The third conference “Challenging Capitalist Modernity III: Uncovering Democratic Modernity ― Resistance, Rebellion and Building the New” has kicked off in Hamburg.

The three-day conference is taking place at Hamburg University after the past two conferences that brought together not only leading intellectuals, but also gave young activists, students and scholars a chance to present their ideas. This third conference aims once again to build bridges between all these and movements in Kurdistan and worldwide.

The conference will continue to focus on the critique of the capitalist modernity, and this year the obstacles and how these obstacles can be overcome will also be discussed. The main theme of this year's conference is the importance of being organized and to be in solidarity.

The stand where Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan's books, translated in many languages, are presented draws great interest from the participants of the conference who started to gather at the university as of 08:00 this morning before the conference kicked off at 10:00 o'clock.

In today's program welcoming speeches and messages will be given by Rolf Becker, Prof. Frank Adlof, Hamburg People's Council, Havin Guneser, Prof. John Holloway (by video).

The headlines of the 6 topic blocks are:

- Breaking Down the Mindset of Capitalist Civilisation

- Beyond State: Thinking and Building Alternatives

- Capitalism CAN be Overcome: Imagine the “Unimaginable”

- Working groups and workshops (Announcements to be made shortly)

- Ways of Building and Defending the New

- Democratic Modernity: Perspectives Ahead

Today's Sessions include “Breaking Down the Mindset of Capitalist Civilization” moderated by Rahila Gupta, and “Beyond State: Thinking and Building Alternatives” moderated by journalist and author Debbie Bookchin, daughter of Murray Bookchin.

Speakers of the conference include theoretician Prof. David Graeber, sociology professor Frank Adlof, writer and activist Rahila Gupta, writer Silke Helfrich, economist and historian Friederike Habermann, journalist Raul Zibechi and PYD Co-President Saleh Moslem.