Prison Writings: The Roots of Civilisation

History

Abdullah Öcalan

Ancient Civilizations

Pluto Press

In his second book, Abdullah Öcalan applies the political and historical philosophy that was developed in the first volume of his Prison Writings to the Kurdish question. The book addresses the concrete political issues at the centre of the Kurdish question. Öcalan calls for a ‘Renaissance of the Middle East’ where the integration of democratic Western values and universal human rights with the deeply rooted cultural values of the Middle Eastern societies, especially the Kurdish, will form a new synthesis of civilisations. Abdullah Öcalan was the leader of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK). He was eventually kidnapped while in Kenya in 1999, and has been in prison in Turkey ever since. Öcalan was the most wanted man in Turkey for almost two decades until his kidnapping. From 1984, under his leadership, the PKK fought for an independent Kurdish state in the southeast of Turkey. In a sustained popular uprising, tens of thousands of PKK guerrillas took on the second largest army in NATO. The book begins with Preliminary Notes by Cemil Bayik, military commander of the PKK.

Prison Writings Volume II: The PKK and the Kurdish Question in the 21st Century

Middle East

Transmedia Publishing

Preface, The Editors; Hope in Rojava, David Levi Strauss; Syria's Kurdish Revolution: The Anarchist Element and the Challenge of Solidarity, Bill Weinberg; Why Is the World Ignoring the Revolutionary Kurds in Syria?, David Graeber; No. This Is a Genuine Revolution, David Graeber &amp; Pinar Ögünç; Abdullah Öcalan, Peter Lamborn Wilson; Öcalan's Angels, Newsha Tavakolian; No Miracles at Work, Havin Güneser; A Revolution of Life, Saleh Muslim &amp; Jonas Staal; Woman Fighters of the YPJ, Murat Bay; The World's First Army of Women, Evren Kocabiçak; Two Excerpts from 'Liberating Life: Women's Revolution', Abdullah Öcalan; New Wars and Autonomous Self-Defense in Kurdistan, Nazan Üstündag; Dispatches From Rojava, El Errante / Paul Z. Simons; Rojava: To Dare Imagining, Dilar Dirik; The Mastery of Non-Mastery, Michael Taussig; Acknowledgments &amp; Bios; Sources &amp; Resources; The Charter of the Rojava Cantons

To Dare Imagining: Rojava Revolution

Peter Lamborn Wilson

David Levi Strauss

DAVID GRAEBER

Michael Taussig

Murat Bay

Dilar Dirik

Havin Güneser

Evren Kocabiçak

Saleh Muslim

Pinar Ögünç

Newsha Tavakolian

Nazan Üstündag

Bill Weinberg

Military

Autonomedia

The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan

The Road Map to Negotiations is an extraordinary document. It was the centerpiece of the secret dialogue process between Abdullah Öcalan and the Turkish state that started in 2009 and was broken off in mid-2011. Here Öcalan defines the necessary steps that have to be met for a serious peace process to start. At the same time he outlines a real solution of the Kurdish issue. Going beyond traditional solutions like statehood or territorial autonomy, he envisions a democratic nation and a common homeland for all countries where Kurds live, indeed for the whole Middle East. Refusing traditional arguments, he gives all parties concerned something to think about.

Prison Writings III: The Road Map to Negotiations

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

International Initiative

Liberating Life: Woman's Revolution

International Initiative Edition

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