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ROUNDTABLE ON G8 RESISTANCE
Perspectives for the Next Phase of
Global Anti-Capitalist Uprisings

Moderated by Kriss Sol (Amsterdam);
with Hanne Jobst (Germany), Sabu & Go
(Japan), Miranda (Italy), and Jaggi
Singh (Canada)

The G8 is more than a place where neoliberal
trade agreements are authored. It is also a
space where the legitimacy of global governance

Interventions # 1

Roundtable on g8 Resistance: Perspectives for the Next Phase of Global Anti-Capitalist Uprisings first appeared in Issue 6 of Upping the Anti: a Journal of Theory and Action. Click here to download the pamphlet cover and click here for the guts of the PDF File.

The G8 is more than a place where neoliberal trade agreements are authored. It is also a space where the legitimacy of global governance is reproduced. In 2005, 300,000 people took to the streets in Edinburgh to ask the G8 for a solution to poverty. By 2007, antagonism and dissent prevailed once again. We are entering a period that could mark the resurgence of positive dynamics from the earlier phase of global uprisings. But have we learned from the past? Can we build our interventions on new and more stable ground?

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By the Sudbury Branch of the NSG

Central to the revolutionary project for us is the development of
workers and oppressed people's capacities for self-organization and the
establishment of their own forms of power in response to the power of
capitalists, bureaucratic hierarchies and professional "experts". The
development of party projects has historically taken two major forms on
the left. The first is the party of the moderate and social democratic
left seen clearly in the NDP that reproduces hierarchy and bureaucracy
in its own forms of organization (as in the trade union bureaucracies)
and also comes to stand over and against the struggles of workers and
oppressed people. This works against self-organization and the
development of socialist transformation.

In December of 2003, the Toronto grouping of Autonomy & Solidarity decided to initiate a Political Prisoner Working Group (which has now evolved into a group called Sumoud - Arabic for "steadfast"). On December 9th, 2003, we came up with the following perspective for the Working Group. These aims are still in a process of elaboration and development but form the basis for the founding of Sumoud.

(This is a letter sent to the NSG by NSG members of the A&S tendency in December of 2003. It is reproduced here to provide some background about the development of A&S.)




Dec 12, 2003

This is the founding document of the Autonomy and Solidarity tendency as it existed within the NSG. Although it was being worked on for several months, the impetus to launch the tendency came from the debates at the NSG's August convention. At its founding meeting on November 15th 2003, the tendency decided to constitute itself as a seperate political formation from the NSG, although some members of A&S, notably those in Sudbury, remain dual members of both A&S and the NSG.

The following document was written for the New Socialist Group's Internal Discussion Bulletin in July of 2003. Some of the ideas and critiques in it were important in terms of the development of Autonomy & Solidarity as a tendency within the NSG and for that reason we think it is important to reproduce it here. Although this document was written for internal distribution within the NSG, the arguments within it do not pertain to internal or confidential NSG matters and can thus we beleive it can be publically shared with the author's permission. Hopefully this document will provide a useful starting point to discuss the intersections of anarchist communism and concepts of socialism from below and some of the perspectives of members of A&S.

We are announcing the formation of Autonomy & Solidarity – a political network of discussion and activism for revolutionary activists. Autonomy & Solidarity is an exploratory network and political space for socialists, anarchists and anti-capitalists who believe that revolutionary transformation will come from exploited and oppressed people self-organizing from below and not from the top down organizing of any state, party or union bureaucracy. Our name comes from our support for the autonomous struggles of workers and the oppressed, and from our belief in building forms of solidarity that address all forms of oppression and exploitation.