Poznan 2024
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9:30 - 10:30
The Organizing Committee gives an introduction to the camp, explains how it is organized and who is organizing it
- The Organizing Committee presents the program for the 4 days,
- We explain why we want to introduce feminist methods to the camp,
discuss what their aim is, why we think they are important
- We introduce some of the methods that we will use: smaller groups, mumble rounds, speakers list with double quotas,
ice-breaker activities, hand signs
- We get to know each other
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10:30 - 11:15
We introduce and discuss the rules
11:30 - 12:30
- We evaluate the notes from the last session in Varna
- Input about what we want to achieve with the summercamp
- We talk about our expectations for the summercamp and evaluate the last summercamp
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A note about Varna - feel free to add comments
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12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:30
- Input "How to fight (patrirachy) together" How can we enable ourselves
to work together in the next years? Here we refer on the book by Kim
Posster "Männlichkeit verraten" ("Betraying masculinity")
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16:15 - 18:00
- We introduce our ideas of the care group and its function and start a
discussion process about what awareness structure we want to establish at the summercamp
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Read the summary of the day here 🔗
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* For Class Struggle against War and Militarisation
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9:30 - 11:00
A brief introduction to the day - Where we were at Varna and the bloody spiral since
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Suggested pre-readings
Our Politics from Varna (particularly the paragraphs on Internationalism in the Common Platform)
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followed by
Anti-War Internationalism - Considering Revolutionary Defeatism
Introductions - Old Moles and Vogliamo Tutto
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Suggested pre-readings
Slides from June 16th pre-meeting
Book chapter from June 16th pre-meeting
Documents from and reply to Si Cobas/TIR
Women's anti war actions in Russia
Recent article from Assembly (Ukraine)here
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11:00 - 11:15
Break
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11:15 - 11:45
Work in smaller groups to consider themes such as :-
1.- Origins of war: capitalist crisis.
2.- Media propaganda for war
3.- Left and social-democracy propaganda
4.- Exploitation and front line
5.- Class war
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Comrades will be able to input the results of these exercises into the session starting at 16:00.
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11:45 - 13:00
Israel/Palestine, the Middle East and the spreading war
Introduction - Kon-Flikt
Suggested pre-reading
https://kon-flikt.org/en/analysis/on-the-situation-in-gaza
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13:00 - Lunch and presentation - 14:15
Presentation by PAAW
Anti-War Demonstrations around International Women's Day - Italy 2024
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14:15 - 15:45
Coordinating resistance - Breaking the boundaries
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A list of predominantly European based Internationalist anti-war initiatives is at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sZYpmx-6KPH14N34__Elr-d4sHUd7MdOiQ7GNwa3IJc/edit
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All comrades will be able to attend and discuss presentations around two current internationalist initiatives.
Speakers -
A.B./Bandeira Vermelha - Text here
PAAW Articles here- Presentation from a core member
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We have also received this statement from the recent Internationalist anti-war conference Arezzo
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16:00 - 18:00
Internationalism in our Common Platform - Revisiting the formulation from Varna
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This will allow us all to review the discussions from earlier in the day and work towards an agreed statement.
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Important pre-reading
#1. Internationalism in the Common Platform in Our Politics from Varna
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Recommendation from Vogliamo Tutto is that the first paragraph in Internationalism in the Common Platform is deleted and the second is rewritten as follows- "States worldwide serve to uphold capitalist production, reproduction of class relations and exploitation of labor. Global capitalist relations have produced a global working class, the division of which into national working classes competing with each other is a major factor for class disunity. Capitalist power can only be overcome internationally based on antinational global class consciousness and action. Therefore working towards international class solidarity and perspective is pivotal.
In wars waged between capitalist nations the global working class has nothing to gain and it’s always working people taking the brunt in lives lost and lives disrupted on all sides. At the same time wars tend to deepen class disunity along national lines and especially call for building international revolutionary structures that are able to unite the class against global capital."
19:00 - 20:30
Economic Aspects of militarisation
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Presentation by Revolutionäre Klärung followed by discussion.
Comrades are encouraged to bring a few paragraphs to share about the situation in their own territory.
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Read the summary of the day here 🔗
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* Strikes and beyond
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9:00 - 9:45
Recap of the discussion on inflation and strikes from Varna
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​9:45 - 11:30
Discussing strikes historically and politically
C. will present ideas concerning, strikes and historic political tendencies.
​Suggested pre-reading
The containment of class struggle in the global North - A historical overview in five charts
​The short winter of inflation
Break
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Experiences from Brazil
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​D. will talk about the recent wider background, strikes and current experiences of their collective
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Lunch
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Experiences from Serbia
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​S. will tell us about the current strikes in Serbia and the political trajectory of their group.
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Break
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Vital Signs - Hospital mag
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​L. and M. will present the political ideas behind their new hospital mag
​Suggested reading: https://www.angryworkers.org/2024/05/22/vital-signs-a-magazine-for-a-revolutionary-orientation-in-the-health-sector/
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How to proceed with the debate
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A short round to discuss if there are main issues that we want to focus on in future exchanges.
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​ 18:00 - 19:30
Dinner
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19:30 – 21:00
Co-research and student-worker struggles
​We will be joined by comrades from the European university-worker network who will talk about the concept of 'workers' inquiry' and recent student-worker dormitory occupations.
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They explain:
Research and Student-Worker Struggles
Spontaneity can be generally understood as class movements that, sometimes overt, sometimes covert, always oppose, disrupt and challenge the capitalist management of our lives. Our task, as militants, is to understand these spontaneous movements and organise them against the present state of things. Fortunately, we can rely on the most powerful tool the history of class struggles has left us: co-research. Co-research is a means of knowledge production and practical intervention in reality. It is a way of interacting with the social environment of workers, students, and social subjects in general. Not just to know and understand the world they live in, but to subvert it together. We will discuss what co-research is, which relies largely on the theoretical weapons produced by Operaismo in Italy during the class struggles of the sixties and seventies. We will also introduce a contemporary application of its principles by university students organised in the Workers’ Initiative. We will go over our experiences with carrying out co-research during occupations and protests at university. Could it be the tool that finally puts an end to the decades-long drought in the Polish student movement and engages more young people in political struggle?
Suggested reading:
https://viewpointmag.com/2020/04/30/a-science-of-destruction-an-interview-with-gigi-roggero-on-the-actuality-of-operaismo/
https://ephemerajournal.org/contribution/notes-framing-and-re-inventing-co-research
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Read the summary of the day here 🔗
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9:30 - 11:00
The Revolution in Portugal 1975 revisited
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We want to discuss the experience of 1975 in relation to current debates about transition and organisation. Comrades A. and A. can help us with inputs.
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and suggested reading in German:
https://edition-nautilus.de/programm/portugal-die-unmoegliche-revolution/
11:00 - 11:30
Break
11:30-13:00
Labour time calculation and Communist mapping
Comrades from Arbeitszeitberechnung will tell us about their current take on the debate about labour time calculation in a communist transition and comrades from Hungary and Finland will provide an imput about their research and method: "the mapping of the productive forces and the planning of societal reproduction (without money outside state and against capital for communisation/communism)". We will moderate the discussion with additional references to the text 'Forest and Factory'.
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Suggested reading:
https://endnotes.org.uk/posts/forest-and-factory
https://arbeitszeit.noblogs.org/
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13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 -16:30
Final round - How to go further with the summercamps?
16:30 - 17:30 Break
17:30 -18:30
A film project on transition
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Short presentation from labournet.tv and
friends
We want to discuss the idea and draft structure for a film on
revolutionary transition in the 21st century.
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