Old-fashioned toolbox

Reactivating know-how with a communalist perspective

In a forgotten workshop, covered in dust and history, lies an old toolbox. Inside, time-worn tools, fashioned by generations of craftsmen, farmers and builders, always sharp, always ready for use. What we propose here is to open this box, reveal its contents and discover or rediscover this know-how that we thought was relegated to the past, but whose relevance is more vivid than ever.

Here you will find a collection of guides, practical information sheets and manifestos to help you relearn how to do things for ourselves, to organize ourselves without hierarchy, to create and maintain common resources, to self-manage our resources and our spaces, to nurture our interactions between humans and other-than-humans. All these tools can be put back into service to build a world free from capitalism and authoritarian powers such as state institutions, a world based on mutual aid, direct democracy, non-hierarchy, libertarian ecology, the ethics of reciprocity, moral economy and the regeneration of ecosystems.

This box is not a museum, but a living workshop. Its tools are made to be grasped, adapted and passed on. Whether you want to create a neighborhood assembly, revive autonomous artisanal production, experiment with sustainable agricultural practices or imagine new forms of collective life, you will find keys, reference points and experiences to share.

Take, use and add your own tools. Because it is by getting down to work that we will bring about a communalist future, rooted in the knowledge of the past and reaching out towards new possibilities.

To your tools, compañeros & compañeras!