by Asli Filiz This work is an intimate and deeply charged artistic testimony a visual space where I confront the historical traumas, cultural endurance, and resilient spirit of Êzîdî women. I did n…

This commune proposes that we can and must make revolutionary change, now, by changing patterns of everyday life and popular participation rather than waiting to take state power and then transform…

by David Graeber I want to write a few words on the status of Abdullah Öcalan as a thinker. He has written voluminous works; but outside the Kurdish movement, the world appears to have had a very d…

by Abdullah Öcalan The democratic confederalist system is democratic modernity’s counterpart of the nation-state, the main state form of official modernity. We can define this as a form of non-stat…

by Nazan Üstündağ This article aims at thinking together with the Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement about how an anti-colonial form of freedom can be imagined by women. The slogan Jin Jiyan Azadi (W…

by Reimar Heider The establishment of a new academy like the Academy of Social Science raises all sorts of questions: What is an academy? Why another academy? Do we need academies? And if so, what …

The number of wars is increasing at an unprecedented rate, with devastating consequences such as bombings, destruction, famine, displacement, genocide, femicide, ecocide, and massive cuts to social…

by Laura Fantone Let us say that we are making several revolutions at the same time: the social revolution, the revolution of a democratic nation, the women’s freedom revolution and the revolution …

By Nik Matheou Hauntings of Capitalist Modernity I start from the principle of hope.1 Hope is the very stuff of our ability to create meaningful bonds, relationships, lives and worlds. Why commit t…

By Benedetta Argentieri On Monday morning, April 26, 1937, in the small Basque town of Guernica, women and children — the only inhabitants left since all the men were fighting in the Spanish Civil …

By Havin Guneser James Ussher was an Anglican bishop and the Archbishop of Armagh in the seventeenth century. Ussher is famous for calculating the creation of the world based on genealogies in scri…

Building on the work of previous movements, revolutionaries and intellectuals, Abdullah Öcalan theorizes history as the result of the constant flow of two rivers: state civilization, a five-thousan…

Targol Mesbah’s speech at the Academy Inauguration in June 2025 is now online, watch it here:

Sunnudagsins 29. júní mun ég – og margir aðrir – minnast sem stofndags Academy of Social Science en það er stofnun sem tengist sagnfræðilegum og félagsfræð