ECR presents at the Left Forum!

The panel will discuss efforts to organize from the bottom up for local control around the world, using the examples of Kurds in Northern Syria and grassroots initiatives by DSA and Symbiosis in the USA. It will focus on feminist, anti-capitalist, ecological and direct democratic visions of these struggles. The panelists will address the successes and challenges of these movements in bringing women's leadership to the fore in such a way that it cannot be reversed, in building decentralized networks of organizing and governance so as to include the perspectives of people excluded from power and to impact larger political structures, and planting the seeds of a democratized economy for an ecologically conscious society.

Rojava is the site of a women's revolution, a place where women are redefining the nature of politics and taking leadership roles in creating a new multi-ethnic, ecological and radically democratic society. The US and Europe have also experienced a surge in left-libertarian tendencies and organizations such as the DSA’s Libertarian Socialist Caucus and Symbiosis, which emphasizes municipalist politics. Both these groups have pursued a strategy of dual power in an effort to establish the liberated society outside and beyond the use of state power. Inspired by the Rojava revolution, these grassroots groups have concentrated on participatory democracy, solidarity economics and local community organizing.

For more details and the list of speakers: https://www.leftforum.org/events/rojava-us-lessons-feminism-radical-democracy-and-social-ecology

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