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…
Topics such as ethics-aesthetics, free life in partnership, Xwebûn, the transformation of the male are the subjects that generate the most lively discussions and interest. In these courses, the most intimate issues, which are often referred to as private life, can be discussed and questioned without any anxiety. Education is a woman’s work in its…
“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…
Abstract: Ecology, along with women’s liberation and radical democracy, is one of the major pillars of Democratic Confederalism, a new political paradigm developed by the Kurdish Freedom Movement through the voice of the PKK’s leader, Abdullah Öcalan. Scholars attribute the greening of the Kurdish agenda to the impact that the founder of Social Ecology, Murray…
The development of authority and hierarchy, even before the establishment of a class society, represents one of the most important turning points in history; a point that laid the foundation for patriarchal power. The institutionalization of patriarchy as a system to define and organize society and people would eventually transform into state power. A discussion…
In recent weeks, Western media attention has been fixated on the disappearance of a submarine, named Titan, which was on an expedition to explore the wreckage of the Titanic. The submarine had embarked on a deep-sea voyage, offering an exciting experience to a small group of affluent tourists who each paid $250,000 USD to attend….
The democratic forces that base their struggle for freedom, democracy and equality on the historical heritage of communal mother-based society will soon realise that through a more adequate historical-sociological analysis of their society they can better self-critically question defeats in their own history of resistance and thus develop more promising forms of organisation, programme, strategy…
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…
The conference Our Revolution: Liberating life, organized by the Network of Women Weaving the Future and promoted by the Kurdish Women’s Movement, was taken place on 5 and 6 November in Berlin. The interview was made before the conference. This conference stems from the need to strengthen the transnational organization of alliances between different women/feminist…
