Social movements around the world are pioneering radical forms of care, solidarity and community. They are an antidote to capitalist alienation. The two-day Love is Resistance workshop brought together movement leaders, organisers and theorists from the global South and North. Together with workshop participants, the aim was to share experiences in the struggle for collective liberation and to learn from each other. What is the place of love in that struggle? What kind of social relationships dominate our collective values – from family to property to political power – and how can we transform them in the future? With a mixture of conversations and case studies, the workshop invited participants to enter into an exchange with activists about how they redesign the foundations of social reproduction in their movements, about solidarity economies and communal childcare, about land redistribution and healthcare provisions. Because love is resistance!

Participants: Pedro Charbel (Brazil), Renata Ávila (Guatemala), Nihal Al-Asaar (Egypt), Ofelia Fernández (Argentina), Nilüfer Koc (Kurdistan), Igor Štiks (Bosnia/Croatia/Serbia), Saša Savanović (Serbia)
Coordination: David Adler & Srećko Horvat