"Victoria" Anarchist Reading Circle
Reading for Revolution
After discussing Öcalan’s text on “Democratic Confederalism,” the group decided to continue studying his work. We chose to read “Liberating Life: Woman’s Revolution.” The text is available as a .pdf from this link: http://www.freeocalan.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/liberating-Lifefinal.pdf
As always, we meet at 7pm at Camas Books on 2620 Quadra st on unceded Lekwungen territory.
Last week’s discussion introduced us to Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the Kurdish Worker’s party, who, after he was jailed indefinitely by the Turkish State, turned to a number of new sources to revisit his previous Marxist-Leninist nationalist ideology. He did a ‘180’ and turned to the writings of the anarchist social ecologist Murray Bookchin, and from there developed his own vision of anarchism, which he called “Democratic Confederalism.”
In keeping with this theme, members of the Anarchist Reading Circle have decided to read Öcalan’s pamphlet called just that, “Democratic Confederalism.”
The text can be downloaded from this website. We will be referring to the updated 4th edition: Democratic Confederalism Booklet
As always, we meet at Camas Books and Infoshop, 2620 Quadra St, unceded Lekwungen Territory. It is scheduled for Tuesday, March 12, 2019; doors @6:50; discussion @7pm. See you there!