International Revolutionary Youth Camp

International youth camp 2017 programme

Friday 19 May 2017 by Antoine

Day by day programme with plenaries

Sunday 23rd

19-20 delegation meeting

20-21.30 dinner

21:30 rally: chair IT
- welcome to the camp (IT)
- presentation of camp and spaces (IT)
- being revolutionaries today (EE)

Monday 24th

7.50-8.45 breakfast

8:45-9:15 delegation meeting

9:30 – 11:00 – The material conditions of the oppressed today: focus on the youth – Marine/ Elena/Violaine (FR) - chair (CH).
In the context of the crisis of the neoliberalism, we’d like to focus on the life conditions of working class youth both of students and precarious workers, on those layers of populations that heavily suffer from cuts to welfare state and from the normalization of precarity as a life condition. The analysis takes into account intersectionality (between gender, class, sexuality, race, age, geography factors) and has the goal to provide useful tools to investigate the class composition today.

11:00-12:15 Women’s space

12:15- 13:15 Forum on direct grassroots experiences of welcoming migrants (I, GR, F - Ens, CH) - chair (B - Chichi)
Forum held by migrants that are part of experiences inside or close to our organizations, that could share their experiences of struggle and welcoming, experiences that saw a central role of the self-organization of migrants themselves.

13:15-15 lunch

15-16:30 free time/interdelegations

16:30-18 Workshops

18 – 19:15 LBTIQA space

19:15-20:45 Delegation meeting

20:45-22 dinner

22 Party (closing 2:30) + eventual social game (if some delegation proposes to organize it during the next month)

Tuesday 25th

7.50-8.45 breakfast

8:45-9:15 Delegation meeting

9:30 – 11:30 From the revolutionary processes in the Arab region as uprisings to war in Syria: the barbarism of imperialism Peter Drucker - chair GB.
Victories and defeats of the revolutionary processes in the Arab region make it necessary and urgent to re-analyse the geopolitical dynamics, not only in the Mediterranean area, but on a global scale. The educational should focus on the situation in Syria and touch several aspects: loss of the hegemonic role of the US in the Arab zone, growth of the economic power of China, Russian interventionism, positioning of European Union. Consequences of imperialism are analysed from an intersectional viewpoint.

11:45-13.00 LGBTIQA space

13:15-15 lunch

15-16:30 Free time/interdelegation/commissions

16:30-18 Workshops

18 – 19:15 Women’s space

19:15-20:45 Delegation meeting

20:45-22 dinner

22 Party (closing 2:30)+ Practical workshop on civil disobedience (GR)

Wednesday 26th

7.50-8.45 breakfast

8:45-9:15 delegation meeting

9:30 – 10:45 Women’s global strike (Argentina, Poland, Greece, Italy + chair (EE)) .
Experience of the women’s strike in different countries, with an international perspective. Mobilization of women in different contexts, composition of the movement, demands. Link between gender issue and capitalism, starting from the goal to stop from productive and reproductive work.

10:45-12 Women’s space

12-13:30 Educational: Intersectionality and international perspective in feminist movements today (Tatiana Montella) - chair IT
Gives elements of analysis and tool to understand nowadays hetero-patriarchy, proposing intersectionality as a useful theory towards the construction of feminist, queer, antiracist and class-based narrations and resistances.

13:30-15 lunch

15-16:30 Free time/interdelegations/commissions

16:30-18 Workshops

18-19:15 LGBTIQA space

19:15- 20:45 Delegation meeting

20:45-22 dinner

22 Rally (on women’s party)

Women’s party (closing at 3:30)

Thursday 27th

7.50-8.45 breakfast

8:45-9:15 delegation meetings

9:30 – 11:00 Dissident sexuality in neoliberal era (Sergio from Portugal) - chair DK.
Neoliberalism valorizes productive and reproductive force through processes of normalization, control and false freedom, managing to keep strong alliances with the reactionary and conservative forces in its interior. The struggle for homosexual marriage, ”gay friendly” and “women’s quotas” rhetorics are used in such a way to reshape the human and democratic appearance of the advanced capitalist states and are often used in the imperialist and neocolonialist offensive against different cultures. The educational thus tries to individuate the significance of resistance to neoliberalism starting from sexual identities, looking for alliances with non conformal subjectivities (identities) and sexualities, and reproposing sexuality, bodies, and self-determination as central elements in the anticapitalist struggle.

