NB. ‘A practical guide to anarchist organisation’ is adapted from a text written a few years ago by a member of the Irish group Workers Solidarity Movement.
For absolute beginners and isolated individuals (or groups of 2 or 3)…
1) Introductory note
A common experience, particularly for young people who come to anarchism from the English-speaking world, is one of isolation. In my own case I came to anarchism through reading Homage to Catalonia and then the (very few) anarchist books I could obtain in my city. These were nearly all liberal academic histories or reprints of texts from the nineteenthth century, so for quite a while I was completely unaware that a contemporary anarchist movement even existed. It took me a year to find other individual anarchists, and a further year to discover there was actually a small anarchist group in my city. Another year passed before I took part in the formation of an organisation, but as we were very inexperienced, we ended up joining with a much older anarchist group. It was only then that we became able to undertake effective activity. I’ve written this text (with the help of others) in a way that I think would have enabled me and our initial small group to become effective much, much faster.
2) Evaluating an anarchist group
3) Setting up an anarchist group
4) Contributing to an anarchist group
5) The policy of an anarchist group
(For people with some experience of anarchist organisation)
6) Other links
