Dual power: Infrastructure for insurrection - GAF does Lockdown Episode 3

For this episode we get together for a podcast/livestream discussion with a friend of GAF to talk about Dual Power, a crucial area of revolutionary politics. The discussion will include the impact of new theories of mutual aid on radical ecological politics, and the implications of the rise of a new wave of radical organisers in the USA and UK. Topics covered will include: modern writing on the subject of dual power, the history of how the 20th century guerilla warfare phenomenon has influenced anti-state strategies, as well the influence of the Black Panthers, Murray Bookchin, modern mutual aid movements like Occupy Sandy and the new and wide ranging theoretical debates that started in American communist and anarchist circles over the last several years. In this presentation we will look at what Dual Power is and isn’t, it’s history and origins in revolutionary political theory, and how it is being adapted by a new wave of leftists to meet the most imposing challenges, with particula