The third session of our study group on Rojava/ Kurdish movement and the Zapatistas will take place on Saturday November 20th @ 2pm EDT. This month we are exploring the emergence of the EZLN and PKK-led guerrilla struggle in Chiapas and North Kurdistan (Turkey) respectively, as well as the PKK’s influence on the Kurdish movement in Rojava. This will be followed by a session on the ideological transformations from vanguardism to communal revolution which both these movements underwent.

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Main Readings:

Chiapas

Womack Jr., J. (1999). Revolutionaries from Monterrey to Chiapas: The FLN, 1980. In Rebellion in Chiapas, an historical reader (pp. 190–197). The New Press.

Kurdistan

Knapp, Michael, Flach, Anja, and Ayboga, Ercan. (2016). “3.1. The PKK & its paradigm shift”, “4.1 Organizing begins,” “The Arab Spring,” and “Illegal Councils,” in: Revolution in Rojava. Democratic Autonomy and Women’s Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan. London: Pluto Press. 

Recommended:

Kurdistan

Tax, Meredith. “Turkey: Implacable Kemalism, 1924-1980,” (65-74),  in: A Road Unforeseen. Women Fight the Islamic State. New York: Bellevue Literary Press. 

El Salvador

Binford, L. (2016). 2. The Eye of the Oligarchy. In The El Mozote Massacre: Human Rights And Global Implications(pp. 34–57). University of Arizona Press.

Chiapas

Subcomandante Marcos: Nos hemos estado preparando en la montaña desde hace diez años (only in Spanish, but can be translated with Google Translate)