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Gultan Kisanak, a Kurdish journalist and former MP, was elected
co-mayor of Diyarbakir in 2014. Two years later, the Turkish state
arrested and imprisoned her. Her story is remarkable, but not
unique. While behind bars, she wrote about her own experiences and
collected similar accounts from other Kurdish women, all co-chairs,
co-mayors and MPs in Turkey; all incarcerated on political grounds.
The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics is a one-of-a-kind collection
of prison writings from more than 20 Kurdish women politicians.
Here they reflect on their personal and collective struggles
against patriarchy and anti-Kurdish repression in Turkey; on the
radical feminist principles and practices through which they
transformed the political structures and state offices in which
they operated. They discuss what worked and what didn't, and the
ways in which Turkey's anti-capitalist and socialist movements
closely informed their political stances and practices.
Demonstrating Kurdish women's ceaseless political determination and
refusal to be silenced - even when behind bars - the book
ultimately hopes to inspire women living under even the most unjust
conditions to engage in collective resistance.
Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) was one of the most significant and
influential environmental philosophers of the twentieth century.
The founder of the social ecology movement, Bookchin was presenting
and publishing foundational ideas about issues like air and water
pollution, nuclear radiation, and the dangers of fossil fuels. He
was a genuinely original and prescient thinker who was grappling
with problems that we still face today-and proposing solutions for
them-before most people realized those problems existed. In
addition to his work in ecology, Bookchin was also a noted leftist,
and he worked to create an authentic, indigenous American Left.
Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin is the
first-ever biography of Murray Bookchin, written by his personal
collaborator and copyeditor, Janet Biehl. From 1987-2006, Biehl
edited every word that Bookchin wrote, and worked with him on
numerous articles and books. She tells the story of Bookchin's life
from a perspective that no one else could, providing a
comprehensive biography that examines this pioneer
environmentalist's life on both personal and professional levels.
She uses her access to Bookchin's papers as well as extensive
archival research, and draws upon nearly two decades' worth of a
personal relationship with Bookchin. The book discusses the variety
of philosophies and movements that Bookchin helped lead, including
social ecology, assembly democracy, and even, in certain instances,
anarchism. Ecology or Catastrophe is the definitive biography of
Murray Bookchin, written by the person who knew him best.
Gultan Kisanak, a Kurdish journalist and former MP, was elected
co-mayor of Diyarbakir in 2014. Two years later, the Turkish state
arrested and imprisoned her. Her story is remarkable, but not
unique. While behind bars, she wrote about her own experiences and
collected similar accounts from other Kurdish women, all co-chairs,
co-mayors and MPs in Turkey; all incarcerated on political grounds.
The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics is a one-of-a-kind collection
of prison writings from more than 20 Kurdish women politicians.
Here they reflect on their personal and collective struggles
against patriarchy and anti-Kurdish repression in Turkey; on the
radical feminist principles and practices through which they
transformed the political structures and state offices in which
they operated. They discuss what worked and what didn't, and the
ways in which Turkey's anti-capitalist and socialist movements
closely informed their political stances and practices.
Demonstrating Kurdish women's ceaseless political determination and
refusal to be silenced - even when behind bars - the book
ultimately hopes to inspire women living under even the most unjust
conditions to engage in collective resistance.
The second instalment in a gripping memoir by Sakine Cansiz
(codenamed 'Sara') chronicles the Kurdish revolutionary's harrowing
years in a Turkish prison, following her arrest in 1979 at the age
of 21. Jailed for more than a decade for her activities as a
founder and leader of the Kurdish freedom movement, she faced
brutal conditions and was subjected to interrogation and torture.
Remarkably, the story she tells here is foremost one of resistance,
with courageous episodes of collective struggle behind bars
including hunger strikes and attempts at escape. Along the way she
also presents vivid portraits of her fellow prisoners and
militants, a snapshot of the Turkish left in the 1980s, a scathing
indictment of Turkey's war on Kurdish people - and even an unlikely
love story. The first prison memoir by a Kurdish woman to be
published in English, this is an extraordinary document of an
extraordinary life. Translated by Janet Biehl.
The bitter struggle of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK,
against the Turkish state has delivered inspirational but often
tragic stories. This memoir by Kurdish revolutionary Sakine Cansiz
is one of them. Sakine, whose code name was 'Sara', co-founded the
PKK in 1974 and dedicated her life to its cause. On the 9 January
2013 she was assassinated in Paris in circumstances that remain
officially unresolved. This is the first chapter of her iconic
life, leading up to her arrest in 1979, penned as dramatic events
unfolded against the backdrop of the Turkish revolutionary left.
She writes about the excitement of entering the movement as a young
woman, discovering she would have to challenge traditional gender
roles as she rose amongst its ranks. She was one of the first to
demand the recruitment and education of female revolutionaries, and
demanded total gender equality within the PKK, which is now one of
its central tenets. Today, 'Sara' is an inspiration to women
fighting for liberation across the world. This is her story in her
own words, and is in turns shocking, violent and path-breaking.
Translated by Janet Biehl.
The second instalment in a gripping memoir by Sakine Cansiz
(codenamed 'Sara') chronicles the Kurdish revolutionary's harrowing
years in a Turkish prison, following her arrest in 1979 at the age
of 21. Jailed for more than a decade for her activities as a
founder and leader of the Kurdish freedom movement, she faced
brutal conditions and was subjected to interrogation and torture.
Remarkably, the story she tells here is foremost one of resistance,
with courageous episodes of collective struggle behind bars
including hunger strikes and attempts at escape. Along the way she
also presents vivid portraits of her fellow prisoners and
militants, a snapshot of the Turkish left in the 1980s, a scathing
indictment of Turkey's war on Kurdish people - and even an unlikely
love story. The first prison memoir by a Kurdish woman to be
published in English, this is an extraordinary document of an
extraordinary life. Translated by Janet Biehl.
The bitter struggle of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK,
against the Turkish state has delivered inspirational but often
tragic stories. This memoir by Kurdish revolutionary Sakine Cansiz
is one of them. Sakine, whose code name was 'Sara', co-founded the
PKK in 1974 and dedicated her life to its cause. On the 9 January
2013 she was assassinated in Paris in circumstances that remain
officially unresolved. This is the first chapter of her iconic
life, leading up to her arrest in 1979, penned as dramatic events
unfolded against the backdrop of the Turkish revolutionary left.
She writes about the excitement of entering the movement as a young
woman, discovering she would have to challenge traditional gender
roles as she rose amongst its ranks. She was one of the first to
demand the recruitment and education of female revolutionaries, and
demanded total gender equality within the PKK, which is now one of
its central tenets. Today, 'Sara' is an inspiration to women
fighting for liberation across the world. This is her story in her
own words, and is in turns shocking, violent and path-breaking.
Translated by Janet Biehl.
In the fall of 2011, a group of TATORT activists journeyed into the
Kurdish regions of Turkey to learn how the theory of Democratic
Autonomy was being put into practice. They 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 of conditions, the movement in
North Kurdistan has created structures for a democratic, ecological
and gender-liberated society. At its core is 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 thought
provoking glimpses into the practical implementation of a new left
vision. The radical democratic awakening of the Kurds may serve as
an inspiration for social change in the Middle East and
elsewhere.
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