Imagine nine hundred and forty people sharing practices and theories in a truly horizontal manner. Imagine that all are participants in anti-capitalist struggles representing more than ten countries. Now imagine that all consider themselves and their practices autonomist. ... Enero Autonomo Argentina ...

Imagine nine hundred and forty people sharing practices and theories in a truly horizontal manner. Imagine that all are participants in anti-capitalist struggles representing more than ten countries. Now imagine that all consider themselves and their practices autonomist. All are gathered to share in the love and passion of changing the world from a base of direct democracy and horizontalism. Imagine women and men, Indigenous and European, young and old. Imagine hundreds organized in Unemployed Workers Movements (MTDs) from Patagonia, Buenos Aires, and Salta, in neighborhood assemblies from Buenos Aires to Mendoza, in indigenous movements of Mapuche in the South of Argentina and Chile to Guarini in the North of Argentina, together with a myriad of autonomist collectives from around the globe, including Mujeres Creando (Women Creating) from Bolivia and the Landless Peasants Movement (MST) in Brazil. Imagine all of this and so much more …. You are now in the Ronda de Pensamiento Autonomo (Gathering of Autonomous Thinking), in Roca Negra, Argentina, otherwise known as Enerno Autonomo (Autonomous January).

At this time last year, Arundhati Roy closed the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, with her vision that “another world is not only possible, she is on her way … if we listen very carefully, we can hear her breathing.