Confluences
We must acknowledge intriguing connections currently being made between disparate and distant movements. Our task now is to make these confluences much more concrete, combative, and contagious.
We must acknowledge intriguing connections currently being made between disparate and distant movements. Our task now is to make these confluences much more concrete, combative, and contagious.
The starting point for international solidarity should center around two questions. Firstly, is there a popular uprising? And secondly are there people on the ground or elements within that uprising whose vision I share?
Solidary living is something that must be learned, of course. Therein lies the current limit of our social movements: acting beyond the promise of monetary reward takes practice.
Solidarisches Handeln will jedoch gelernt sein. Darin liegt wohl auch die derzeitige Grenze der sozialen Bewegungen. Handeln abseits von monetärer Belohnung muss trainiert werden.
Much of the European left’s argument against the revolution was demanding proof from Syrians on their worthiness of support, asking them to demonstrate that they are “revolutionary enough.”
More than ever the answer to all our mounting grievances must be active solidarity. This may of course be met sooner rather than later with the inhuman resistance of state violence.