The fourth session of our study group on Rojava/ Kurdish movement and the Zapatistas will take place on Saturday, January 22nd @ 2pm EDT (US). The topic of this session is the ideological transformations from vanguardism to communal revolution which both these movements underwent. Feel free to join even if you don’t get a chance to do the readings.

Register to get the Zoom link here.

Main Readings:

Chiapas:

“Why We Still Love the Zapatistas,” by Leonidas Oikonomakis

“Finding New Words for Old Struggles,” in The Chiapas Rebellion by Neil Harvey (pp. 164-168)

Kurdistan:

Gender equality and radical democracy: Contradictions and conflicts in relation to the ‘new paradigm’ within the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK),” by Joost Jongerden

Optional readings:

“From Chiapas to Rojava: seas devide us, autonomy binds us,” by Petar Stanchev

Guatemala:

“Guatemala: The Role of the Maya in the Worldview of Marxist Insurgency.” In Maya and Catholic Cultures in Crisis, chapter 17.

Chiapas:

Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle, by EZLN, 2005