Pm press aug 2024 (2 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Freedom Shall Prevail is the first graphic novel exploringthe life and struggle of Abdullah Öcalan, affectionately known as "Apo."Highly regarded around the world, Öcalan led theKurdish freedom struggle as the head of the PKK from its foundation in1978 until his abduction by the Turkish state in 1999. He has, so farspent twenty-five years in captivity. In this graphic novel we learn, inhis own words, what Öcalan's childhood was like in the partiallyKurdish areas of Eastern Turkey and how his political awareness andcommitment grew as a student in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Throughthe personal struggle of Öcalan we also see the terrible devastationthat Kurdish people have suffered and learn about the tumultuous anddramatic history of the relationship between the Kurds and the Turkishstate.The book also dives into the theories developed by Öcalanthat continue to influence the ongoing struggle today. Expanding onthese, the second part of the book gives us a wider consideration of theissues and policies around women's freedom, democratic confederalismand paints an inspiring picture of one of the most impressive attemptsto build a genuinely grassroots democratic system anywhere in the world.The struggle going on in the Autonomous Administration of North andEast Syria, also known as Rojava, is one that is directly combatinggender and racial discrimination and the abuses of the capitalisteconomic systemin truly interconnected ways.This wonderfullyillustrated graphic novel is a collaboration between award-winningScottish writer Sean Michael Wilson and Kurdish artist Keko, withbacking and research help from Peace in Kurdistan Campaign and theInternational Initiative "Freedom for Abdullah ÖcalanPeace inKurdistan," groups with long term and impassioned commitment to thecause of Öcalan and the Kurdish people's freedom. Keko, Keko (illustrator).…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What's the relationship between combating the far right andworking for systemic change What does it mean when fascists intensifyracial oppression and patriarchy but also call for the downfall ofeconomic elites or even take up arms against the state Threeway fight politics confront these urgent questions squarely, arguingthat the far right grows out of an oppressive capitalist order but isalso in conflict with it in real ways, and that radicals need to combatboth. The three way fight approach says we need sharper analysis offar-right movements so we can fight them more effectively, and we alsoneed to track ongoing developments within the ruling class, includingliberal or centrist efforts to co-opt antifascism as a tool of staterepression and system legitimation.This book offers anintroduction to three way fight politics, with more than thirty essaysposition statements, and interviews from the Three Way Fight website andelsewhere, spanning from the antifascist struggles of the 1980s and1990s to the political upheavals of the twenty-first century. Overfifteen authors explore a range of topics, such as fascist politics'relationship with patriarchy and settler colonialism, Tom Metzger's"Third Position" (anticapitalist) fascism, conflict within the businesscommunity over the 2016 presidential election, and the Trumpadministration's shifting relationship with the organized far right.Many of the writings address issues of political strategy, such astensions between radicals and liberals within the reproductive rightsmovement and the George Floyd rebellion, video gaming as an arena ofpolitical struggle, and the importance (and challenges) of approachingantifascist organizing in ways that are militant, community based, andnonsectarian.…