“This exchange transforms Abya Yala and transforms us” – Interview with Cejna Alwoz

Interview with Cejna Alwoz, member of the Kurdistan Women’s Movement, on the history of links between the Kurdistan Women‘s movement and the movements in Abya Yala, and her perspective on the 2026 women’s conference. The ties between the Kurdistan Liberation Movement and the movements of Abya Yala—those of women, indigenous peoples, and youth—are very strong….

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Interview with Çiğdem Doğu, KJK: Questioning male hegemony and becoming oneself

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…

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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…

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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…

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The Communal Mother-based Society: A Necessary Return to the Basis of Social Resistance

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…

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The challenges of building the World Women’s Democratic Confederalism

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…

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