Last time we discussed misogyny pervasive in our society and permeating into leftist and anarchist organizing, as well as Subcomandante Marcos’ rejection of representative vanguardist politics. This led us to read more into democratic Indigenous organizing, as well as a companion piece that follows an Indigenous-settler anarcha-feminist group’s perspective. Our next two readings are: A Look at the Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca-Ricardo Flores Magón (CIPO-RFM) by the Northeastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists digs into the CIPO-RFM, an Indigenous grassroots movement, and Interview with Julieta Paredes of Mujeres Creando, which describes how the Bolivian anarcha-feminist group Mujeres Creando draws from their Andean heritage, from feminism, and from anarchism to fight patriarchy, power, the State and militarism.
The Northeastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists’ “A Look at the Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca-Ricardo Flores Magón (CIPO-RFM)” is available for free to read on the Anarchist Library: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/northeastern-federation-of-anarcho-communists-a-look-at-the-popular-indigenous-council-of-oaxac
Interview with Julieta Paredes of Mujeres Creando is also available for free to read on the Anarchist Library: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/julieta-paredes-interview-with-julieta-paredes-of-mujeres-creando
As always, we are meeting at Camas Books, 2620 Quadra Street, on Lekwungen Territory. The next meeting is Sunday April 30 @ 6:30PM.
After our enthusiastic conversation about the Zapitistas’ model of Participatory Democracy, we wanted to delve more into Zapatista cosmovisión (worldview) and organization by reading Subcomandante Marcos’s “I Shit On All the Revolutionary Vanguards of this Planet,” which is a response to the Basque liberation movement Euskadi Ta Askatasuna’s (ETA) advocation of vanguardist politics. We also teased out the idea of future readings about Rojava in a continuation of our exploration of democratic centralism. Therefore, we decided in anticipation to also include the Feminist Anarchist Border Opposition’s Why Misogynists Make Great Informants, which tackles misogyny and gender violence in left-activist circles and movements.