Speech by Maurizio Coppola, member of the national coordination of Potere al Popolo in the panel «Between people’s power and liberal democracy – Traps and necessities in the struggle for liberation» This presentation aims to be a contribution to the strategic debate on “what is to be done?” in the specific context we entered in…
Speech by Raul Diaz, National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP, entitled “Perspectives of revolutionary organization in the Philippines” in the panel “The question of bottom-up organization and internationalism” Comrades and friends, Warm greetings from the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP). We are honored to have this opportunity to share with you our…
Self-determination and national liberation struggle in the Catalan Countries, Speech by the organisation Endavant from the Catalan countries in the panel: Perspectives of (national) self-determination and autonomy in the 21st century The Catalan Countries are geographically located in the south of the European continent and the west of the Mediterranean Sea. Administrative mainly under the…
Speech by Mahmut Şakar, lawyer of Abdullah Öcalan, from the Association for International Law and Democracy (MAF-DAD) in the panel “Perspectives of (national) Self-determination and autonomy on the 21st century”. In his presentation he elaborates on the proposals made by Öcalan, focusing on the Democratic Nation solution. The struggle for the liberation of Kurdistan, a…
In the following, we publish an interview with Sarah Raymundo from the organisation BAYAN in the Philippines about the political situation on the ground and the prospects for resistance. Could you present yourself and your organization? My name is Sarah Raymundo. I am an Assistant Professor at the Center for International Studies of the University…
The Art of Freedom: Strategies for organising & collective resistance / Event-Film of the Conference Over 180 people from 5 continents, 30 countries, and various organisations, movements and parties travelled to Basel from 17 to 19 November for the conference entitled “The Art of Freedom – Strategies for organising and collective resistance”, convened by the…
“I would like to leave behind the conviction that if we maintain a certain dose of prudence and organization we will deserve victory. (…) You can’t bring about fundamental change without a certain dose of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformism, from the courage to turn our backs on old formulas, from the…
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…
Duran Kalkan, member of the Executive Council of the Kurdistan Community of Societies (KCK), explains the system of democratic autonomy and democratic confederalism. How can we understand democratic autonomy or democratic confederalism? Is it a system that is regionally specific and therefore only able to address the Kurdish population? I can explain the democratic autonomy…
Chile has more than four decades of neoliberalism, inaugurated by the civil-military dictatorship (1973-1990). As a consequence of this, different areas of social life (education, health, social security, etc.) have undergone radical processes of privatization and commercialization. In addition, another central aspect of the model has been the intensive exploitation of natural commons such as…
