Commons Self Educate

WTF is the Commons? FF17 Input

The commons is a complicated vision of autonomy, where freedom from and freedom to are brought together in a messy experiment. Commoning is not ‘the’ solution, but it is a crucial tool to be used in building liveable lives in, against and beyond the state and capital.Just how practical is it to think that we can make our lives autonomous from the state and the market? What are the barriers to doing so?

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Anti-fascism

Festival Input: Anti-Fascism and the Commons

Liz Fekete (Institute of Race Relations) has kindly turned her speech from the opening plenary of Fast Forward 2017 into this text. Some points towards understanding the importance of anti-fascism for the Commons and the development of counter-power. They Shall Not Pass – in its broadest sense – is a passionate encapsulation of the interdependent relationship between the fight for humanity and the defence of the Commons.

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Plan B+

Initial thoughts re: The World Transformed, the Labour Party and the Libertarian Left.

Any movement that could emerge and go beyond the limits (real or imagined) of the LP will almost certainly grow from within the base of the LP and its external support networks. So we need to get involved with these initiatives, argue our case for something larger than electoralism alone and get organised within these forms- but that doest imply subsumption- we need to leave communication, exit strategies and back channels open. This is essential if we are not to be outmaneuvered or defeated if Corbyn’s leadership collapses

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Commons Feminism

TWT 2017 Input: Radical Childcare

Red feminism starts from the idea that reproduction and care are at the centre of our politics and lives. But, our vision of reproduction is one in which we have collectively refused those aspects of reproduction that are part of the problem. So that little girls can dream of being more than princesses. Boys will not just be boys, because boys grow up to the men. Men who will need more than just an understanding of consent and women’s autonomy. A red feminist horizon is one in which the work of reproduction and mothering is not devalued, undertaken because of love or reduced to ‘nature’ – but instead distributed among the community, revalued, supported and celebrated as the work that makes life and labour possible.

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