The Art Of Freedom: A Brief History of the Kurdish Liberation Struggle

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In 2018 one of the most important spokespersons for the struggle of Kurdish Freedom, Havin Guneser, held three groundbreaking seminars on the historical background and guiding ideology of movement. A vital introduction to the Kurdish struggle, the Art of Freedom is the first English-language book to deliver a distillation of the ideas and sensibilities that gave rise to the most important political events of the twenty-first century.

Andrej Grubacic is an anarchist dissident and historian. Havin Guneser is an engineer, journalist, and a women's rights activist. Sasha Lilley is a writer and radio broadcaster.

"Havin Guneser is not just the world's leading authority on the thought of Abdullah OEcalan; she is a profound, sensitive, and challenging revolutionary thinker with a message the world desperately needs to hear." --David Graeber, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years and Bullshit Jobs: A Theory "This book is a necessary contribution for the understanding of a revolutionary movement that is very different from the euro-centric legacy of European and Western revolutionary traditions. The science of Women, or Jineology, is one of those contributions which both men and women should understand in order to deepen our critique and our anti-capitalist struggle, as well as the concepts of criticism and self-criticism and democratic confederalism." --Raul Zibechi, author of Dispersing Powers: Social Movements as Anti-state Forces and The New Brazil: Regional Imperialism and the New Democracy "A bright light shining through the darkness of these times, an extraordinary achievement in the most dreadful conditions: we need to understand more about the struggle for freedom being fought by the Kurdish movement. This book by Havin Guneser is a clear, committed, inspiring, and necessary introduction to the movement and its ideas." --John Holloway, author of Crack Capitalism and In, Against, and Beyond Capitalism: The San Francisco Lectures "In this unmissable book, Havin Guneser strikes the right chords with her uncompromising and warm-hearted analysis of the Kurdish Freedom movement, and the Kurdish women's movement. A must-read for everyone who wants to understand what the struggle for freedom means in today's violent world." --Ana Cecilia Dinnerstein author of The Politics of Autonomy in Latin America and Social Sciences for an Other Politics