<div dir="ltr">fyi;<div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px">"For a very interesting post-trotskyist organization, check out Italy's Communia Network. </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.communianet.org/" target="_blank">http://www.communianet.org/</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Although it has its historical roots in trotskyism, this network has abandoned top-down politics and the party form, and puts a strong emphasis on the commons, self-management, local organising, networking and construction of counterpower. Great people, really worth looking into."</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">peter waterman</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peterwaterman1936@gmail.com">peterwaterman1936@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 7:35 PM<br>Subject: Re: [Networked-Labour] Muted trumpets announce birth of the latest Left/Marxist/Socialist International<br>To: Theodoros Karyotis <<a href="mailto:tkaryotis@gmail.com">tkaryotis@gmail.com</a>><br>Cc: <a href="mailto:networked-labour_igopnet@lists.igopnet.cc">networked-labour_igopnet@lists.igopnet.cc</a>, "<a href="mailto:CRITICAL-LABOUR-STUDIES@jiscmail.ac.uk">CRITICAL-LABOUR-STUDIES@jiscmail.ac.uk</a>" <<a href="mailto:CRITICAL-LABOUR-STUDIES@jiscmail.ac.uk">CRITICAL-LABOUR-STUDIES@jiscmail.ac.uk</a>>, WSFDiscuss List <<a href="mailto:WorldSocialForum-Discuss@openspaceforum.net">WorldSocialForum-Discuss@openspaceforum.net</a>>, Debate is a listserve that attempts to promote information and analyses of interest to the independent left in South and Southern Africa <<a href="mailto:debate-list@fahamu.org">debate-list@fahamu.org</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small">Well, thanks, Theo. That site is, regrettably, only in Italian, which I can more or less understand via my limited Spanish. So, to do Comunia and ourselves a favour, I did a GoogleTrans job on it, only marginally improved. Interested people can check it up via its edress:<br><br><span id="gmail-m_-6281422487187691723gmail-result_box" class="gmail-m_-6281422487187691723gmail-" lang="en"><span title="Communia Network è una rete politica e sociale, frutto di idee e pratiche che si misurano con la crisi delle sinistre anticapitaliste in Europa e la progressiva marginalizzazione di alternative credibili.">'Communia Network is a social and political network, the result of
ideas and practices that are measured with the crisis of the
anti-capitalist left in Europe and the progressive marginalization of
credible alternatives.<br><br></span><span title="Un progetto che punta a un nuovo lessico politico.">A project that points to a new political vocabulary. </span><span title="Al tempo della crisi strutturale del movimento operaio tradizionale e del vicolo cieco in cui è finita la sinistra istituzionale e non, ci muove l'ambizione di ricostruire luoghi e tempi della lotta di classe, individuando un nuovo linguaggio, un nuovo immaginario, nuovi strumenti di">At
the time of the structural crisis of the traditional labor movement and
the impasse is over the institutional left and not, we move the
ambition to reconstruct the places and times of the class struggle,
identifying a new language, a new imagery, new tools </span><span title="connessione a livello nazionale e internazionale.">at national and international connection.<br><br></span><span title="E' un progetto che vuole rompere con una tradizione ormai inservibile per iniziare a navigare in mare aperto.">It's a project that wants to break with a tradition now useless to start surfing offshore. </span><span title="Ma non ci interessa la tabula rasa.">But we do not care the tabula rasa. </span><span title="Vogliamo ancora utilizzare l'approccio marxiano senza mummificarlo.">We still want to use the Marxian approach without mummification. </span><span title="Ci interessa il marxismo critico, libertario, ci interessa mescolarlo alle riflessioni dell'ecologismo radicale e del femminismo, alle elaborazione critiche del presente.">We
appreciate critical Marxism, libertarian, we are interested in mixing
it to radical ecologists reflections and feminism, to the criticism of
this development. </span><span title="Nessuna nostalgia per vecchie narrazioni, nessuna ansia di nuovismo.">No nostalgia for the old narratives, no anxiety about novelty. </span><span title="Vogliamo costruire un nesso, teorico e politico, con i punti più alti della storia dei movimenti di rivoluzione, da quelli che hanno originato il movimento operaio a quelli essenziali del secolo trascorso.">We want to build a relationship, theoretical and political, with the
highest points in the history of the revolution movements, from those
