Havin Guneser is an engineer, journalist, and a women's rights activist who writes and speaks extensively on the topic of revolution in Rojava. She is one of the spokespersons of the International Initiative ""Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan--Peace in Kurdistan"" and translator of several of Öcalan's books. Andrej Grubačic is an anarchist dissident and historian who has written prolifically on anarchism and the history of the Balkans. He is founding chair of the Anthropology and Social Change department. He is the author of Don't Mourn, Balkanize! Essays after Yugoslavia and the coauthor of Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History. Sasha Lilley is a writer and radio broadcaster. She's the cofounder and host of the critically acclaimed program of radical ideas, Against the Grain. While program director of KPFA Radio, the flagship station of the Pacifica Network, she headed up such award-winning national broadcasts as ""Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan."" Sasha is the series editor of PM Press's political economy imprint, Spectre, and is the author of Capital and Its Discontents, which Publishers Weekly called a ""cool-headed but urgent volume--timely but sophisticated and wide-ranging enough to remain a longtime reference."" Her coauthored book Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth was published by PM Press.
""Havin Guneser is not just the world's leading authority on the thought of Abdullah Öcalan; she is a profound, sensitive, and challenging revolutionary thinker with a message the world desperately needs to hear."" --David Graeber, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years and Bullshit Jobs: A Theory ""This book is a necessary contribution for the understanding of a revolutionary movement that is very different from the euro-centric legacy of European and Western revolutionary traditions. The science of Women, or Jineology, is one of those contributions which both men and women should understand in order to deepen our critique and our anti-capitalist struggle, as well as the concepts of criticism and self-criticism and democratic confederalism."" --Raúl Zibechi, author of Dispersing Powers: Social Movements as Anti-state Forces and The New Brazil: Regional Imperialism and the New Democracy ""A bright light shining through the darkness of these times, an extraordinary achievement in the most dreadful conditions: we need to understand more about the struggle for freedom being fought by the Kurdish movement. This book by Havin Guneser is a clear, committed, inspiring, and necessary introduction to the movement and its ideas."" --John Holloway, author of Crack Capitalism and In, Against, and Beyond Capitalism: The San Francisco Lectures ""In this unmissable book, Havin Guneser strikes the right chords with her uncompromising and warm-hearted analysis of the Kurdish Freedom movement, and the Kurdish women's movement. A must-read for everyone who wants to understand what the struggle for freedom means in today's violent world."" --Ana Cecilia Dinnerstein author of The Politics of Autonomy in Latin America and Social Sciences for an Other Politics