Day of Revival: 15 August 1984 and the PKK’s Struggle for Human Freedom (Transcript of Discussion)

A new pamphlet has been published, composed of the transcripts of speeches delivered during a panel discussion entitled “Your Freedom and Mine: Celebrating the History and Struggle of the Kurdish Freedom Movement,” held on 15 August 2020, which is the 36th anniversary of the PKK’s initiation of the armed struggle against the Turkish state. The speakers on the panel were Meral Çiçek, Salih Muslim, Thomas Jeffrey Miley, and Reimar Heider, and it was moderated by Dimitrios Roussopoulous. The text was prepared and features an introduction by Connor Hayes. The pamphlet was produced by Black Rose Books, in cooperation with the Peace in Kurdistan Campaign, for the International Initiative “Freedom for Abdullah Ocalan–Peace in Kurdistan.”

Day Of Revival - 15 August 1984 and the PKK's Struggle for Human Freedom

 

This pamphlet can be downloaded here: Day Of Revival: 15 August 1984 and the PKK’s Struggle for Human Freedom

About the Text

This text is composed of the transcripts of speeches delivered during a panel discussion entitled “Your Freedom and Mine: Celebrating the History and Struggle of the Kurdish Freedom Movement,” held on 15 August 2020, which is the 36th anniversary of the PKK’s initiation of the armed struggle against the Turkish state. The title of the event was inspired by the 2018 book Your Freedom and Mine: Abdullah Öcalan and the Kurdish Question in Erdoğan’s Turkey, edited by Thomas Jeffrey Miley and Federico Venturini, published by Black Rose Books.

The event was co-hosted by Black Rose Books, PM Press, and the Peace in Kurdistan Campaign. It was moderated by Dimitrios Roussopoulous, a political activist, ecologist, writer, editor, publisher, community organizer, and public speaker, co-founder of the Transnational Institute for Social Ecology (TRISE), and author of numerous books, including Political Ecology: System Change Not Climate Change, and The New Left: Legacy and Continuity.

This transcript is edited by Connor Hayes who is an activist and researcher, whose interests include philosophy and comparative political theory. He was a member of the 2019 International Peace Delegation to İmralı.

Cover and layout by Clara Swan

The original panel discussion of which this pamphlet is a transcription can be viewed here: