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DESCRIPTION:a presentation and Q&A on the\nKurdish Liberation Struggle\nFriday, AUGUST 
 14\n7pm\nQilombo, 2313 San Pablo Ave\n\nFacebook Event: 
 https://www.facebook.com/events/1674196849477452/\n\nThe Kurdish people and 
 their People’s Defense Forces of the YPG and YPJ have become prominent 
 figures in the news media thanks to their effective and unrelenting fight 
 against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, both in Syria and in Iraq. 
 But the Kurdish struggle for liberation stretches back decades. It’s 
 latest iteration, the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), originated as a typical 
 national liberation movement founded on Marxist-Leninist principles. But 
 today the revolutionary Kurdish peoples are fighting for autonomy under the 
 rubric of Democratic Confederalism in Turkey, Syria and Iraq. They are 
 staunchly anti-state, pluralistic, ecologically oriented and, perhaps most 
 importantly fighting for women’s liberation. What is taking place in 
 Kurdistan is perhaps one of the most promising models for national, 
 feminist and socialist liberation for the 21st century.\n\nThis 
 presentation, by people from the region who have been there recently, will 
 focus on the history of the Kurdish movement, it’s revolution in Northern 
 Syria (Rojava), the current powder-keg with the AKP government of Turkey, 
 future prospects and international solidarity. Topics including the 
 evolving relationship between national liberation and imperialist forces, 
 socialist forms of autonomous democracy, women’s liberation and armed 
 guerrilla struggles in concert with electoral battles will be 
 discussed.\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/08/08/18775934.php
SUMMARY:Presentation of Kurdish Liberation Struggle
LOCATION:Qilombo, 2313 San Pablo Ave, Oakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/08/08/18775934.php
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