The term ‘Balochistan’ simply means ‘the land of the Baloch’ and has a significant national implication, associating the region with the Baloch people. The emergence of this name is linked to the development of a Baloch feudal nationality and the geographical expansion of the Baloch into the territory that still bears their name. This process…
14-16 February 2025 in Vienna/Austria The Peoples’ Platform pursues to collectively develop strategies and tactics and to take decisive steps towards an organized force in Europe. Our aim with this platform is to achieve more than just an exchange of experiences. We want to contribute towards joining forces, coordinating our struggles, and creating a common…
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…
In the quest to dominate society and woman the capitalist system has systematically removed us from ourselves, from our own identity. A person who knows oneself will also understand the system. Cigdem Dogu, a member of the KJK (Komelen Jinen Kurdistan, Kurdistan Women’s Community) Executive Council answers and poses questions on the struggle to get…
One of many elections in recent years was conducted in Venezuela on the 28th of July 2024. The official numbers showed a marginal victory for Maduro and unsurprisingly the right wing candidates decry election fraud, with the US jointing in the chant. But because they have been living a dystopic reality under Maduro’s rule the…
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…
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…
