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…
The Defend Kurdistan Initiative called on everyone to mobilize against Turkish attacks on Rojava and said: “Organise urgent meetings to raise awareness; create your local Defend Kurdistan groups and platforms; Take action! Mobilise, disobey, block – Smash Turkish fascism.” The statement released by the Defend Kurdistan Initiative on Sunday reads as follows: After months of war crimes, chemical warfare and…
Facing this panorama, there is only one reality: we cannot continue surviving in this project of death that dispossesses our territories and our lives. It is not a question of changing a progressive government because here, as in other territories, this has already happened, and it is these same governments that have also continued to…
The full blooming of the Flower of Transformation is going to involve difficult, long-term struggles. But what the Kurdish society is trying to achieve can be called a ‘nowtopia’ in the making, and many more are visible on the horizon around the world, a veritable Pluriverse of practices and worldviews. Imagine this scenario. Drones are…
In the first part (1), an attempt was made to give a small insight into the discussions on the democratic nation and nationalism. In particular, the apoist historical perspective was examined and statehood and nationalism were elaborated as preconditions for capitalist modernity. In this part, several ideologies from Protestantism via liberalism to capitalism, will be…