who originated the labor movement to essential ones of the past century.<br><br></span><span title="In questa chiave puntiamo a costruire, di nuovo, senza nostalgie e pentimenti.">In this spirit we aim to build, again, without nostalgia, and repentance. </span><span title="Puntando su una visione della democrazia diretta e radicale come valore fondante l’emancipazione;">Focusing on a vision of direct democracy as a fundamental value and radical emancipation; </span><span title="sull’autorganizzazione, sull’alternatività al capitalismo e la rottura con le sue regole e leggi come consapevolezza necessaria;">on the self, the alternatives to capitalism and the break with its rules and laws as necessary awareness; </span><span title="sulla dimensione internazionale dei movimenti come spazio indispensabile alla loro efficacia.">the international dimension of the movement as a space necessary for their effectiveness.<br><br></span><span title="Un progetto che mette in rete pratiche fuori mercato, percorsi di riappropriazione e autogestione conflittuale che si misurano con il conflitto attraverso l'autorganizzazione e la pratica di una democrazia reale.">A
project that puts into practice the network free of business, the
reappropriation paths and a combatative self-management that measure up to
the conflict through the self-organization and practice of real
democracy. <br><br></span><span title="L’autogestione conflittuale è un terreno da riempire di significati nuovi, cogliendone la storia, le potenzialità, i limiti e le illusioni, soprattutto dal versante del rapporto con il potere, con sperimentazioni “fuori mercato“.">The confrontational self-management is a field to be filled with new
meaning, taking in the history, the potentials, limitations and
illusions, especially from the side of the relationship with power, with
experiments "outside of business".<br><br></span><span title="La forma di questo progetto è una rete, composta da soggetti che localmente provano a costruire tali pratiche ea connetterle con le lotte per la difesa del territorio, contro lo sfruttamento del lavoro, per il diritto allo studio e al sapere, per l'autodeterminazione di">The
form of this project is a network made up of local people who try to
build such practices and to connect them with the struggle for the
defense of the territory, against the exploitation of labor, the right
to education and to knowledge, self-determination of </span><span title="donne e soggetti lgbit.">women and lgbti subjects.<br><br></span><span title="Se vuoi scriverci per info maggiori: info@communianet.org">If you want to write us for more info: <a href="mailto:info@communianet.org" target="_blank">info@communianet.org</a></span></span><br></div></div><div class="gmail-HOEnZb"><div class="gmail-h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 11:34 AM, Theodoros Karyotis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tkaryotis@gmail.com" target="_blank">tkaryotis@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Peter, I was just about to point out that this is simply the merging of two trotskyist parties -another episode in the endless cycle of splits and mergers of leftist organizations- but then I saw that you noticed it yourself. <div><br></div><div>For a very interesting post-trotskyist organization, check out Italy's Communia Network. </div><div><a href="http://www.communianet.org/" target="_blank">http://www.communianet.org/</a></div><div>Although it has its historical roots in trotskyism, this network has abandoned top-down politics and the party form, and puts a strong emphasis on the commons, self-management, local organising, networking and construction of counterpower. Great people, really worth looking into.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail-m_-6281422487187691723m_-5387828197146411753gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="1" color="#999999"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><a href="http://autonomias.net" target="_blank">autonomias.net</a><br><a href="http://twitter.com/TebeoTeo" target="_blank">twitter.com/TebeoTeo</a></font><br><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>-------------------------</font><br><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">...buscar y saber reconocer quién y qué, en medio del infierno, no es infierno, y hacer que dure, y dejarle espacio...</font></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 December 2016 at 10:35, peter waterman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peterwaterman1936@gmail.com" target="_blank">peterwaterman1936@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><i>Peter sez:</i><br><br></div><div style="font-size:small">I discovered this announcement by chance. Somewhat different from the launching of previous such recent internationals, customarily with sound and fury signifying very little.<br><br></div><div style="font-size:small">So I welcome this one and wish it success. Without, however, expectations. Since it has long seemed to me that the last thing global social emancipation needed today was an organisation or institution, rather than a network. <br><br></div><div style="font-size:small">The argument for this has to do with the compatibility between the capitalist (even pre-capitalist) technology of the past and that of today. <br><br>If, in the 19th-20th century, most counter-hegemonic social movements reproduced, in whole or part, the hierarchical, the pyramidal, form of the capitalist industrial corporation and the increasingly capitalist state, those of the 20th-21st century seem to taking the form of the computerised network. <br><br>There is - Goddesses be Thanked - no International Women's (or Feminist) Organisation (except those left over from the past), nor an ecological or anti-militarist or LGBT one. The only significant new social movement organisation I know of is Via Campesina, the rural labour international (which requires investigation for its survival despite certain crises). Could it be a networked organisation?