• “There is no trickle down liberation.”

    If we take that to be true, then our freedom, all together, will only happen if those at the bottom get free. 

    “Those at the bottom” here refers to the people who are the primary targets of genocide and exploitation, for any given nation or occupied territory. 

    Who it's not:

    • It’s not the people according to the Israeli kibbutz model. This is where Zionists practice a “socialist” sharing economy in community, while living in houses stolen from Palestinians, and exploiting migrant workers. When applying socialist models to a settler occupation, liberation and justice for the colonized is not the naturally-occurring result. 
    • Similarly, it’s not organizing with settlers for free healthcare and unions (while denying land rights to Indigenous peoples) on stolen land anywhere else either. 
    • And it’s definitely not implementing “European socialism” without the immediate and unconditional prioritization of ending extractivist economies in Africa and in all the current and former colonies, and paying reparations as part of an extensive criminal justice case against European countries, spanning centuries of global theft, extortion and genocide. 
  • It’s justice for the colonized first, for those made most vulnerable by global colonialism. Everything stems from this.

    And for everyone to get free, we need everyone’s help, including yours. 

    For those who come from an imperial nation state, like any European colonial power, and for those who come from an occupation like so-called Australia or the US, the task at hand is to identify the cultures or groups whose exploitation actually constitutes your continuing existence. Then the task is to discover how to serve the cause of liberation with those groups, in collaboration with people who are committed to collective liberation, such that your service provides verifiable material benefit towards the cause. Even if (and especially if) it is directly at odds with the benefits that you might reap from their exploitation. This is part of what some people call revolutionary defeatism. But it also requires a staunch opposition to propping up any form of continued colonial governance.