Manifesto of the Democratic Communal Society: The New Writings of Abdullah Öcalan

'Only those who bear the responsibility for war can assume the responsibility for peace' – Abdullah Öcalan

For decades, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, have fought against the Turkish state. Now, the possibility for peace seems closer than ever. In his first major work for over a decade, the leader and the architect of the peace process, Abdullah Öcalan, delivers a roadmap for the reconstruction of society based on communalism, eco-industry, and radical democracy.

Written from the prison island of Imrali, this is Öcalan's political philosophy, manifesto and strategic intervention in the ongoing peace process in Turkey. He includes rich interventions on the nature of Kurdish existence, their relationship to freedom, the dissolution of the PKK and the future society they will continue to build.

Direct and profoundly hopeful, this manifesto offers a conceptual bridge from decades of conflict toward a future of democratic confederalism.