Thoughts and Aims

Given the fairly new composition of the meeting and of the organising collective we are cautious of defining narrow goals for the meeting. At the same time we don't want to leave the discussion about 'how to continue' to the final round. In the following we want to formulate some general expectations which can hopefully inform the discussions of the workshops during the meeting.

 

We hope that as a result of the meeting we can:

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- establish a more formalised international coordination of groups and individuals, based on a common political platform. 

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- strengthen local initiatives through developing a more coordinated international effort.

 

Whether or not an international coordination has any relevance will depend on us agreeing on a more clearly defined political focus and concrete work plan for actual collective research and debate in order to produce common material for intervention, e.g. a pamphlet with lessons from the various strikes in Europe at the moment.   

 

It would be good for local groups to share reflections on their current condition and their previous efforts of 'coordinated work', for example the work around the Communaut initiative, experiences with (anarcho-)syndicalist or left-communist internationals, previous summercamps or around the 'Fever Struggle' website. Perhaps comrades could write up their experiences within these international initiatives and share them ahead of the meeting.

 

* Common platform

 

Although we are wary of the traditional hobby of many anarchists and left-communists to endlessly discuss their political platform, the rifts during the pandemic and the war in Ukraine have shown us the significance of a more explicit political basis for our initiatives. This is not the place to formulate such a basis, instead we can perhaps refer to three 'platforms' that participating groups have presented about themselves.

 

https://communaut.org/de/ueber-uns

https://kon-flikt.org/en/who-are-we/angry

https://www.angryworkers.org/about/

 

Based on a common understanding of what an international coordination is about, we should engage in a collective debate about the 'state of the global milieu' in order to ascertain who we think we could currently cooperate with. 

 

* Political focus

 

Some ideas could be:

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a) producing a deeper understanding and critique of current significant strikes and movements; 

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b) following collectively the development of the global imperialist tensions and wars and the potentials to oppose them; 

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c) deepening the debate about a pragmatic transitional program or an empirical vision of 21st century revolution and its relation to the ongoing economic, political and military struggles of the class; 

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d) extending and deepening the collaboration between those organisations, fragments and individuals committed to autonomous working class struggles.