Last week took place a Jineolojî camp for the first time in England, organized by the Jineolojî Committee and which was joined by around 35 women coming from the region and cities like London, Manchester, Sheffield, Bristol or Brighton.

The camp was 4 days long and topics like Jineolojî, Democratic Confederalism and the status and role of women in this system and in comparison to the actual system in relation to the mentality, organization and practice, were exposed.

At the same time, several topics were discussed such as “killing the masculinity” and the women’s nature. Moreover topics like the Neolithic age, the establishment of the patriarchal mentality, hierarchy, state and nation-state, and how the capitalist system affects women and society, were deeply discussed. Another important topic of the camp was the deep relation of imperialist mentality with sexism, racism and classism. 

During the presentations the role of mythology, religion, philosophy and sciences, as well as the construction of the European capitalist system in relation to the genocide committed against the wise women, known as witches, were also debated. It was also widely exposed the role that Middle Age in Europe had in shaping the oppression personalities and relations in the society as well as in the destruction of the ethics and moral of the society.  The construction of the patriarchal mentality and its influence in life and health as well as its colonial mentality, was the most discussed topic. In this part of the camp the experiences of historical women’s struggles of England as well as of the genocide of the wise women-witches were discussed. The view into history by the today’s sociology was strongly criticized for not taking in account this part of history.

In another part of the camp, the participants shared their own struggle experiences. Women from alternative, left, feminist, antifascist and anticapitalist movements as well as women from women’s movements with different perspectives, shared their experiences and the situation of their regional struggles as well as they manifested the necessity of building a confederal system of women. It was also proposed to develop in other places as well experiences like the Jinwar one.

It is interesting to note that the place in which the camp was carried out, Hebden Bridge, is the place in which more wise women were killed in the Middle Age.

The camp was dedicated to the memory of Anna Campbell (Helin Qereçox), who fell martyr in Afrin in March 2018 due to an attack of the Turkish state and its mercenaries.

During the camp the participants manifested their solidarity with the hunger strike of Leyla Güven, Nasir Yagiz, Strasbourg activists, Imam Şiş and with all the political prisoners and hunger strikers in Kurdistan and Europe and they affirmed that the demands of Leyla Guven are their demands; to the end with the isolation of the leader Ocalan as main actor for peace.

This Jineolojî camp in England has taken place after the camps and educations organized also in Italy, Germany, Spain, Euskal Herria, Switzerland, Argentina and many other places, in which Jineolojî was introduced and with the aim of building a network of knowledge and science of the social collective memory that has been denied by the written history. This camp, as the other ones, has also the aim of creating a network to rewrite the history of freedom, to uncover the history of slavery and to form a new social contract as alternative to the murderer and denier mentality of the patriarchal, statist and capitalist system.