After 25 years in prison, PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan decides to bring
down the curtain and dissolve his party. The party was founded in 1984on the basis of Marxist-Leninist doctrine, but after its leader read
Murray Bookchin in prison, it declared itself a "democratic
confederalist" party, offering a very peculiar reinterpretation of
Bookchin's ideas as a mixture of Leninism and social democracy with
feminist and ecological discourse, all against the backdrop of the cult
of personality of the leader.
The PKK actually ran in Turkey's parliamentary elections a few years ago
and won several seats, but because it did not lay down its arms,
Erdogan's government classified it as a "terrorist organization" and it
became illegal again.
At the same time, several political shifts have emerged in recent years
that could affect the legal status of Ocalan (sentenced to life
imprisonment). In October 2024, Devlet Bahçeli, leader of the
Nationalist Movement Party and a key ally of President Erdogan,
suggested that Öcalan's sentence could be reviewed if the PKK laid down
its arms. Later in February 2025, Ocalan called on the PKK to dissolve
itself and give up the armed struggle, prompting the group to declare a
ceasefire and announce its future dissolution, which finally happened a
few days ago.
According to its recent 12th Congress, the PKK has "destroyed the policy
of denial and destruction imposed" on Turkey's Kurdish population and
"brought the Kurdish question to a point where it can be resolved
through democratic politics, thus fulfilling its historical mission."
Without a doubt, the only thing that can resolve this is for the former
PKK leaders to enter the Turkish parliament, as they have always
planned, as part of new political parties free from the historical
burden of the PKK. Despite his more or less straightforward statements,
Ocalan eventually conceded defeat and is positioning himself as a future
social democratic leader after his apparently negotiated release. We
will soon see him at the head of a new party. Who knows whether he will
again stick to his particular interpretation of Bookchin's ideas, hoping
they will bear fruit, or perhaps take a more traditional position, this
time closer to European social democracy.
Despite the disastrous and bitter historical experience of anarchism
mixing with movements, trade unions and political parties that put
"national liberation" above social revolution, today, in the
twenty-first century, many anarchists join such movements, which
inevitably end up betrayed in some parliament, begging for a place in
power. A position, this time closer to European social democracy.
Let's not let ourselves be distracted any further. A true anarchist
movement is one that openly advocates social revolution above all else,
including the "liberation" of any "people" or "nation," simply because
any "national liberation" (even if cloaked in feminist or
environmentalist garb) is nothing more than a deception whose goal is to
replace one government with another, one oppressor and exploiter with
another, deceiving us with promises of "becoming one of us." Only a
social revolution that destroys the government and establishes anarchist
communism from the bottom up, organized in free communes, can achieve
the liberation of the peoples. And no political party will ever achieve
that, even if it calls itself "democratic confederalist."
Full KPAC/Cras article - https://aitrus.info/node/6310
Original Spanish article -
https://bibliotecadigitalbdela.blogspot.com/2025/05/se-cae-la-farsa-del-confederalismo.html
https://anarcomuk.uk/2025/05/13/the-kurdistan-workers-party-and-democratic-confederalism-the-end-of-a-farce/
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