Antonio Negri's message at Hamburg Conference
Antonio Negri's message at Hamburg Conference
Here Professor Antonio Negri's message to the conference in Hamburg.
Dear all,
I am very sorry not to be there with you. I am there though with my heart.
Reading the news - very few I must say in the European press - about what is happening both in Kurdistan and Turkey in the past few months, I have realised once more that yours is a struggle on different levels.
On one hand there is the claim to the right to exist as a people, while on the other there is the awareness that even if the right to exist was to be recognised, without a radical change in a progressive way in Turkey, this very right would risk to remain only a formal one.
Your struggle is therefore also a struggle for a different society, driven by the recognition of collective rights as well as a different way of understanding economic development and the use of resources, to build a model of governance that goes beyond that of the nation-state. A governance that would be able to challenge a capitalism in crisis but still very aggressive.
This conference is yet another concrete sign of your desire to discuss of the crisis of capitalism, the perspectives for the left but above all of the model of society we want to build.
The Kurdish people has a millenary history of culture and resistance.
On 12 June 2011, the election results gave rise to high expectations and hopes. These hopes have been crushed in blood. Thousands of Kurdish politicians, intellectuals, journalists, lawyers, civil society activists, human rights defenders have been arrested.
All sections of the Kurdish society and the Turkish left have been and still are under attack.
This conference is another answer to those who would like to silence you.
We are with you with our heart and above all with supportive political intelligence.
Dear all,
I am very sorry not to be there with you. I am there though with my heart.
Reading the news - very few I must say in the European press - about what is happening both in Kurdistan and Turkey in the past few months, I have realised once more that yours is a struggle on different levels.
On one hand there is the claim to the right to exist as a people, while on the other there is the awareness that even if the right to exist was to be recognised, without a radical change in a progressive way in Turkey, this very right would risk to remain only a formal one.
Your struggle is therefore also a struggle for a different society, driven by the recognition of collective rights as well as a different way of understanding economic development and the use of resources, to build a model of governance that goes beyond that of the nation-state. A governance that would be able to challenge a capitalism in crisis but still very aggressive.
This conference is yet another concrete sign of your desire to discuss of the crisis of capitalism, the perspectives for the left but above all of the model of society we want to build.
The Kurdish people has a millenary history of culture and resistance.
On 12 June 2011, the election results gave rise to high expectations and hopes. These hopes have been crushed in blood. Thousands of Kurdish politicians, intellectuals, journalists, lawyers, civil society activists, human rights defenders have been arrested.
All sections of the Kurdish society and the Turkish left have been and still are under attack.
This conference is another answer to those who would like to silence you.
We are with you with our heart and above all with supportive political intelligence.
