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  • Lithuanian-born anarchist-communist who became a leading figure in the American anarchist movement and was sent to prison for attempting to assassinate Henry Clay Frick, the steel boss responsible for the deaths of workers in the 1892 Homestead strike.

  • Political ideology based on mutual aid, solidarity and the abolition of the state. Anarchism can be broadly divided into two camps: social anarchism (libertarian communism) or individualism.

  • Anarchist-communist organisation in Britain affiliated to the International of Anarchist Federations and publishes the magazine Organise!

  • The Anarchist Youth Network: Britain & Ireland was a short-lived loose network of young anarchists in the UK. Founded in 2002, it lasted until 2004.

  • The anarcho-syndicalism red and black flag

    Strain of social anarchism which sees the working class as the means to achieve a revolution through organising workers into revolutionary, rank and file unions. These unions would be both the instrument for the overthrow of capitalism and the administrative apparatus of a future society.

  • Taken from the Greek words an (no) and archy (rule). The name given by anarchists to a society based on the realisation of anarchist ideals. See anarchism.

    In a political context not meant as its common everyday usage as a synonym for chaos or disorder.

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  • Brighton-based annual Marxist journal with autonomist influences.

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