Sectarianism aside (to a degree), how are the orgs you work with engaging with neighboring leftist and progressive organizations in your area? Zooming out, how are they working with international comrades?

Obviously the “western” left has some wild issues with sectarianism, how much does that impact collaboration in your org / geographic area? I’d really love to see a more concerted effort to get organizations collaborating, even if in the short term we don’t have a Comintern per se. Its kinda bizarre how little cross collaboration we see so there is so much recreating the wheel across many orgs, and it feels like such a waste of time, energy, and labor in general.

Orgs don’t need to agree on tactics, but it would be nice to see some rough merging together of strategies. nothing concrete or mandated necessarily, but something where established orgs can share their experience, newly budding orgs can learn more quickly from their comrades, materials and resources can be shared to a degree, etc.

  • starkillerfish [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    vor 23 Tagen

    in Europe we have the part of the european left. Theres also some umbrella orgs like the progressive international or the international peoples assembly. on a local scale we participate in coalitions and fronts based on topic, eg. palestine. theres actually a lot of collaboration and cross pollination (so to speak) happening in europe at the moment.

    • hungrybread [comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      1·
      vor 23 Tagen

      Thats great to hear! We have some local coalitions but ime the burden of the work tends to fall on individual orgs or organizers. How do coalitions in your area collaborate? Is it mostly for public facing things, or do y’all have other ways that you work together?

      • starkillerfish [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        vor 23 Tagen

        We have some local coalitions but ime the burden of the work tends to fall on individual orgs or organizers.

        also 100% the case here. we have public facing events but theres way more behind the scenes work that includes: developing common demands, discussing issues in different sectors/countries, sharing resources and tools. coalitions are mainly important to get various powerful orgs (primarily unions) on board with concrete demands (like embargo on israel). usually these bigger orgs would not be interested in associating themselves with radical communist / anti imperialist groups, but through coalitions you can pull them to your side and have significant victories.