International text call: Anarcho-syndicalism and intersectionality

Greetings,

You are all invited to contribute to the following text call:

https://cedasasced.wordpress.com/2017/12/24/international-text-call-anarcho-syndicalism-and-intersectionality/

It can be a new text or an old one that is already published elsewhere.

Information about ASCED follows the text call at the end of this message.

Solidarity,

ASCED members

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INTERNATIONAL TEXT CALL

To all anarchists who read these lines,

If anarcho-syndicalism has your interest, you are invited to send us
before March 15th 2018 a text of one page (two pages maximum)
elaborating your anarcho-syndicalist perspectives on the fight against
discrimination and on the intersectional struggles that affect women,
racialized, migrants, LGBTQ, disabled, indigenous people, etc. We
strongly encourage people who are discriminated to write a text.

The formula is very open. You don’t have to be an expert in this field.
Your text can be a personal testimony, a personal reflection, an
historical perspective on the scale of your area or the world, an
editorial, a poem, etc. We are also open to texts that do not relate
directly to the suggested theme. For example, you can talk about
anarcho-syndicalist perspectives on gentrification and class struggle in
general. On the other hand, we will keep the freedom not to publish the
texts which correspond to a form of oppression / exploitation (like
anarcho-capitalism, nationalism, racism, social democracy,
marxism-leninism , etc.).

We encourage you to write so that your text is accessible to a large
anarchist public, since our goal is popular education and theoretical
development for all. Since we wish to operate in a bilingual manner, we
will translate as much as possible the texts received before February
15th 2018.

This theme aims to highlight the practices and struggles of
anarcho-syndicalists today to get rid of a certain image and cliché that
we might have, that of a movement of white heterosexuals settlers men.
Is it possible to focus on the struggles of the working class on an
anarchist anti-oppressive basis today? How do you integrate the
emancipation of oppressed groups in the struggles of the popular
movements and more particularly in the anarcho-syndicalist struggles /
groups? Can we develop a revolutionary anarcho-syndicalist perspective
in specific struggles?

All the received texts will be published on Internet (and printed as
much as possible) around April 2018 in a notebook of reflection on our
blog. This will act as a common basis for participants in a discussion
day called « Forum on Anarcho-Syndicalism » to be held at the beginning
of May 2018 at the DIRA anarchist library in the territory of Tio’Tia:Ke
(Montreal, Quebec, Canada) under the theme of the perspectives of
anarcho-syndicalist struggles against discrimination and oppression
(more information to come on this subject).

You can send your text to [email protected] before March 15th 2018
and before February 15th 2018, if you wish to have the chance to get it
translated in the other language.

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WHAT IS THE ASCED?

Created in August 2017, the Anarcho-Syndicalist Collective for Education
and Diffusion (ASCED) is made of anarchist militants from different
parts of Quebec province (Canada). We are a French-English bilingual
collective with no organizational affiliation. Our aim is to spread
anarcho-syndicalist ideas to facilitate the application of
revolutionary, egalitarian, anarchist strategies in the mean to fight
against specific oppression and capitalist exploitation (in both it’s
private and statist forms). Our approach is popular education and
self-education. We have a reading circle and we wish to spread
anarcho-syndicalist material ( documentary projection, zines, texts,
books, blog, etc.). In the end we wish this process feeds debates in
social movements (community groups, unions) and among oppressed and
exploited social groups so that collectively we can radicalize our
practices and social change perspectives.