“Against the global war regime: popular power and collective self-determination.” This is the premise from which the third part International Congress of Communal Democracy that celebrates divendres i dissabte al Casinet d’Hostafrancs in Barcelona. Compta amb col·lectius that they intend to create alternatives to the capitalist systemthrough popular power, self-management, mutual support or direct democracy. They come from both the Catalan Countries, the Basque Country and the Spanish State, as well as from Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina or Brazil, as well as Italy or Kurdistan.
All folds are part of the International Xarxa of Communal Democracywhich confirms that ens trobem in a moment of “global war” i “global regime of war, rise of feixisme, ecological crisis, systemic crisis.” “All this global chaos that the capitalismcapitalism will resoldre fomenting the rise of feixisme i the war. “These are worrying scenarios,” he admitted. Ivan Miroco-organizer of the congress.
The object, as detailed, is visible “the international of l’esperança i la solidaritat” in this context, which also has a local reading. “The process It seems that it has ended, also the movement 15-Mi hi ha a cycle that must be reversed. We need spaces of discovery of the Catalan popular movements in clau d’esquerra, a space to organize the popular spaces at different levels,” he claims.
Among the acts stands out thepolitical act from this divendres, with the speakers vinguts d’arreu del món. It is collected in collective formats for people who are faced with complicated and diverse situations, and who aim to create these socio-political projects. “They are alternatives that resist and seek to overcome the logic of capitalism,” Miró details about the concept of communal democracy, which are the organizational forms that resist the established system.
Our espais a l’esquerra
In each of these organizations of the world’s trade, hi ha various sensitivitiestogether with political organizations, anti-capitalists, unions, cooperatives, feminists… “Ideological diversity is interesting”, admitted Miró. From most of the analyzes of the different organizations, the congress will serve to characterize the “authoritative drifts of liberal democracies”, represented by leaders such as donald trump als USA, Giorgia Meloni to Italy or Javier Milei to l’Argentina, així com Ursula Von der Leyen to the European Union.
“Calen face-to-face countriesat a time when digital social networks are dominated by the extreme and the extreme”, afegeix. It is that the organizer considers that they popular movements of querres need for these face-to-face countries to “rethink strategy cap to a new cycle and generate new organizations, at a time that seems to be completely in crisis.” “A new cycle of actions and new organizational instances must be created that will once again plant the international hope,” he insists.
For Miró, on a Catalan scale everything is about “building from the base and the careers”, and “beyond the individualist social frameworks”. I demand “to work again political debate in Catalonia “and that the speeches of the radical querra once again had a powerful altar.”
Communal democracy
The term of communal democracy It encompasses collective self-governance practices in the political, social and cultural sphere, which are based on popular power and the processes of creation of popular structures, Miró details. “Hi has many experiences on a global scale,” he claims. The person responsible is based on “different elements” of the system that governs the entire society, “and sometimes can antagonistic“.
“Hi ha la liberal democracywhich is the system through representative democracy that delegates management and sovint the monopoly of politics. “The experiences of communal democracy aim for greater sovereignty of the society to build its own self-government”, defines the person in charge of the congress. “Liberal democracy focuses on the individual city and is associated with the capitalist economy. The community proposes an alternative that could be against the state, but also from or beyond the state,” he details.
In this sense, at the congress there will be various initiatives of the world. From them common Venezuelans that have a relationship with the Venezuelan State, or others with the Kurdish democratic confederalism that proposes an autonomy that “does not exist in the state or in other state forms.” “Communal democracy has a plural relationship with the state, the debate is rich“, assumeix on this line.
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