Manifesto of the Democratic Communal Society
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'Only those who bear the responsibility for war can assume the responsibility for peace' – Abdullah Öcalan
For decades, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, have fought against the Turkish state. Now, the possibility for peace seems closer than ever. In his first major work for over a decade, the leader and the architect of the peace process, Abdullah Öcalan, delivers a roadmap for the reconstruction of society based on communalism, eco-industry, and radical democracy.
Written from the prison island of Imrali, this is Öcalan's political philosophy, manifesto and strategic intervention in the ongoing peace process in Turkey. He includes rich interventions on the nature of Kurdish existence, their relationship to freedom, the dissolution of the PKK and the future society they will continue to build.
Direct and profoundly hopeful, this manifesto offers a conceptual bridge from decades of conflict toward a future of democratic confederalism.
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About Abdullah Öcalan
Abdullah Öcalan actively led the Kurdish liberation struggle as the head of the PKK from its foundation in 1978 until his abduction on 15th February 1999. He is a leading strategist and the most important political representative of the Kurdish freedom movement. While under isolation conditions at Imrali Island Prison, he authored several books that revolutionised Kurdish politics, including The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan, Beyond State, Power, and Violence, and The Sociology of Freedom.
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