“This outstanding book by TATORT Kurdistan will be indispensable for all further work on democratic confederalism,
an emerging utopia in the Kurdish regions of Anatolia.” — Janet Biehl
FORTHCOMING: OCTOBER 2013
NEW PUBLICATION FROM NEW COMPASS PRESS:Democratic Autonomy in North Kurdistan
The Council Movement, Gender LIberation, and Ecology—in Practice
ISBN: 978-82-93064-26-8Paperback, ca. 250 pages.Price: 19.95 USD; 12.95 GBP; 14.95 EURBy TATORT Kurdistan, translated by Janet Biehl
As its own contribution to a peaceful solution of the Kurdish question, the Kurdish Freedom Movement in Turkey has developed an alternative social model: Democratic Autonomy.
In the fall of 2011, a group of TATORT activists journeyed into the Kurdish areas to discover how the theory of Democratic Autonomy was being put into practice. Their interviewees discovered a remarkable experiment in face-to-face democracy—all the more notable for being carried out in wartime.
Since 2005, under the most difficult conditions, the movement in North Kurdistan has created structures for building a democratic, ecological and gender-liberated society. Its core consists of a system of councils in villages, cities, and neighborhoods. These structures do not yet offer a way of life that is fully independent of the nation-state and the market economy, but they nonetheless reveal a potent civil counter-power.
The interviews and documentation in this book provide stimulating first glimpses into the practical implementation of a left utopia. The radical democratic awakening of Kurds may also serve as an inspiration for social change in the Middle East—and elsewhere.
TATORT Kurdistan (“Crime scene Kurdistan”) is a German network of peace and human rights activists who focus attention on the Kurdish question. They can be contacted through: [email protected]
New Compass presents ideas on participatory democracy, social ecology, and movement building—for a free, secular, and ecological society.
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