The Art of Freedom: A Brief History of the Kurdish Liberation Struggle (KAIROS)

The Art of Freedom: A Brief History of the Kurdish Liberation Struggle (KAIROS)

Andrej Grubacic, Havin Guneser, Sasha Lilley
$15.95
Publication Date: July 6th, 2021
Publisher:
PM Press
ISBN:
9781629637815
Pages:
192
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Description

The Revolution in Rojava captured the imagination of the Left, sparking a worldwide interest in the Kurdish Freedom Movement. The Art of Freedom demonstrates that this explosive movement is firmly rooted in several decades of organized struggle. In 2018, one of the most important spokespersons for the struggle of Kurdish Freedom, Havin Guneser, held three groundbreaking seminars on the historical background and guiding ideology of the movement. Havin Guneser has provided an expansive definition of freedom and democracy and a road map to help usher in a new era of struggle against capitalism, imperialism, and the State.

About the Author

Andrej Grubacic is an anarchist dissident and historian. Havin Guneser is an engineer, journalist, and a women's rights activist. Sasha Lilley is a writer and radio broadcaster.

Praise for The Art of Freedom: A Brief History of the Kurdish Liberation Struggle (KAIROS)

"Havin Guneser is not just the world’s leading authority on the thought of Abdullah Öcalan; she is a profound, sensitive, and challenging revolutionary thinker with a message the world desperately needs to hear." —David Graeber author of Debt: The First 500 Years and Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"This book is a necessary contribution for the understanding of a revolutionary movement that is very different from the euro-centric legacy of European and Western revolutionary traditions. The science of Women, or Jineology, is one of those contributions which both men and women should understand in order to deepen our critique and our anti-capitalist struggle, as well as the concepts of criticism and self-criticism and democratic confederalism." —Raúl Zibechi, author of Dispersing Powers: Social Movements as Anti-state Forces and The New Brazil: Regional Imperialism and the New Democracy

"A bright light shining through the darkness of these times, an extraordinary achievement in the most dreadful conditions: we need to understand more about the struggle for freedom being fought by the Kurdish movement. This book by Havin Guneser is a clear, committed, inspiring, and necessary introduction to the movement and its ideas." —John Holloway, author of Crack Capitalism and In, Against, and Beyond Capitalism: The San Francisco Lectures

"In this unmissable book, Havin Guneser strikes the right chords with her uncompromising and warm-hearted analysis of the Kurdish Freedom movement, and the Kurdish women’s movement. A must-read for everyone who wants to understand what the struggle for freedom means in today’s violent world." —Ana Cecilia Dinnerstein author of The Politics of Autonomy in Latin America and Social Sciences for an Other Politics

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