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 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 April 1995, a few months before the start of the World Conference on Women in Beijing, the First Lady of the USA, Hillary Clinton, visited Bangladesh. Hillary visited the women from the village of Maishahati and asked them questions. The women all answered proudly: Yes, they had their own income and also their own…
This is an extract from the 4th volume of the “Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization” written by Abdullah Öcalan. This book is being translated into English, Spanish and has been published in German. This portion has been chosen due to its urgent relevancy to the questions what it means for a society to become democratic…
Political Context of Öcalan’s Call It is not often today that a socialist people’s movement makes the front pages of the world’s media. On February 27, Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the Kurdish freedom movement, shared a two-page letter with the people and the world, which certainly reached the headlines of all major media worldwide….
Last week, excerpts from an open letter by Pakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to death, titled “Concealment of Truth and Its Alternative,” were circulated on social media. The following text is a translation of the complete version of Pakhshan Azizi’s letter published by Bidarzani on 27 July, 2024. In her letter, Azizi details…
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…
“Only self-defense will make peace possible. A peace with no self-defense can only be an expression of submission and slavery. Liberalism today imposes on societies and peoples peace with no self-defense. The unilateral game of democratic stability and reconciliation is nothing but a fig leaf on the bourgeois class domination achieved by the armed forces….
Defining militarism as the most advanced anti-society monopolism, Öcalan writes: “The military has always been the power that has penetrated, controlled, and subjugated society regardless of the form of the state, but it reached its apex in the era of the middle class (bourgeois) and under nation-state monopoly.” With “Sociology of Freedom”, the third volume…