11:00-12:15 LGBTIQA space

12:15- 13:15 Forum (Palestine, Black Lives Matter, Ireland, Russia - chair (GR).
This forum is on lgbt and queer experiences, which differ from one another. From the Palestinian queers resisting Israel and Islamic culture itself, to the experiences of Russian comrades, heavily hit by homophobic, violent and sexist policies by the government. From the situation of Ireland, which allows homosexual marriage in a heavily conservative system (abortion is forbidden), to the Black Lives Matter collectives, exemplary experiences that fight against white, bourgeois and hetero/homonormative narrations.

13:15-15 lunch

15-16:30 Free time/interdelegations/commissions

16:30-18 Workshops

18 – 19.15 Women’s space

19:15-20:45 Delegation meeting

20:45-22 dinner

22 rally (party presentation)

LGBTIQA Party (closing 3:30)

Friday 28th

7.50-8.45 breakfast

8:45-9:15 Delegation meeting

9:30 – 11:00 Territories in struggle between city and countryside Sem terra (BR)–Fuori Mercato (I) +Peter (DK) - chair (CH).
Educational which starts from the analysis of some exemplary experiences of territorial resistance in different contexts around the world. In particular, we’d like to focus on the link that these experiences generated between the environmental and food sovereignty issues, on the self-determination of the use of land resources and (in some cases) in the self-managing of production, according to a democratic and participative model, alternative to the capitalistic scheme and able to create solidarity links between different contexts. Rethinking production starting from the defence of environment and commons and, at the same time, of labour, has led in some cases to the necessity of rethinking the relation producer-consumer and countryside-city.
The educational starts with the interventions of concrete experiences/struggles, and will be concluded by an intervention (----) that will analyse more theoretically the ecosocialist perspective.

11:15-16:30 free time/excursion to self-managed place by migrants nearby “Masseria”, where the production of the tomato sauce takes place (to be confirmed)

16:30-18 Workshops

18:00 – 19:15 Joint women- LGBTIQ space

19:15-20:45 Delegation meeting

20:45-22 dinner

22 Party “If I cannot dance, that’s not my revolution” (theme party on revolutionaries of all times) (closing 2:30)

Saturday 29th

7.50-8.45 breakfast

8:45-9:15 Delegation meeting

9:30 – 11:00 Selforganization and Poder Popular (Gigi Malabarba + Ernesto
Diaz) - chair (Latin America).
Thinking about and organizing revolutionary resistance and fight means also posing some questions about the present situation: the disaggregation of the working class movement, the crisis of the neoliberal model, the new forms of normalization of sexual identities, the dramatic scenarios of imperialism and the destruction and plundering of the environmental resources, the concentration of wealth and the wealth monopoly held by the 1% of population. All these elements bring to the fore the issue of power relations. Not just who decides, but rather who should decide on our lives.
Self-organization in the working class movement, in the women’s movement, and in liberation movements, has been a central issue and today is once again a means of politicization, creating the conditions to organize the revolutionary forces. We invite the two speakers to debate on self-organization, poder popular (popular power) and political organization.

11:00-12:15 LGBTIQA space

12:30- 13:45 Women’s space

13:45-15 lunch

15-16.30 workshops

16-18.30 Delegation meeting

18.30- 20 Cleaning and packing (and camp coordination in the meantime)

20-21.15 dinner

21.30 Closing rally (IT, FI, next camp) - chair F-ens

Day by day workshops
Remember that each delegation should send an abstract of the workshop that they are going to introduce. To be sent before the camp!

Monday 24th

- Precarious struggles in young Working Class (GR)
- Building student’s organization (I and F-NPA )
- The student’s role in Nuit Debout and the loi Travail (F-Ens)
- Politicization of the youth and popular culture the example of the ultras (EE)
- Youth Precarity: EU institutional acts on flexible jobs (unpaid placements, “gig economy”) (EE)
- Alternative unionism (I)
- Drugs and youth (EE)
- Mental health and Capitalism (GB and DK)
- Intergenerational solidarity (DK)
- Feminization of labour market and capitalist exploitation of women and lgbitq* subject (I)
- Police violence (F-Ens and NPA)

Tuesday 25th

- Restriction of refugees as a system of asylum policies (CH)
- An overview on Turkish situation (TUR or F)
- Struggling for free movement, welcoming and solidarity “from below” (I and B)
- Sex trade connected with migrant flux (F-NPA)
- The rise of the new far-right and fascism (EE and CH)
- Citizenship and migrants (I)
- Russia as a new imperialist power and the left reaction (B)
- An intersectional struggle: the experience of “Madrid para todas” (EE)
- The self-organization of racialized people in Europe (B and F)
- Neocolonialism nowadays: franc CFA and Guyane situation (F-NPA)
- The origin of racism: theoretical workshop(CH and F - NPA)

