My introduction

[Terror]

Hello revleft, I decided to register an account here after some years of lurking. I'm a 22 year old guy from Sweden, and I've been active in the so called autonomous left for a couple of years.

My political ideas are mostly in line with the "councilist" tendency here in Sweden, but I'm not all that interested in theoretical positioning within the left. Since the left in my area is very small, the need for cooperation between the different tendencies outweighs the need for "building" one's own organisation. Because of this, there's a somewhat close relationship between the local marxist-leninist party, the local autonomists, the anarchists/syndicalists, and even the youth organisation of the reformist socialist party (the Left Party/Vänsterpartiet).

I've been mostly concerned with dealing with the local fascists during my active years, but I've also been trying to expand the left in my area (antifascism has been a part of this though). And to some extent, we have been succesful. There was a point when the radical left in my city consisted of me and a newly recruited comrade, luckily this is not the case today.

[Q]

Welcome :)

If you have political questions, you can ask them in the Learning forum. That's why it's there after all!

If you have questions about your account, don't hesitate to send me a PM or ask here.

How does this cooperation work in practice? Are you focusing merely on 'practical' work, like the Trotskyist 'united front' idea, or do you also focus on programme and strategy? If the latter, have there been unity talks of any kind?

[Sasha]

Welcome! Always good to have more autonomen and antifascists here.. :)

[Terror]

How does this cooperation work in practice? Are you focusing merely on 'practical' work, like the Trotskyist 'united front' idea, or do you also focus on programme and strategy? If the latter, have there been unity talks of any kind?

The focus is on practical work, and the cooperation between the groups are strictly informal. The composition of the local, radical left have resulted in that there is no competition between the different groups, which allows cooperation in practical matters.

This kind of relationship have grown out of the common insight that the revolutionary socialist movement is weak, and that we need to rally around the most basic principles and methods of revolutionary socialism in order to survive, and hopefully, thrive.

[The Idler]

Autonomism, cool.