Translator introduction As a trans person and committed anarchist living through the right-wing’s rapid and effective assault on trans existence in the United States, it’s clear that the need for powerful and effective mass organizing is of life and death urgency. Yet, for the most part, the responses I see tend to mirror those criticized […]
Read More The Trans Response to the Right’s Attacks: Analysis and ProposalsWe understand strategy as a framework with a specific content. It makes general guidelines within a broad context. These are parameters for action at different fronts and between different camps. This is why strategy, for us, is fundamentally about coordination over time.
Read More Without a consistent revolutionary theory, tactics and strategy are easily confusedWe have to consider more than just what people believe; we have to consider what they do.
Read More The difference between comrades and enemies might seem obvious, but in practice it’s never as clear as it is in theoryWe have to focus our reflections on concrete needs we have because, if we don’t clearly name the needs, a specific organization risks becoming a depoliticizing, essentializing and time-consuming space.
Read More Political organization: how, why, and to what endsWe see social force as the potential for carrying out the revolutionary project to its intended goal.
Read More Producing reality through a process of ruptureRevolutionary strategy has to make sense and be consistent enough to follow even as the situation evolves. It must be sustainable and coherent to effectively hold things together and “prevent unraveling”.
Read More Different from what’s produced by the immediate situation, and different from what’s reproduced by the systemRacism, xenophobia, misogyny, etc. are persistent forces acting against the political solidarity of the oppressed classes.
Read More A new kind of protagonismMilitant style is not a final product or a glossy presentation. It consists of daily tasks that have a strategic direction.
Read More How do we deal with the inevitable zigzagging?The path that a specific organization follows has to be related to the conditions of a more or less stable general situation, but when there is no way forward, another one must be fought for and produced through struggle.
Read More If the conditions change, the priorities and strategic line need to changeTo develop a shared strategic perspective, it’s important to articulate both a plan for what we’re trying to do and a narrative of what we’ve done. This allows us to work together to refine our specific organizational perspective and share it with others, outside of the Center for Especifismo Studies (CES), in the form of writings, discussion groups, and public seminars.
Read More The Simple Machine Model
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