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…
Presentation of the People’s Congress (Colombia) in the panel “The question of bottom-up organization and internationalism”, part of the conference of the Academy of Democratic Modernity “The Art of Freedom”. Part I – Introduction to the Political Struggle of the People’s Congress: The Colombian government is highly militarized within the region of Abya Yala, but…
Speech by Shadia Abdelmoneim, political secretary of the Sudanese Communist Party branch in Germany, entitled “The roots of the conflict and the Sudanese vision of democracy” in the panel “Between people’s power and liberal democracy – Traps and necessities in the struggle for liberation”. Dear comrades Companions in the struggle for a better world in…
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…
Since the 1980’s, Abdullah Öcalan has always used the international day of struggle of the working class as an opportunity to analyse the situation of the world socialist movement and to derive perspectives for the struggle for self-determination and socialism in Kurdistan and the Middle East. After his abduction and imprisonment on the 15th of…
PLO commanders and Abdullah Ocalan meeting in the Beqaa Valley, early 1980’s.
