Öcalan calls for PKK dissolution, but Turkey may refuse to release him ~ Blade Runner ~ In a historic declaration, the imprisoned founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, has called for the organisation’s disarmament and dissolution. In response, PKK leaders declared an immediate ceasefire, framing it as the start of a “new
Items discussed in this program: Valencia anger after flooding • First contact with Ocalan in almost 4 years • Trump victory and the ‘far right international’ • UK at Climate summit • AI job losses
Supporters hail prison visit a step towards a political resolution to the Kurdish question ~ Alisa-Ece Tohumcu ~ Supporters of incarcerated Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan have made a significant political breakthrough as Turkish authorities permitted his first face-to-face meeting with a family member for almost four years. The Kurdish National Congress (KNK) reported on 24 October that Öcalan
Turkey has exponentially increased its military presence in Iraqi Kurdistan recently, causing concern over regional stability in a crisis that shows the importance of political systems in a region often reduced to ethnic groups. This most recent militarisation started in June, with the Kurdish National Congress (KNK) releasing a press statement on July 1st, denouncing
How “anti-terror” laws used to silence meaningful dissent and solidarity with oppressed peoples.
In Kissinger’s ultra-realist perspective, the state and only the state could serve as a legitimate or functional vehicle for foreign policy, with the lives, experiences and suffering of people living in and under those states so much chaff in the wind.
This invasion by the Metropolitan Police comes only two days after UK defence minister Grant Shapps and Turkish counterpart Yaşar Güler held a meeting agreeing to “enhance” defence and security cooperation.
Stateless democracy is not only possible but is already being built.
“Erdoğan will never allow a loss, they will always steal the votes they need.”
The repression of the Turkish state is ever-present.
Ash Sarkar’s discussion of identity politics is coming out during a liberal post-Biden “reassessment”, which some would say is 10 years too late ~ Anonymous ~ Ash Sarkar, of Novara Media and “literally a communist” fame, has written her first book, Minority Rule, whose central thesis employs a double meaning of the book’s title, describing
Action closes two-week peace camp near base for US nuclear bombers ~ Helen Baczkowska ~ Saturday April 26th 2025 saw a blockade of the American military base at Lakenheath in Suffolk—the final action of a two-week long peace camp.
The offer of space tourism to rich women is a pastiche of feminism which acts only to showcase the shallowness of corporate liberalism ~ Sourdough ~ Earlier this month, for the first time since Valentina Tereshkova’s 1963 spaceflight, an all-female crew briefly took to space aboard Jeff Bezos’ New Shepard for a total of 11
Calendars are rapidly filling up, but there should always be time to hang out with comrades, peruse the latest political literature and scheme over a coffee …
Andy, Rhiannon, Sam and Simon discuss the UK Supreme Court’s ruling, what it means legally and what it actually means for trans people, as well as the solidarity demonstrations that took place over the weekend.
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