Posts From Orsola Casagrande
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Post Views: 13 Omer Guney, the 34 year-old jailed suspect of the assassination of three Kurdish women activists in Paris in 2013 has died in hospital days before his trial. The only suspect in the killing of Kurdistan Workers Party
Read MoreOn the Concept of History – Walter Benjamin – download e-book
Here we publish a new e-book, On the Concept of History by Walter Benjamin, translated by Dennis Redmond
Read MoreTheses on (the Philosophy of) History (poem) – downloadable E-Book
Here we publish Theses on (the Philosophy of) History (poem), a poem by Seamas Carraher
Read MoreGlobal Rights presents its first e-book today
Post Views: 14 Global Rights has decided to venture into the world of e-books.
Read MoreON A DAY THIS WEEK… WALTER BENJAMIN
On a day this week, the 26th (or 27th) of September 1940, the radical German Jewish intellectual, Marxist, and writer Walter Benjamin died by suicide after almost a decade fleeing the Nazis and on threat of being handed over to the Gestapo by Spanish border guards the following day…He was just 48 years old
Read More52 años de lucha por la paz en Colombia
Post Views: 57 Publicamos aqui el comunicado de las FARC-EP que este 27 de mayo cumple el 52 aniversario de existencia como fuerza político militar revolucionaria.
Read MoreFARC-EP CALL ON GOVERNMENT TO WORK FOR BILATERAL TRUCE
Post Views: 16 The FARC-EP has released a statement, “deeply deploring the consequences of the ongoing offensive by government troops against our units in unilateral truce”. Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos had announced immediately after the guerrilla’s response to an
Read MoreOla de protesta en Turquía denuncia los crímenes de género
El intento de violación y posterior asesinato de una joven estudiante de apenas 20 años ha despertado en Turquía una ola de indignación y protesta, encabezada por las propias mujeres, denunciando los crímenes de género, sin embargo en la sociedad turca el patriarcado sigue siendo un valor arraigado mientras la situación socio laboral de las mujeres se deteriora.
Read MoreSinn Féin launch a People’s Pact
Post Views: 7 Sinn Féin launched “A People’s Pact”, in Belfast. The election advertisement which states that the party wants “equality not austerity” was unveiled at Belfast Castle. Speaking at the press conference to present the billboard, which is summarizing
Read MoreWho is the greenest ? Or, who wants peace 0
It would be somehow funny, if indeed the issues were not so serious, to sit and listen to PM Erdo?an delivering one of his “inspired” speeches over current issues. Take for example his latest remarks on what he called “the solution process” (i.e. the process for a solution to the Kurdish issue) and the protests by Middle Eastern Technical University in Ankara.
On the “solution process”, Erdo?an pronounced the following quite threatening words: “The side to break the process will pay the price” and added: “We will never be the side to break it”. Now, a smile would shape the lips of everyone even not so familiar with the current state of affairs on the Kurdish question. Because indeed it is clear that while the Kurds (be it the PKK with its ongoing ceasefire, or the BDP with its ongoing proposals and attempts to break the deadlock) keep moving and trying to revive the process times and times agains, the government has chosen – to use en euphemism – a “waiting attitude”.
The question is, waiting for what ? As Godot will not turned up, clearly the government is trying – by stretching things to the limit – to push the Kurdish side into some kind of action which Erdo?an could finger at as “leaving the table”. The problem is that at present there is no “table”. And consequently no table to abandon.
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