My hope is that Silent Scream stands as both a witness and a voice insisting that the experiences of Êzîdî women be seen, remembered, and carried forward.
In "Silent Scream" Aslı Filiz describes the process and meaning behind the realization of the beautiful artwork for the cover of Issue number 1 of Democratic Modernity. The article is now available online!
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Instances where communities escaped state and capitalist control and created forms of autonomous participatory governance include the Zapatistas in Mexico and Rojava in Syria. Yet urban communities can also appropriate institutions within the system, to resist the state system.
This commune proposes that we can and must make revolutionary change, now, by changing patterns of everyday life and popular participation rather than waiting to take state power and then transform society.
JOIN THE NEW RESEARCH COMMUNE - DEMOCRATIC CONFEDERALISM AND PREFIGURATION
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Since Öcalan’s words really are, before anything else they might be, a form of political action, their ultimate meaning can only be known by what they do."
Academics — at least critical academics — are increasingly engaged in writing works that sound like they are meant to change the world, in an institutional context designed to ensure there is almost no possibility they might actually do so.
David Graeber's "Öcalan as Thinker: On the Unity of Theory and Practice as Form of Writing", published on Issue 01 of Democratic Modernity, is now available online!
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Democratic confederalism has the potential to overcome the disadvantages stemming from the nation-state system. At the same time, it is the most appropriate means for politicizing society. Each community can structure and express itself autonomously as a political unit.
"Democratic Confederalism: a Non-State Political Governance" by Abdullah Öcalan, from Issue 01 of Democratic Modernity, is now available online!
academyofsocialscience.org/2026/06/29/dem…
The bodies and speech of women connect Kurds to life, to the world and word, in unpredictable ways inciting new takhayyuls against capture, marginalized by the symbolic order of the Turkish state.
The figures of the mother, the woman guerilla and the woman politician are reduced to flesh in the colonial world by rendering them unworthy to live, criminal, indocile and undisciplined through different technologies mainly, killings, police violence and imprisonment.
✍️New Article Published!
"Imagining Freedom in the Kurdish Women's Freedom Movement" by Nazan Üstündağ @Nazanstnda, from Issue 01 of Democratic Modernity, is now available online!
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By bringing together potentially everybody who is interested in changing the world for the better, academies rooted in the principles and traditions of the Kurdistan Freedom Movement can become the crystallization and departure points for any revolutionary change.
✍️ New Article Published!
"A Different Kind of Academy" by Reimar Heider, from Issue 01 of Democratic Modernity, is now available online!
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Exploring these ideas on peace in greater depth and examining them thoroughly is both inspiring and multifaceted. We will establish a research commune to create a space and a community dedicated to this task.
Going beyond statism Abdullah Öcalan has put forward a unique concept of peace. Peace is inextricably intertwined with democratization, gender liberation, and ecological transformation—all rooted in the political idea that all solutions must come from society, from the communes.
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A new Research Commune is estabilished to explore Öcalan's ideas in peace!
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