“Those of us who have spent most of our political lives in the streets need to engage more with theory, and we need to do so with the most open and critical minds we can muster. We need to bring our experiences and reflections to the minds of all of the newly radicalizing or older but reinvigorated radicals for a project centering around popular power, and foster a healthy environment of critical thought that creates a space for feminism to Bolivarianism and Pan-Africanism, while figuring out how to pull liberalism out of these frameworks. And we need to grapple with the dialectic of spontaneity and organization, figuring out how far left movements that have become incredibly decentralized and autonomous can find an interplay with modes of organization that allow the far left to be effective, expanding, and long-term, rather than falling into sectarian dogmas that lose the relevancy that is created in fits and starts.”

chisparoja:

A lot has changed on Kasama. We’ve concieved of this new site as a hub upon where new generations of revolutionaries can mutually search for our own uncharted course. That means it features both polemical content for study and struggle representing a range of politics, and it features a networking capacity to allow those conversations to become horizontal and far reaching. We’ve also designed many of the features on this site with a culture of revolutionary organizing in mind, and we hope that this platform can be used for study groups, networking, organizing projects, and more.

Navigating the new site

To begin with, the homepage is now known as Kasama Main. It will serve as the central point where key pieces appear for discussion. 

Under the projects tab, you’ll find each of the media projects of Kasama: Revolution in South Asia, Winter Has its End, and Khukuri Theory. We’re working on adding blogs for local collectives as well. We’ll also be re-pointing the domain names of those sites so that you’ll be able to use them to access those sections of the site (ie. winterends.net to access the new Winter has its End on Kasama).

You can also use the “Topics” menu to browse all of the content on the site by topic.

Open Threads has been added as an open blogging platform. Anyone who registers an account can submit blog posts to this section. We’ll also be promoting the best of the posts from this section to the Kasama Main for discussion.

Kasama Social is a new social network platform built into the site. It allows users to create a profile, chat with each other in real-time (one on one, or create a chatroom for meetings, study, or just to hang out). It also allows for the creation of groups, which can be used for focused study of specific topics, meetings, etc.

 The old site can also still be found at archive.kasamaproject.org.

Submitting articles

You can submit articles either by publishing the article to the Open Threads section, or by using the Contact form located in the site menu.

Security practices

We’d like to think that because this platform is hosted by an organization of revolutionaries (rather than a site like Facebook), that people’s profiles and private communications are much more secure here. That might be marginally true.

But regardless: we should assume that the state has access to all of the communications that take place here. Don’t add a picture of yourself to your profile unless you’ve made a conscious decision to be a public person. And please, use a fake name.

What else?

There’s still a lot of bugs in this site. Please let us know when you find them. You can let us know in the comments down below, or send us a message using the Contact form.

You may notice the old translations tab has disappeared, and so have the reading clusters. That is because both were outdated, and we are developing a much better system for both (including a better way to handle multi-language content, and developing a Spanish version of the site, etc.). In the meantime, you can still find the old versions on the Kasama Archive.

SO EXCITING

A panel of revolutionary speakers gathered on August 12 at the Everything for Everyone Festival. The engagement was significant — both in its unities and diversity. The talks confronted a key issue for communist regroupment and action: How do we build a revolutionary movement today in the belly of this beast?

Let’s engage this discussion — and deepen our common purpose.

The audio of each talk is presented here in YouTube and MP3 format — in the order that they spoke at the E4E plenum.

The speakers are:

• Mike Ely, Kasama Project
• Geoff Mc, formerly with Bring the Ruckus
• Shemon Salam, East Coast Renegades, formerly with Unity and Struggle
• Kali Akuno, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
• Sopiko Japaridze, Take Back the Block, Atlanta