War mentality is patriarchal mentality We as Internationalist Young Women in Rojava woke up to the sounds of airstrikes and bombs this morning. How does it feel as a woman to be in a war zone? What is our specific role? Even if there are contradictions between the nature of the woman and the reality […]
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Brochure: On my prison life on İmralı island Read More »
Text by “Abdullah Öcalan Academy for Social Sciences“ If we look back at history, we see that in popular movements, leaders always enjoy an undeniable status. We will see that the social problems, society or social demands, hopes and aspirations that have arisen somewhere and at some time in history will find their most concentrated
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Daesh. It’s a name not unfamiliar to our ears from those of us from the international community. ISIS, the Islamic State or sometimes simply referred to as “terrorists”, we think immediately of men dressed in black, looting, killing and terrorizing people in their path. But do we really know any more than that? Do we
Shengal, anniversary of the genocide towards political autonomy Read More »
“Rêhevaltî“ – Comradeship [Rê = Path, Heval = Comrade]. Also available in Portuguese and German It is extremely important to understand the meaning of “Heval” or “Rêheval” in the context of the Democratic Nation from the point of view of the PKK. – ABDULLAH OCALAN The PKK’s place in the life of the Democratic Nation
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Available in Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Russian. Liberalism, as the ideological monopoly of modernity, tries by a veritable media bombardment to create a state of chaos in the consciousness of the people. Their basic weapons are fundamentalism, nationalism, sexism, and modern science as a “new positivist religion”. While liberalism (through fundamentalism) controls the conscience of
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Just as great misfortune comes from ignorance, great love comes from deep knowledge and awareness and consciousness. For this, great thought is necessary. Great thoughts keep people alive. People live, for the sake of great thoughts they toil. If you think big you will create great things. Only great thinkers can change the world. –
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After we have brought out the personality of Zîlan, the old masculinity has died. – Rêber Apo On the 30th July 1996 Şehîd Zîlan (Zeynep Kinaci) made her selfsacrifizing action in Dersim. She joined the Guerilla in 1995 and as an result of an attempt to assasinate on Rêber Apo on 6th May 1996 in
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