Internationalist Resonances of the Kurdish Struggle

This article offers a reading of the contemporary Kurdish movement through the prism of an internationalism rooted in popular, feminist and anti-imperialist struggles, while documenting the resilience of a movement rooted in the margins but turned towards the universal. It traces the history of transnational oppression—from the colonial fragmentation of Kurdistan to the authoritarian logics of post-colonial states—and highlights the way in which the PKK has articulated a cross-border political project based on solidarity between peoples. The central role of the diaspora, the inter-ethnic alliances and the revolutionary experience of Rojava are analysed as expressions of an internationalism from below, combining anti-imperialist, socialist, feminist and decolonial struggles. Led largely by women, this project questions the classic frameworks of nationalism, state feminism and vertical forms of commitment, in favour of an autonomous, intersectional and transnational resistance.