Strategic Transformation? The PKK’s Self-Dissolution within the Framework of Democratic Modernity

Written by Yavor Tarinski To many the news of PKK dissolving itself came as a thunder bolt from the blue sky. Such a surprise mostly comes from an absence of knowledge on the writings of Öcalan and the project of Democratic Modernity that has been adopted by the Kurdish freedom movement couple of decades ago. […]

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May 13, 2025
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The Democratic Modernism of Svetozar Marković and Abdullah Öcalan

Written by Andrej Grubačić for the book Building Free Life: Dialogues with Öcalan (PM Press, 2020). Svetozar Marković, the founder of Balkan socialism, was arrested in January 1874. He was immediately jailed in the Serbian town of Kragujevac. For the police records Marković gave his occupation as a writer; the local authorities recorded that he […]

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April 24, 2025
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Brochure presentation of “Ecology: The Rebellion of the Environment”

On the 3rd of October, in collaboration with the Academy of Democratic Modernity, a presentation of Ocalan’s brochure “Ecology: The Rebellion of the Environment” will take place at our social space in Athens, from 19:00. More about the brochure HERE.

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September 29, 2024
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Ecology – The Rebellion of the Environment (brochure)

A brochure by the Academy of Democratic Modernity, entitled: “Ecology: The Rebellion of the Environment”. It is a compilation of the ideas of Abdullah Öcalan about ecological problems and needed solutions. Presenting the booklet, the Academy said: “Alongside radical democracy and women’s liberation, ecology is also a central pillar in the paradigm of democratic modernity. […]

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June 13, 2024
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Interview with John Holloway on the Kurdish Movement

Writer and activist Sarah Glynn interviews John Holloway during the Challenging Capitalist Modernity Conference in Hamburg. Below are some key points from the interview: What message does Abdullah Öcalan have for the wider anticapitalist movement? He opened my world in the sense of introducing a different geographical historical context. He traces things back to the […]

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April 16, 2023
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2022 Report of International Peace Delegation to İmralı

The International İmralı Peace Delegation 2022 conducted a research mission to Turkey to assess Öcalan’s situation after twenty-three years of incarceration between 13-14 February 2022. The delegation consisted of representatives of lawyer’s associations, human rights lawyers, trade unionists, politicians, academics and writers from across Europe. The delegation stated that “European institutions and the UN have […]

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June 14, 2022
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Institutionalizing the State of Exception: The İmralı Isolation Regime

Written by Faik Özgür Erol The Political Thought of the Imrali Prison Complex and the Öcalan Laws The attempt to understand the prison isolation of İmralı as a negative expression of a prohibition order does not do justice to the issue at hand. The weakness of this attempt lies in the desire to explain power […]

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February 17, 2022
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Press release: Arab translation of ‘Your Freedom and Mine’ confiscated by German authorities

  We have been just informed that the Arab translation of book that we co-edited, Your Freedom and Mine: Abdullah Öcalan and the Kurdish Question in Erdoğan’s Turkey, has been confiscated by the administration of Düsseldorf Airport while on transit in Germany and the owner is facing a criminal investigation. The authorities have justified their decision […]

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January 6, 2021
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The Evolution of the Kurdish Paradigm

  Written by Havin Guneser with Eleanor Finley What sets us apart as humans—especially those who struggle for freedom and reject injustice, inequality, oppression, and exploitation—is our imagination. We can refuse to accept that which is simply handed over to us as truth. Let us begin here in our exploration of the journey of the […]

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January 4, 2021
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Thinking Ecologically, Acting Globally – An Interview with Federico Venturini

This interview has been sponsored and published by the Peace in Kurdistan Campaign Connor Hayes speaks with Dr Federico Venturini, associate researcher at the University of Udine, about a recently published book he has co-edited entitled “Social Ecology and the Right to the City: Towards Ecological and Democratic Cities,” published by Black Rose Books. Topics […]

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November 26, 2020
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