Following up on last years assembly “Anti-zionist Futures”, the upcoming assembly intends to expand the lens of our analysis—placing zionism within the tradition of imperialism; broadly exploring the history of anti-imperialist movements; navigating their limits, potentials and futures; all through the standpoint of our shared ground in Eastern Europe.


The (counter)Logistics of Queer Liberation (12h)
An open discussion and presentation responding to Lithuanian Pride

Here in Vilnius DSV Logistics has consistently supported the Pride Parade over the years through the contribution of its trucks, which are used as floats. DSV Logistics also consistently collaborates with the Israeli war machine, transporting weapons for its largest company Elbit Systems.

In the opening discussion of our Assembly we explore ways to refuse complicity in imperialism through direct action against its logistics and arms infrastructures.

Nina from Kaktus Initative will speak on direct action strategies against a Polish state-owned TNT producer, who has supplied material for the genocide in Gaza and Poland’s place in the global supply chain of weapons sold to Israel and its obligations under international law.

Together we will connect different facets of imperial violence across a complex network of producers, suppliers, and state-actors; opening the imaginary of a planetary counter-logistics network that could circulate knowledges and resources for liberation instead of profit and death.

Communal dinner (18h)
Çig Kofte and Lentil soup

Half of the World (19:30)
A reading by Yassin of a new Ghassan Kanafani translation.


Poppies Cafe (12–19h)
Join us from the morning for coffee, sandwiches and cakes

Tatreez Embroidery (12h)
Workshop with Julija

Memory Beyond Memory: Jewish Remembrance as (Anti)Imperialist Practice, (13:30)
Presentation by Luca Schmit (union socialiste Juive)

The talk will open with an exploration of how memory relates to our understanding of activism and social movements. Then I will specifically show and discuss how the Jewish Labour Bund used activist-memory (memorik) in its publications and politics, with concrete examples (ie. quotes, newspaper articles, etc), and the lessons we can learn from it as modern day Bundists. Lastly, the presentation will conclude with an overview of the limits or pitfalls that memory has for activism and Jewishness with particular attention paid to how it can be 'imperialised' (subverted) with, of course, Zionism and the State of Israel as prominent case studies. 

Imperialist War, Iranian Neo-Fascism, and the Crisis of Strategic Thought, (15h)
Presentation by Iman Ganji^*

This presentation begins from the 2025–26 imperialist war against Iran and the longer crisis of a left that has increasingly lost the capacity to think strategically. In a conjuncture shaped by Israeli and US aggression, the mediatized rise of Iranian neo-fascist forces in the diaspora, and the moral blackmail that demands every anti-imperialist speech first prove its distance from the Islamic Republic, the left is confronted not only with a political crisis but with a crisis of thought itself. The war is fought not only through bombs and missiles, but also through the regulation of perception: the fantasy that military, state, and infrastructural “targets” can be separated from the social lives embedded within them; and the psychic production of an Iranian subject invited to endorse its own destruction as liberation.

Against this conjuncture, the paper brings together two lines of inquiry: the genealogy of Iranian fascism and the strategic dialectics of Bijan Jazani. It traces how Iranian fascist movements, from their earlier entanglements with imperial powers to their contemporary neo-Pahlavist and diasporic forms, have converted national fantasy, media spectacle, and militarized desire into a politics of self-alienation. At the same time, returning to Jazani allows us to rethink the distinction between primary and principal contradictions, and to resist the left’s tendency to replace concrete analysis with inherited moral schemas.

The wager of the presentation is that the task is not to choose between anti-imperialism and emancipation, nor between opposition to authoritarian state formations and opposition to imperialist war. Rather, it is to reconstruct a strategic dialectics capable of grasping how fascism, Imperialism, state violence, and popular struggle are unevenly articulated in history. Only such a method can confront imperial aggression without becoming apologetic, and oppose fascism without surrendering to the ideological apparatuses of Empire. 

*Iman Ganji is a writer and scholar in exile with a PhD in Performance and Theatre Studies from Freie Universität Berlin. From 2004 to 2012, he lived in Tehran, where he worked as a translator, writer, and activist, co-translating works by Spinoza, Marx, Deleuze, Guattari, and Negri, among others.

Anarchists on the War in Ukraine (17h)
Communal reading and discussion of an excerpt from Dogma Collectives new publication.

Closing discussion over drinks (18h)



image. illustration of Lukiškės prison in Vilne, by Molly Crabapple