15 November 2025, 18:00 - 21:00
The Urgent Task of Organising: on Internationalism
Presentation, collective reading and discussion
Assembling in Resistance with the Kenyan Organic Intellectuals
On the 15th of November we will delve into these questions together with the Kenyan Organic Intellectuals, community organisers and activists part of Nairobi’s Mathare Social Justice Center. As we learn and exchange with each other our tools of organizing in our communities, we deepen the relationships among us and manifest our struggle as an interconnected one. The spirit of Internationalism today is vital and urgent, when we see the War waged by power against people and planet in this high stage of capitalism and imperialism. Together with our comrades, we will discuss how an internationalist struggle can unfold today and how our movements can stay connected and united beyond distances.
About the Organic Intellectuals
The Organic Intellectuals Network is a collective of writer-activists, organizers, and researchers rooted in Kenya’s social movements. Inspired by the ideas of Antonio Gramsci, we cultivate critical thought, lived experience, and grassroots struggle as legitimate forms of knowledge and resistance. The network provides a platform for continuous reflection, dialogue, and coordination. It connects those who are thinking and acting within grassroots communities with those in other progressive platforms and organizations. In doing so, it aims to sharpen political clarity, amplify marginalized voices, and provide strategic direction in the ongoing struggles against exploitation, oppression, and imperialism.
Learn more:
www.organicintellectualsnetwork.org/#about
matharesocialjustice.org
About Assembling in Resistance
Assembling in Resistance is a programmatic line organized by artist and organizer Iliada Charalambous. During these gatherings, participants learn together about forms of coming together in and for resistance by reading collectively with and about diverse resistance movements, alternative forms of (self)governance and assembling.
How can we apply what we learn in the context of Basecamp?
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