NEWS CENTER – On October 19, in the city of Xalapa, Veracruz in southern Mexico, a discussion entitled “Struggles and Emancipations in the Global South: from Kurdistan to Abya Yala” was held by professors and students of the Institute for Historical-Social Research of the Universidad Veracruzana Students from the faculties of sociology, history and anthropology as well as various postgraduate courses in social sciences took part in the dialogue with a member of the Academy of Democratic Modernity .
The event began with a contribution from women from the student movement against patriarchal violence recently organized at the university, who denounced harassment by male professors and students and the impunity of the institutions themselves. This theme was linked to the Kurdish women’s struggle for liberation and the fact that their example of organization was fundamental to the fight against violence and the historical oppression of women around the world.
The dialogue, attended by around 70 people, consisted of an initiative to disseminate the processes of democratic autonomy in Kurdistan, the Rojava experience and how new theoretical and political references to the analysis of capitalism and patriarchy are being made in the Middle East. At the end of the event, those present chanted the slogan “Jin Jiyan Azadî” (Woman, Life, Freedom).
