Beyond State, Power, and Violence

Beyond State, Power, and Violence

Abdullah Öcalan, Andrej Grubacic (Foreword by), International Initiative "Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan—Peace in Kurdistan" (Editor)
$29.95
Publication Date: July 6th, 2021
Publisher:
PM Press
ISBN:
9781629637150
Pages:
800
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Description

After the dissolution of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) in 2002, internal discussions ran high, and fear and uncertainty about the future of the Kurdish freedom movement threatened to unravel the gains of decades of organizing and armed struggle. From his prison cell, Abdullah Öcalan intervened by penning his most influential work to date: Beyond State, Power, and Violence. With a stunning vision of a freedom movement centered on women’s liberation, democracy, and ecology, Öcalan helped reinvigorate the Kurdish freedom movement by providing a revolutionary path forward with what is undoubtedly the furthest-reaching definition of democracy the world has ever seen. Here, for the first time, is the highly anticipated English translation of this monumental work.
 

About the Author

Abdullah Öcalan actively led the Kurdish liberation struggle as the head of the PKK from its foundation in 1978 until his abduction in February 1999. He is regarded as a leading strategist and the most important political representative of the Kurdish freedom movement. Andrej Grubačić is the founding chair of the Anthropology and Social Change Department at the California Institute of Integral Studies–San Francisco and coauthor of Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History. International Initiative is a multinational peace initiative for the release of Abdullah Öcalan and a peaceful solution to the Kurdish question.