Here is a brief outline of our strategy. It’s divided into 4 areas:
1. Grassroots Democratic Assemblies in Neighborhoods & Workplaces
A directly democratic assembly is a decision-making body where all members of a community or group participate. This is in contrast to representative democracy, like a city council, where people elect others to deliberate and decide on their behalf.
It’s here where we organize community defense, offensive actions like protests and strikes, as well as mutual aid. The assemblies become our grassroots alternatives, challenging and ultimately contesting the authority of the undemocratic fascist government and its capitalist supporters. We start with a city-wide assembly and build out from there.
2. Mutual Aid To Support One Another & Sustain Our Movement
Our goal is to provide mutual feedback and support in the process of creating, building and sustaining popular assemblies. This form of mutual aid and tangible assistance is there to spread and deepen our individual efforts.
The purpose of this mutual aid is not to dictate a particular way of doing things, but to build our collective knowledge, foster the solidarity and material capacity required to withstand repression, escalate resistance, and practice liberation. The connections we are building with each other, to whatever degree, will help build our strength as political conditions continue to worsen.
3. Community Defense Against Fascists, their Dictatorship, & Bosses
At its most urgent, community defense means protecting people from fascist attack, whether that be violence in the streets, ongoing ICE raids, attacks on community spaces, businesses, etc. When fascists threaten with terror, we respond with organized, collective self-defense to directly meet violence with the greater strength of solidarity. While being particularly aware of state repression directed at us as organizers, we see the need for active solidarity and strategic collective action whenever possible.
4. Organizing Toward General Strikes Where We Shut the Economy Down
The role of the assemblies is to establish the potential for dual power by acting as an alternative to the existing systems of capitalism and the representative “democracy” of the settler colony’s republic. The assemblies operate independently, making decisions as a community or workplace.
The crises we face (political, economic, ecological, social) are also opportunities if we are ready to seize them. We need to be able to move from local organizing, to widespread collective action and resistance, to challenging the economic order premised upon the exploitation of people and nature, the historical social systems of hierarchy and dehumanization, and the state which manages those systems and represses those that seek to challenge them.
Defensive actions in the face of fascist threats means building bases of support. While defending ourselves and our communities is of central importance, we feel that remaining on the defensive is insufficient. We also need to build the capacity to transition to offensive strategic actions when conditions are favorable or otherwise demand it. We will need to be able to effectively escalate to the level of general strikes and other durable forms of non-compliance such as popular occupations of public space.
In order to do this we will need to build a mass movement through community defense and widespread popular protest, promoting the development of a popular consciousness that can see and move towards a better way to live.