<br><br></div><div style="font-size:small">The really-existing left, socialist, marxist, autonomist international is surely represented by the innumerable websites - including that of 'International Viewpoint'. That means a form that exists primarily in The Cloud, with all the interpenetrability, and ambiguity, this metaphor suggests. Clearly, it has no Politburo or Central Committee, no 'Lider Maximo', no Prophet. And the flows of influence run not up and down (historically, of course, top-down). Moreover, I would suggest, the decision between conflicting visions and strategies is thrown back to the putative public (me, you, interested and motivated others).<br><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Finally, whilst this initiative describes itself as a (not <i>the</i>) international, the newest social movements surpass the reference to the national (to the state-defined-nation, nationalism, nationalists). I have suggested as alternative to 'international', the 'global solidarity movement'. A one-word alternative would be welcome.<br><br></div><div style="font-size:small">None of this precludes the possibility of this latest project adapting to or taking on the characteristics of the newest radically-democratic anti-hegemonic movements. <br><i><br></i></div><div style="font-size:small"><i>Now read on...</i><br><br><div style="color:navy;font-size:90%">International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine</div>
<div style="font-size:68%;color:rgb(153,153,153);text-align:right"><a href="http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article4799" target="_blank">http://www.internationalviewpo<wbr>int.org/spip.php?article4799</a></div>
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<p>The International Socialist Left (ISL) and the Revolutionary Socialist League (RSB) have merged.</p>
<p>On the weekend of the 3/4 December 2016, in Frankfurt,
the RSB and the ISL united to form The International Socialist
Organisation (ISO) (website: <a href="http://www.intersoz.org" class="gmail-m_-6281422487187691723m_-5387828197146411753m_4137982369823865723gmail-spip_url gmail-m_-6281422487187691723m_-5387828197146411753m_4137982369823865723gmail-spip_out" rel="nofollow external" target="_blank">www.intersoz.org</a>).
This constitutes the united section of the Fourth International in
Germany. Prior to this saw a long period of separate functioning (from
the foundation of the RSB in 1994 and of ISL in 2001) and an
approximately three-year process of moves towards the agreement of a
common programme, a profile and statute of the new organisation, and an
analysis of the current political context and the most pressing tasks of
international socialists and of a revolutionary Marxist organisation.</p>
<p>About 70 members and guests from home and abroad were present on the
first day and took part in the debates. What became clear was the
collective conviction, and indeed the will, of the members of both
organisations to create a fresh start and to confront new questions.
Some of the invited guests expressed a desire to join the new
organisation at the conference itself.</p>
<p>During the years of separation, the primary differences were in
respect of organisational culture and approaches to other left forces.
Whilst these have not fully been eradicated, there has been, during the
fusion process, a clear rapprochement and agreement towards a stable
basis for unity. There is a desire in the ISO to respect and make
productive any future differences of views and approaches.</p>
<p>Members of the new organisation will also continue to work in The
Left Party (Die Linke). Additionally, as a result of this fusion, the
ISO will support the publication of <i>The Socialist News</i> (<i>Die Sozialistische Zeitung</i>
– SoZ) as an independent organ, and also the development of a website
and an organisational magazine. As well as publicity, critical socialist
educational work will be undertaken. The emphasis of our (certainly
strengthened) activities will continue to be in practical work in
industry, trades unions and movements.</p>
<p>At a time when the trades unions and the forces of the political and
social left are on the defensive and the political right and extreme
right are in the ascendency in many countries, the uniting of active
socialist forces, however modest their strength, is a good sign and,
hopefully, one which will provide an impetus to other forces on the
left.</p><span class="gmail-m_-6281422487187691723m_-5387828197146411753HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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