Shared resistance history: Kurdish-Palestinian struggles in the 1980’s
PLO commanders and Abdullah Ocalan meeting in the Beqaa Valley, early 1980’s.
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Religious Fanaticism and Liberalism – The Palestinian Movement Targeted for Liquidation
Cemil Bayık, Co-Chair of the Kurdistan Democratic Communities Union (KCK) In the first part of Cemil Bayık’s analysis, the focus is on the statist paradigm as the cause of the Middle East conflict, while the analysis in the present part examines the role of religious ideology and liberalism in the Middle East conflict as well…
The statist paradigm as the cause of the Middle East conflict
Cemil Bayık, Co-Chair of the Kurdistan Democratic Communities Union (KCK) Based on Abdullah Öcalan’s conception of history, which goes beyond the statist (1) paradigm and looks at historical developments from the perspective of a socialist paradigm, Cemil Bayık analyses the current situation in the Middle East and in particular the Arab-Jewish question and uses it…
Kurdistan and the Middle East: Developments and Prospects for a Democratic Solution
The Gaza war has shaken the political balance in the Middle East. ADM analyses the latest developments in the region and outlines prospects for democratic solutions. With the ongoing war in Gaza and Israel since the beginning of October 2023, the so-called “Middle East conflict” has once again moved to the centre of international public…
Autonomous organisation as a principle of women’s liberation
Women organise themselves autonomously within Kurdistan Liberation Movement. What is behind it and how does it work? Çiğdem Doğu (KJK) explains the ideological and structural approach of the Kurdish women’s liberation movement. Çiğdem Doğu, a coordinating member of the KJK (Kurdistan Women’s Community), spoke in a programme on Jin TV about the “organising” aspect of…
The challenge of democratizing national liberation struggles in the Philippines
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…
Review: The “Art of Freedom”-Conference organised by the Academy of Democratic Modernity
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…
The women’s emancipatory pedagogical approach of Jineolojî
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…
From Denial to Revolution: Experiences of National Liberation in the World
“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…
The Challenges of a Kurdish Ecofeminist Perspective: Maria Mies, Abdullah Öcalan, and the Praxis of Jineolojî
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…