“History, in a sense, is the history of the dominant male who gained power with the rise of classed society” ~Abdullah Öcalan PKK, the Workers Party of Kurdistán: many people know their name, few really know what their struggle is about. Www.farc-epeace.org had the opportunity to speak with two representatives of the PKK’s women’s organization…
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Why Jineology? Re-Constructing the Sciences Towards a Communal and Free Life
By Gönül Kaya Gönül Kaya is a journalist and representative of the Kurdish women’s movement. This article is the transcript of her speech at the Jineology Conference in March 2014 in Cologne, Germany. The Free Women’s Movement of Kurdistan evaluates jineology as an important step in its ongoing intellectual, ideological-political self-defense and mobilization struggle of…
Stateless Democracy: How the Kurdish Women’s Movement Liberated Democracy from the State
By Dilar Dirik “Azadî”, freedom. A notion that has captured the collective imagination of the Kurdish people for a long time. “Free Kurdistan”, the seemingly unattainable ideal, has many shapes, depending on where one situates oneself in the broad spectrum of Kurdish politics. The increasing independence of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in South Kurdistan…
ISIS Seen Through the Eyes of PKK Guerrilla Forces
By Tanja Nijmeijer PKK, the Workers Party of Kurdistán: many people know their name, few really know what their struggle is about. http://www.farc-epeace.org had the opportunity to speak with two representatives of the PKK’s women’s organization – PAJK, Zelal Dersim and Asia Dicle, about the situation in the Middle-East, IS, the role of the United…
The Double Standards of the Western World According to PKK
PKK, the Workers Party of Kurdistán: many people know their name, few really know what their struggle is about. http://www.farc-epeace.org had the opportunity to speak with two representatives of the PKK’s Party of Women’s Liberation (PAJK), Zelal Dersim and Asia Dicle, about the situation in the Middle-East, Islamic State, the role of the United States,…
