Originally published on Sujin NEWS CENTER- Irish women urged to strike unless Irish Government calls abortion referendum by March 8. Strike 4 Repeal movement urged the public to support the movement on social media. “We …
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Strike! for Repeal
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Feminism and the Kurdish Freedom Movement
by: Dilar Dirik This article is an edited version of a presentation at the “Dissecting Capitalist Modernity–Building Democratic Confederalism” Conference at Hamburg University, April 3-5th, 2015. The fact that we are discussing the Kurdish freedom …
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Occupying democracy
First published on Open Democracy The replacement of democratically elected HDP/DBP mayors and local municipality workers by AKP appointees is a grave threat to democracy in Turkish Kurdistan and the larger region. In the aftermath …
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Occupy Gezi: The Limits of Turkey’s Neoliberal Success
by Cihan Tugal from Jadaliyya There are two telling, though widely neglected, details about what initiated and popularized the groundbreaking protests in Taksim Square, Istanbul: the protests started out as a response to the governing …