From challenges of state racism, the housing crisis, infrastructural collapse, and climate emergency these sessions, held over three consecutive days, will be an opportunity to work together to extend and deepen understanding of the political situation we are in and how we can imagine ways to survive and thrive.

Day 1: Thinking through Love

We will explore resources of love and mutuality. We start with love in order to centre our collective agency and survey our ability to be more than the circumstances of our limitations. Materials will be presented to consider the practices of sustaining revolutionary love as these emerge in resistance to state violence and state racism, poverty, austerity and climate emergency.

Day 2: Thinking through Study

We will revisit the question of intellectual life in feeding and sustaining resistance. We believe anyone should have access to learning beyond structured education and academic degrees. This session will include introductions to a variety of analytical tools. We will reassess debates about the place of analysis in resistance struggles and consider the necessary components to create intellectual spaces that are open and adequate to the challenges facing us all.

Day 3: Thinking through Struggle

The final day returns to the question of organisation and resistance. We will reflect on our conversations on love and study, considering again how each of these practices informs and enables our capacity to struggle. By using techniques from power mapping, combined with an engagement with writing on political struggles, we will assess the usefulness of a range of political tactics and the possibility of coordinating resistance across the themes of state racism, economic crisis and climate catastrophe.

Practical information

There are separate tickets for each full day of the event, if you would like to attend the full event, please ensure you register for all three days together.

The three days form a succession of progressive learning, but each day will be self-contained and does not rely on attending other days.

The workshops are priced at £8 for one day / £15 for two days / £21 for three days. Please purchase all your tickets simultaneously to qualify for the multiple-day discount.

Who is this course for?

Open to activists, thinkers and learners from different levels.

While there will be presentations and guided activities, no tutor claims to offer the solution to our ills. The space is organised to practice collective thinking and working, with a view to expanding our understanding through sharing different forms of expertise and working through ideas and archival material together.

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