No Money, No Water, No life’ Introduction The ‘water question concentrates and reflects within itself all the elements of exploitation, oppression and discrimination’ that characterise our societies. It is no exaggeration to say that ‘the quality and condition of our whole society’ (whether national or international) ‘depends on water’. In South Africa, the realities of…
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…
The Third World War has rapidly gained momentum in recent weeks and months – and has thus thrust the Middle East back into the global spotlight with full force as one of the centers of this war. The war in Palestine, a direct military exchange between Israel and Iran and the severe turmoil in Turkey…
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…
