About the Validity of socialist politics by Abdullah Öcalan (Part 3) This article is available to listen as an audio This text is part of the book “To insist on socialism is to insist on humanity”, written by Abdullah Öcalan in the 90s as a response to the fall of “Real Socialism”, arguing for the necessity to develop a new socialism for the 21st century. America is still the emperor on the international strategic level, within which Turkey and its leadership hold an importan

From the book "Socialism" (Part II) by Abdullah Öcalan This text was written in the 1990s by Abdullah Öcalan. It is one of the texts that initiated the paradigm shift within the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party), and more broadly within the Kurdish liberation movement. The working people, the oppressed and the exploited have always had their own world, their own world view, their own interests and based on these solidarity, organisation and struggles. The history of socialist re

In his Manifesto for a Democratic Civilisation , Rêber APO conceptualised the revolution in Kurdistan as an Internationalist Revolution that aims to create an alternative to capitalist modernity within the Middle East by developing the possibility for communal coexistence between the different nations, peoples and ethnicities of the territory under the framework of Democratic Confederalism. According to Rêber APO: “Democratic Confederalism is based on the historical experienc