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In terms of projects, I think the important thing is to free ourselves as much as possible from being under the control of the state and capital. The more we are also able to reconnect to other people, lifeforms and spaces as well, the better. The important questions then become strategic or tactical: how to sustainably survive without either being crushed by these big systems or drawn back in. Historically this has been done a lot in terms of urban projects: squatting, co-ops, social centers, free parties, skipping, etc. Today these zones seem to be being crushed or recuperated through sheer force of police numbers and policing technologies. So I'm encouraging people to look to more remote locations as having potential for regrouping and reducing the grip of these forces. Although there's also cases of rural occupations being crushed, it's been logistically harder for the pigs and the police occupation is usually more temporary. Without naming names in case pigs are watching, I know a few cases of longstanding rural projects which haven't suffered much repression. The rural zones in the global South also seem largely uncontrollable, the US in Afghanistan was able to capture the cities but lost most of the countryside and Latin American land movements are also very effective. As well as the obvious example of the Zapatistas, the MST has huge numbers on squatted farms and there are large areas of Colombia which are outside government control, and the Bolivian peasants can pretty much shut the country down at will. The Mapuche suffer a lot of repression but it's targeted at community leaders, people hardly ever get caught doing stuff like burning down timber plantations. In a lot of African countries, the rural areas are left to themselves aside from clientelist networks and punitive raids. The Niger Delta is a good example, the oil companies were pretty much pushed out by a mix of insurgency and protest. Ditto most of Somalia, DRC, etc; also see Graeber on Madagascar. Self-supporting local communities and guerrilla groups flourish in these areas. There's no anarchism so far, rather it's Islamists, ethnonationalists and wannabe politicians drawing on local discontent, and the level of violence is sometimes extreme, but the potential is there for autonomous zones in future. I could imagine something like an anarchist Long March or politicization of existing communities on the Latin American model, leading to a swathe of de facto stateless territories. Though as I've said before, race then becomes a significant hurdle and so does the risk of violence. In Europe and America at present I think the best thing is to create local nodes then try to network these outside of the major structures.