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The urgent tasks to undertake now\u2009\u2026\u2009revolve centrally around inventing new modes and practices of collective political organisation\u2009\u2026\u2009and the mobilisation of a wide range of new political subjects who are not afraid to imagine a different commons, demand the impossible, stage the new and confront the violence that will inevitably intensify as those who wish to maintain the present order realise that their days might be numbered. <\/p> (Swyngedouw 2014<\/a>, 134) <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This\n issue goes to press while the ongoing mobilisation in Sudan is being \nrepressed with bloodshed. As of today, this courageous act of defiance \nand radical political practice and imagination of a people that has been\n suffering the most brutal political repression calls not only for \nfurther analysis: it calls for our immediate and sustained solidarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writing\n during the crackdown on the Egyptian mobilisation in 2014, Swyngedouw \ninsisted on the importance of prioritising collective political \npractices of organisation around the question of how to sustain the \nmobilisation of new political subjects emerging from the politics of \nTahrir Square (Swyngedouw 2014<\/a>).\n Since 2011, the waves of mass mobilisations in the streets and squares \u2013\n with Egypt first and then Turkey giving way to a wave that has \ncontinued in Tunisia, Algeria and now Sudan \u2013 has signalled the \n\u2018incipient return of the political\u2019 (Ibid<\/em>.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Relearning what grassroots politics outside and beyond parties is about is an enormous task. On our website Roape.net, Janet Bujra introduced the film about the Connections workshops held across Africa in 2017\u20132018 (Bujra 2019<\/a>). Writing about these unusual gatherings of left activists and intellectuals and the debates on radical… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The urgent tasks to undertake now\u2009\u2026\u2009revolve centrally around inventing new modes and practices of collective political organisation\u2009\u2026\u2009and the mobilisation of a wide range of new political subjects who are not afraid to imagine a different commons, demand the impossible, stage the new and confront the violence that will inevitably intensify as those who wish to… <\/p>\n

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