IWe Want Our World Back
The fourth international conference “Challenging capitalist modernity – we want our world back” ended late on Sunday afternoon in the event rooms of the Wilhelmburg community center in Hamburg. Around 1,300 participants from all over the world ended the conference chanting the slogan “Jin, Jiyan, Azadî”
Four days full of knowledge exchange, discussion and networking. In a total of six sessions, activists and scientists from all over the world spoke about the diverse destruction of human and natural livelihoods by capitalism and how we can counter this with resistance, art, education and democratic confederalism.
“They want to ban us because they are afraid of us and our ideas”
The conference was overshadowed by the short-term cancellation of the premises of the Hamburg University. Although the organizers had to find an alternative conference location within a week and adjust the schedule accordingly, the event was a success, not least thanks to the flexibility of the speakers and many helping hands. In all sessions, the university's decision and the criminalization by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution was heavily criticized: "They want to ban us because they are afraid of us and our ideas," said the sociologist John Holloway.
Analyses and struggles against the destructive logic of the capitalist system
The conference began on Thursday evening with some opening speeches. On Friday morning, Kurdish and Irish artists presented a joint dance performance, followed by loud applause from the audience. Spread over the weekend, a total of more than 30 international speakers spoke about their analysis and struggles against the destructive logic of the capitalist system and what kind of community organizing can push back this.
The program on Saturday took place at different locations in Hamburg; the Gängeviertel, the Rote Flora and the Centro Sociale. In 23 different workshops, the participants were able to exchange ideas about Jineolojî, history and resistance, art, mythology, Armenian history and Marx and Öcalan's analyses, or network with each other in the Govend, the Kurdish dance.
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