Autonomous Youth Camp

We organise extended in-person gatherings bringing together new and experienced youth organisers to learn from each other and build towards stronger and more unified social movements. 

We are youth who see the need to strengthen organising for collective liberation by bringing local groups together to be more effective, unified, and connected to each other and wider international struggles. We also aim to learn from other struggles and youth movements from around the world. We believe in autonomy, anti-imperialism, and the struggle against oppression in all its forms, including patriarchy, racism, capitalism, and the state.

Many youth organising groups are short-lived and jump from important issue to important issue which means we are not focused on laying down foundations for the long run. This forces new organisers to reinvent the wheel without having access to the experiences and knowledge from the past. We see ourselves as a continuous thread from the 2019 youth climate movements, 2021 rent strikes, recent Palestine solidarity movements and other youth movements, and aim to create a way for future movements to connect into these networks and build on collective knowledge and relationships.

We hope that the gatherings can also be a regenerative space where people can take a step back from the day-to-day urgency culture and insular focus common in our groups, taking the time for more in-depth, long-term, and bigger-picture thinking and discussions.

Our gatherings are for education and conversations - about practical skills, reflection, long-term strategy and internationalism. We also aim to facilitate a shift away from university-student-centered politics. We aim to be a space for both students and non students to explore how to organise outside systems of miseducation together.

We are all crew, expecting everyone who attends to chip in and help out. We are a youth-only organisation, ensuring our gatherings are organised by youth, for youth. The spaces we build can also be an opportunity to experiment with living in alternative ways, prioritising communality over individualism and practising democratic structures.