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1936-1967: A history of Spanish anarchist youth paper 'Ruta'
Victor Garcia's brief history of the Catalan libertarian youth newspaper from its founding in the civil war to its final issue.
Where We Stand
This was an unpublished text from the late 80s. We put this brief text out, on the now extinct 'Endangered Phoenix' site, not because we think exactly like this now - but more of an example of an attitude in an earlier epoch, an epoch when, for instance, ‘Class War’ was a growing organisation. However, it was never published even in the 80s partly because the author thought it was a bit of brash bravado. But we do hold to its general attitude and spirit.
WHERE WE STAND
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The network of anarcho-syndicalists (MASA), Croatia
An introduction to MASA and its activities since its foundation in 2008.
Mreža anarhosindikalista i anarhosindikalistkinja (eng.
Resistance from the other South Africa
Neha Nimmagudda, a student from NYC, spent a few months working as a full time volunteer with the Abahlali baseMjondolo movement in South Africa. In this essay she reflects one of the movement's quarterly all night meetings in which critical issues are discussed.
The topic of this particular meeting was 'leadership'. While Abahlali has never stated that it is an anarchist movement many have drawn parallels between 'Abahlalism' and 'anarchism'. Certainly the movement considers both the state and the vanguardist left to be oppressors.
Neha Nimmagudda (2008-07-17)
No peace in the class war
Article by Swedish group Kämpa Tillsammans on class composition in Sweden and the syndicalst 'register method'.
Revolutionary perspectives today: society is a factory
An Introduction to Kämpa tillsammans!
A brief introduction to Kämpa tillsammans! (Struggle Together!), a Swedish communist group.
Kämpa tillsammans! (Struggle Together!) is a communist group who are mainly concerned with theory building. The group, founded in 1997 with members from Malmo and Gothenburg, have their roots in the extra-parliamentary left.
1919-1922: The Workers’ Opposition
A short history of a group within the Russian Communist Party that struggled against the increasing party bureaucracy and for trade union control over industry which, by 1922, had been forcibly disbanded by the party.
The Workers Opposition began to form in 1919, as a result of the policies of War Communism, which set a precedence for the domination of the Communist Party over local party branches and trade unions. During the civil war, the Workers Opposition began agitating against the lack of democracy in the Communist Party as a result of the centralising actions of the party’s bureaucracy.
Open meeting to set up a London anarchist youth network - meeting minutes
The minutes of a meeting of the organisationalist/class struggle tendency within the London Anarchist Youth group attempting to resuscitate the group, along a tighter class struggle perspective, during the decline of the Anarchist Youth Network.
Though those present no longer agree with all of the meetings conclusions, they are reproduced here for reference.
London Anarchist Youth
Minutes of meeting: 26.02.04
Present: 10 people
Reportbacks:
Feedback on history and perceived failures of the previous incarnation of LAY
Organising:
Aims of LAY decided:
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The Anarchist Youth Network (AYN), personal recollections, 2002-2004
Brief historical notes on the organisation the Anarchist Youth Network (AYN). The AYN was a loosely-organised grouping of young anarchists, supposed to be based in Britain and Ireland.
Lasting only from 2002 to 2004, it suffered many of the weaknesses common in the contemporary anarchist movement of the English speaking world.
Nine Years of the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation, 1989-1998 - Wayne Price
NEFAC's Wayne Price's interesting account and analysis of the development and decline of the North American continental anarchist federation the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation.
