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…
What led up to the protests “If we lose contact with the flotilla for 20 minutes, we will block all of Europe,” said the port workers in Genoa at a rally in support of the Sumud flotilla. For many Italian collectives that we have spoken to during our visit to Italy, this marked a turning…
In Madagascar, the same forces that helped put the current president Rajoelina in power are now turning against him and joining the protesters in the latest wave of demonstrations. The protesters have been demonstrating due to a collapsed electricity system and overall systemic instability. In Italy, one million people marched in support of Gaza, also…
– Epistemologies of Rebelliousness, the Legacy of Abdullah Öcalan This is a prologue written by Rosario Aquim for the colombian edition of the book “Sociology of Freedom”, written from the Imrali prison by Abdulah Öcalan. I. Between vines and bars: creating a crack in the cell of the world. An invitation from the rebellious Amazon…
