. Freedom and equality can only be achieved through the democratic politics of a democratic society and protected through self-defence.” Abdullah Öcalan This article is…
A Third World War has been raging in the world for more than 30 years. Its centre is neither the former Soviet republics nor the countries of the Far East. For three decades now, the peoples of the Middle East have been feeling most acutely the massive dislocations caused by the ideological-organizational crisis of capitalist…
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 historical phase we are currently going through as societies has now reached a decisive point. Our era is often referred to as the final phase of Capitalist Modernity. At the same time, discussions about necessary changes and the search for a new system are becoming increasingly intense. Today, Capitalist Modernity is ideologically and paradigmatically…
We are now in the middle of the year 2021, and we can now venture to understand some of the fundamental trends of this year. Every political phase has its own dynamics. Actors, topics and places come to the fore, while aspects that previously seemed spectacular are forgotten. From the point of view of us…
Five years have now passed since 22-year-old trans activist Hande Kader was found dead in Istanbul. She was murdered after she had been subjected to the most horrific violence. She was known in the queer community for her resistance to police violence during the 2015 Istanbul Pride. Three years after, her friend Didem Akay committed…
The Kurdish people’s struggle for freedom has been waged for decades under the leadership of the PKK and along the lines of Rêber Apo’s [Abdullah Öcalan’s] ideas. In its course, it has led to important achievements not only in Kurdistan, Turkey and the Middle East, but worldwide. With each passing day, it becomes clearer that…
While in most Arab countries the left is in a prolonged retreat, we see how the Kurdish left succeeded to establish itself as the dominant force between the Kurdish masses in most of Kurdistan, even as it is divided between different nation-states. This makes the study of the Kurdish experience and of the revolutionary theory…