Wednesday 26th

- Loss of women’s rights in Europe today (I)
- What does it means that the women retake the concept of strike? (I)
- Structural machist violence (EE and GR)
- Non-western feminisms (Non-western delegations)
- Islamophobia and feminisms (DK)
- Women slavery (F-NPA)
- Women in the Russian Revolution (F-NPA)
- Self defense in leisure space (EE)
- The origin of the sisterhood (EE)
- Marxism, gender and sexuality: the place of transwomen in the class struggle feminism (F-NPA)
Thurday 27th
- Romantic love and polyamory: reactualisation of Kollontaj (I and F-NPA)
- Gender as a social construction (B)
- Imaginaries, eros and pornography (I)
- How the LgbT can strike against the rainbow washing? (F-Ens)
- The construction of the political subject in lgbt identities (EE and B)
- Homo-femo-nationalism and migrant situation (DK)
- Material conditions for the reproduction of the social structures (CH)
- Queer up the world (DK)
- The role of the lgbtiq in contamporary uprises (Brazil or F-NPA )
- link between lesbian struggle and feminism (EE)

Friday 28th

- Eco-feminism: women defending territories (F)
- Land grabbing and land re-appropriation (CH)
- Food sovereignty, production chain and alternative distribution: Fuori Mercato, ... (I)
- Environmental migration caused by climate change and vulture imperialism (CH)
- No TAP, movement against trans-adriatic gas pipeline (I) (with activists form the struggle, if the struggle is still active)
- The relation between the far-right and the denial of climate change (EE)
- Veganism and ecosocialism (EE)
- The Standing Rock conflict (US or DK)
- Sabotage of energy production: The example of protest of Ende gelande (G or DK)
- The impossible green capitalism (FR)

Saturday 29th

- CADTM: Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (I and B)
- Advisory counciliar democracy and “poder popular”: the Russian Revolution experience (I)
- Alternative city governments (I and EE)
- Revolutionary organization, broad parties and our intervention in the elections (EE and F-NPA)
- The place of internationalism in our struggles (F-NPA)
- Marxism and populism (EE and F-Ens)
- European situation and Plan B: building alternatives and disobey against the EU agreements (F-Ens and DK)
- Mass civilian disobedience: The example of the G20 meeting in Hamburg (D/DK) (Germany not sure if they can introduce)
- Brexit (GB)
- Marxism and science (I)
- Marxism theory of the State (GR)
- What new International is necessary and possible (D)

Women’s space programme

Monday 24th Empowerment and introduction to the space (DK) (+10 minutes in the end for the Spanish comrades to present the proposal of permanent commission on international campaign against machis violence)

Tuesday 25
Very short intro (2-3 mins! IT) on why to speak about violence and why the women’s movement strated from this. Then we split in small groups:
- Sexual violence and rape culture (EE)
- Institutional violence (IT)
- Economical violence (backup Ensemble)
- Psychological violence (D)
- Medical violence (F)

WEDNESDAY 26 (two comrades per delegation will form a commission for the party organization. Please remember to bring music on a stick, slogand for the demo and think to possible games in advance!)
Introducrion about women and body: (Laia – EE)
After introduction, split into smaller language groups to debate

THURSDAY 27 sexism in organizations and movements (F -Ensemble)
After introduction, split into samller language groups to debate

FRIDAY 28 Joint women-LGBTIQ space
Which transfeminist queer practices starting form current movements? How do intervene in current movements and how we make them welcoming for everyone? (IT)

SATURDAY 29 Balancesheet of the space
day 24 Space introduction: Why a mixed and open space? What are the goals of this questioning? (DK)

Tuesday 25 Queer and privileges: discrimination inside LGBITQA* movement (with a focus on trans, intersex, bisex and women, as subjectivities which are discriminated inside the LGBTIQ movement itself) (I)

Wednesday 26 Assimilation and how to resist (the intro will take into account of anticapitalism, stressing the fact that the queer struggle is important in a revolutionary perspective) (F-NPA)

Thursday 27 Political discussion about the party, in order to be inclusive and explain the sense to everybody (try to have the bon ton/manifesto translated in all languages useful for the discussion in delegation meetings) (EE).
Small coordination group to prepare the practical stuff for the party

Friday 28 Joint space women and LGBITQA*: which transfeminist-queer practices starting from today’s movements (I)

Saturday 29 Balance-sheet of the space and LGBITQA* Fourth International’s schools report

Permanent commissions

- Migrants and refugees
- Rise of the far right, how to fight it (check on the first day if the number of participants is sufficient)
- Feminist international campaign against machist violence (first day at women’s space we’ll decide if have it or not)
- Racialized people space

Cineforum – we will verify the technical possibility to hold it. Concerning the programme, just Billy Elliot was proposed as title. More ideas are welcome in these months.


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