Towards a joint struggle?

The consequences of geopolitical injustice, social inequality and ecological urgency are intensifying, deepening tangible and long lasting rifts. There is an urgent need to act for change of the capitalist heteropatriarchal white supremacist model of endless extraction and exploitation. Between the lack of access to quality housing, care and education, having one’s papers, exhaustion caused by invisibilised and exploitative jobs, systemic racism and other oppressive mechanisms, cries the call for a life in dignity that deserves to be considered together.

Facing this, we feel that it’s essential for struggles to converge, in order to leave no one behind and to share our forces of counterpower. This call for a conjuncture of struggles is also held amongst the crème de la crème of Belgium's activist collectives regarding their struggles, visions and practices of collective care.

To this end, we are pleased to welcome VSP, Tamarod and collectif Susu, whose work is aimed at highlighting and fighting social struggles. With them, we would like to explore: What is counterpower? What does it mean in concrete terms to disrupt existing power structures? Where can we find common ground for our different struggles? And how do we make activism sustainable for the people involved?