NEFAC
Articles by or about Platformist anarchist group based in Canada and the US, the North Eastern Federation of Anarchist-Communists (NEFAC)
Especifismo: The anarchist praxis of building popular movements and revolutionary organization in South America by Adam Weaver
The theory and history of Especifismo explained and elaborated on and its similarities and differences with Platformism.
Within the broad anarchist movement, we stand in the tradition advocating the need for an organized
and disciplined anarchist political organization The "Alliance" in the First International was an early
example of this model, but it was one of many such forces. In 1926, Nestor Makhno, Peter Arshinov
and others restated this approach in the classic "Organizational Platform of the Libertarian
National Struggle And Class Struggle In Puerto Rico: Lessons for Anarchists by Mike Staudenmaier
A history of national and class struggles in Puerto Rico, from the time of the Spanish colonizers to the Nationalist uprisings and armed clandestine groups until the recent lack of radicalism. We do not agree with this article but reproduce it for reference.
In the past 150 years, assertions of national identity and class identity have transformed the world in which we live, changing the self-understanding, motivations, and actions of billions of human beings.
The Social Question: Latin American Anarchism and “Social Insertion” - Michael Schmidt
Latin American anarchist organizations, especifismo and involvement in mass movements
The most crucial issue facing the global anarchist movement today is not only how to win the battle for the leadership of ideas among the anti-capitalist movement, but how to ensure that direct action, mutual aid, collective decision-making, horizontal networks, and other principles of anarchist organising become the living practices of the social movements.
Revolutionary Anarchism And The Anti-Globalization Movement
In the wake of the Seattle riots of 1999, Lucien van der Walt explains how he thinks anarchists should relate to the burgeoning anti-globalisation movement.t
Revolutionary Anarchism and the Anti-Globalization Movement
by Lucien van der Walt (Bikisha Media Collective)
[originally printed in The Northeastern Anarchist #1]
“The Idea That Refuses To Die”
Anti-war statement from Antithesis (NYC-NEFAC)
Leaflet against the Iraq war written by the Antithesis collective (NYC-NEFAC) and distributed at an anti-war rally in New York City on October 27th.
Workers, not politicians, will end this war
Build Our Solidarity, Not Their Elections
Precarious and pissed off: Lessons from the Montpelier Downtown Workers' Union, 2003-2005
An account and analysis of the Vermont Workers' Center's innovative but ultimately failed attempt to set up a geographically-based union in the state's capital.
By Sean West
Beginnings and Endings
Organizing for class struggle at UPS - Uprise!
An article by Nicolas Phebus of the Collectif Anarchiste La Nuit (NEFAC-Quebec City) about the revolutionary workplace group Uprise! at delivery firm UPS while it was still active in 2002.
December 2002
The Demise Of Love & Rage: What Happened? - NEFAC
An account of the development and dissolution of the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation by WEB from NEFAC's Open City Collective.
While interesting from a historical point of view, we disagree very strongly with some parts of the article, in particular the section on national liberation, which amonst other things states: "L&R's support for [national liberation] struggles represented a real advance in the anarchist movement."
The Demise of Love & Rage: What Happened?
by WEB, Open City Collective (NEFAC-NYC)
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.
1980: The Kwangju uprising
The history of the week-long uprising of the South Korean town of Kwangju against the regime of the West-backed dictator General Chun Doo-Hwan.
Though it was bloodily suppressed it helped ignite a chain of similar rebellions across Asia, winning people many democratic rights.
