Freedom Shall Prevail: The Struggle of Abdullah Ocalan and the Kurdish People by

Freedom Shall Prevail by Sean Michael Wilson, Keko

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Description Freedom Shall Prevail is the first graphic novel exploring the life and struggle of Abdullah calan, affectionately known as "Apo." Highly regarded around the world, calan led the Kurdish freedom struggle as the head of the PKK from its foundation in 1978 until his abduction by the Turkish state in 1999. He has, so far, spent twenty-five years in captivity. In this graphic novel we learn, in his own words, what calan's childhood was like in the partially Kurdish areas of Eastern Turkey and how his political awareness and commitment grew as a student in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Through the personal struggle of calan we also see the terrible devastation that Kurdish people have suffered and learn about the tumultuous and dramatic history of the relationship between the Kurds and the Turkish state.The book also dives into the theories developed by calan that continue to influence the ongoing struggle today. Expanding on these, the second part of the book gives us a wider consideration of the issues and policies around women's freedom, democratic confederalism and paints an inspiring picture of one of the most impressive attempts to build a genuinely grassroots democratic system anywhere in the world. The struggle going on in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, also known as Rojava, is one that is directly combating gender and racial discrimination and the abuses of the capitalist economic system-in truly interconnected ways.This wonderfully illustrated graphic novel is a collaboration between award-winning Scottish writer Sean Michael Wilson and Kurdish artist Keko, with backing and research help from Peace in Kurdistan Campaign and the International Initiative "Freedom for Abdullah calan-Peace in Kurdistan," groups with long term and impassioned commitment to the cause of calan and the Kurdish people's freedom.

Author Biography

Sean Michael Wilson is an award-winning graphicnovelist from Scotland living in Japan. His more than forty books coverthemes of history, politics, and social issues, including: Parecomic (on participatory economics, with Michael Albert, introduction by Noam Chomsky), Fight the Power! A Visual History of Protest; Portraits of Violence: Ten Theorists on State Violence (with Brad Evans), Such, Such Were the Joys, the childhood autobiography of George Orwell; The Many Not the Few; and The Faceless Ghost, which was nominated for an Eisner Award. His book Secrets of the Ninja won an International Manga Award. More of his work can be found at seanmichaelwilson.weebly.com. Keko is a Kurdish graphic artist living in Spain. Freedom Shall Prevail is his first graphic novel.

Details ISBN-13 9798887440347 Title Freedom Shall Prevail Author Sean Michael Wilson, Keko Format Paperback Year 2024 Pages 160 Publisher PM Press GE_Item_ID:161208580; About Us

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