The system of nation states is in crisis, especially in the Middle East. There the unresolved crisis is one of the most complex and bloody areas of conflict. Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan proposes the implementation of democratic confederalism as a way out. With this model, the PKK founder, who has been imprisoned on the Turkish prison island of Imrali for 21 years, created - inspired by the libertarian US-American theorist Murray Bookchin - a utopia of a non-national, multi-ethnic model of organisation for a democratic, ecological and gender-free society. This concept, already implemented in Rojava, of reducing the state to local institutions in villages, towns and neighborhoods and thereby transferring all decision-making bodies to these institutions, is the grassroots democratic alternative for living beyond the state, which also guarantees equal rights between ethnic groups and religions.

Sennacherib Barsoum, co-chairman of the Syriac Union Party (Gabo d'Ḥuyodo Suryoyo), which represents the interests of the Christian ethnic groups of the Syriacs in Syria, also believes that this alternative to the capitalist system holds out the prospect of a solution to Syria's problems. In an interview with ANHA, the politician said that a sustainable solution to the Syrian conflict could only be found within the framework of a political solution based on the ideas of Öcalan.

The crisis in Syria began in 2011 with peaceful demonstrations, then a civil war flared up. Today the Syrian war is a complex proxy war that has repercussions for the entire region and the world. "From the outset, these various actors have had the intention of fomenting conflicts between the various population groups in Syria. Only from the unity of the peoples of Syria can an effective and lasting resistance to it develop," says Barsoum.

"For years the rulers of the Middle East have been at war with people who yearn for freedom. This was already happening thousands of years ago. The basis for the system of these ruling powers is still the wedge they have driven between the different peoples. On the other hand, our proposal is to form a unity between peoples. We believe this is both the key to resolving the Syrian crisis and a cross-regional way out of all the other problems of the Middle East," Barsoum said.

The politician added that a new Syrian constitution must be drawn up as soon as possible, guaranteeing the fundamental rights of all the country's citizens. "Anything else introduced under the name 'solution' will only mean the disintegration of Syria,” he emphasized.