OUR STRATEGY
Here is a brief outline of our strategy.
It’s divided into 4 areas:
1. Grassroots Democratic Assemblies in Neighborhoods & Workplaces
2. Mutual Aid To Support One Another & Sustain Our Movement
3. Community Defense Against Fascists, their Dictatorship, & Bosses
4. Organizing Toward General Strikes Where We Shut the Economy Down
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
Mutual aid is like an advanced form of sharing. It is the communal practice of providing essential resources such as food, shelter, medical care, and protection to one another, democratically. It helps us sustain our lives, while also fighting fascism and their capitalist supporters. It fosters the solidarity and material capacity required to withstand repression, escalate resistance, and practice liberation.
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, raids on community spaces, businesses, etc. or directly targeting people from marginalized groups in their homes, including for detention and deportation. When fascists threaten with terror, we respond with organized, collective self-defense to directly meet violence with the greater strength of solidarity.
4. Organizing Toward General Strikes Where We Shut the Economy Down
The general strike refers to the mass refusal to work, which shuts down the economy, and is typically seen as an offensive action. It is a means for the working class to paralyze the functioning of a fascist government and to pose directly the question of who holds power in society.
Defensive action in the face of fascist threats builds the base of support. But remaining on the defensive is insufficient, so the key is to transition to the offensive when conditions are favorable or otherwise demand it. Before we can actually pull off a general strike, we need to build a mass movement through defense, protest, and more.