The Emergency Committee for Rojava will explore Democratic Confederalism as a system of governance via Ocalan’s Sociology of Freedom and Bookchin’s The Communalist Project and The Meaning of Confederalism, in its reading group in April.

The reading group will meet on Saturday, 1 April at 2pm EST for  its fifth session of the series focused on Democratic Confederalism.

Anyone interested can register here

This series covers the theories and history of democratic confederalism as practiced by the Kurdish Freedom Movement. The sessions started with an introduction of the historical context and overview, and then moved to Öcalan’s theories of history and democratic civilization.

After reading about state and class-based societies and capitalist modernity, the group is now diving into democratic confederalism, followed by social ecology, as alternatives. The series will end with a discussion of women’s liberation and eco-feminism and how these concepts and practices relate to democratic confederalism. 
The readings can be found through the folder linked here

The reading list is as follows:

The Dimension of Moral and Political Society (Democratic Society), in Ocalan’s Sociology of freedom, pp. 243-249

The Dimension of Democratic Confederalist Society, in Ocalan’s Sociology of freedom, pp. 256-265

Murray Bookchin, The Communalist Project, pp. 1-19, https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-the-communalist-project.pdf 

Murray Bookchin, The Meaning of Confederalism https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-the-meaning-of-confederalism