Solidarity, trauma and internal limits to struggle

During the recent and ongoing violent occupation of Palestine many of us have been drawn to or engaged in various solidarity actions. We have been trying, failing, asking, examining and learning about what solidarity might mean. At the same time, we are witnessing the violent deaths of so many. Organising within and alongside the context of violence and trauma has raised tensions and exposed internal limits. Too often, across different organising spaces and actions, collectives and radical organisations have collapsed after grappling with these limits - oftentimes around interpersonal conflict and harm. 

We would like to offer the following compilation of readings as a way to explore these tensions, as well as what a principled practice of addressing harm and conflict in struggle might look like within a shared politic and across difference. We hope that they can spark conversations within your groups and collectives.

This project was created on the stolen land of the Wurundjeri & Boon Wurrung/Bunurong peoples of the Kulin Nation. Sovereignty was never ceded.

The zine is published under Incendium Radical Library Press.

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