Anarchist social organization
Submitted by s.nappalos on Dec 10 2017 17:21
A piece discussing debates over the role of political ideas within social movements, and the debate within anarchism over political organization applied to the current context of North American anarchism.
Prairie Struggle posters, handouts and pictures
Submitted by PrairieStruggle on Mar 27 2016 17:40
Here are a majority of all Prairie Struggle Organization's poster & handouts created during its short 3-4 year existence.
Riffraff in the libertarian milieu - Argelaga
A timely warning to the libertarians of Spain from the editors of Argelaga concerning an attempt (June 2015), instigated by certain elements in the anarchist camp sympathetic to “Platformism”, to form a citizens’ political party based on civil society slogans (“the people, “society”, and “the majority” vs. “the evil ‘elite’” or “the one percent”), transmitted via the telegraphic text-message-style communications of a “postmodern”, “upbeat” and “trendy” “lexicon”, crafted for an audience composed of “the pauperized and computer-literate middle class, students and local bureaucrats”, fodder for “reformist militantism of the trade union, municipalist, NGO or para-institutional type”.
Prairie Struggle is dead and the struggle continues
A retrospective of Prairie Struggle, an anarchist political organization from Canada that existed from 2011-2015.
The Kurdish Question: Through the lens of Anarchist Resistance in the Heart of the Ottoman Empire 1880-1923 - Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt
Submitted by AES on Dec 31 2014 18:46
CONTENT NOTE: In 2015 it came to light that one of the authors of this work, Michael Schmidt, has advocated merging anarchist and white supremacist ideas both privately under his own name and publicly under pseudonyms. We are not aware of such themes in this work but readers should be advised.
Ba Jin and the “Arshinov Platform”
Submitted by Battlescarred on Nov 11 2014 21:35
A short article on the connection of the great Chinese novelist and anarchist Ba Jin with the Organisational Platform of the Libertarian Communists
Platformism in Latin America: the Uruguayan example
Submitted by Battlescarred on Oct 26 2014 11:44
A review of a pamphlet on the Uruguyuan anarchist movement that appeared in the magazine of the Anarchist Federation, Organise! No 80, 2013
Anarchism in the rear-view mirror
A critique of anarchism by two former members of platformist groups in Quebec, We do not necessarily agree with all the points they make, but reproduce for reference.
Nestor Makhno: A Theoretician of Anarcho-Syndicalism?
A short piece reflecting on the Anarchism and Syndicalism section of the Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists by Makhno and co. Also riffing on the 19th and early 20th century anarchist workers' movement.
Fighting for the future: The necessity and possibility of national political organization for our time
This essay is an argument for moving towards national organization in the United States. It explores the limitations of political organization today, recent positive experiences, and possible ways to build on the present to push forward.
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