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Organizing in Johannesburg since 2003, rooted in South African anarchist collectives from the early 1990s. Platformist, invitation-based, built on union work and anti-privatization campaigns. Publishes hundreds of anarchist titles free online.

https://www.radical-guide.com/listing/zabalaza-anarchist-communist-front/

#Anarchism #SouthAfrica #Platformism

Autonomies: **Tomás Ibáñez: Anarchisms at the crossroads**

https://autonomies.org/2026/07/tomas-ibanez-anarchisms-at-the-crossroads/

Redes Libertarias (06/06/2026) Tomás Ibáñez’s essay, “Anarchism at the crossroads”, is an intervention in a debate in the Spanish anarchist milieu, but the controversy is neither uniquely Spanish nor novel. What kind of organisation does anarchist politics call for? Must … Continue reading →

#Commentary #Anarchism #Especifismo #Platformism #TomsIbez

https://libcom.org/article/breaking-out-subcultures-need-organisation-and-strategy

Excellent read on problems currently being faced in the anarchist movement
#especifismo #platformism #anarchism #anarchist #anarchocommunism #socialism

"It is the nature of #platformism that once it emerges as a top-level stack layer, it captures the owners, who then go down with it.
#Commonsism too, is doomed in the form we are familiar with, as is #blogospherism, the specific flavor I’ve grown somewhat attached to. But…unlike platformism, commonsism doesn’t seem to be salting the earth it is dying on. There’s regenerative potential that’s coming back into circulation."

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2023/11/02/the-future-of-the-blogosphere/

Our Friendly Critique of Bookchin's Politics has now been posted to our substack!!! Check it out if you want to see where we agree and disagree with Bookchin and more importantly how to potentially upgrade overall social ecological, communalist, and libertarian socialist praxis!!!

"Even though this essay has been rooted in a critical appraisal of Bookchin’s politics, this essay has also been aiming to do something more: that is to sketch out how to potentially upgrade social ecological praxis through a critical appraisal of Bookchin’s politics. Social ecology and communalism should be retained because their most essential and salient features hold true. And yet, social ecology and communalism can be made more coherent. Bookchin’s written and spoken philosophy is a closed book of sorts, but social ecology and communalism are living praxes that are internally differentiated and incomplete. First and foremost, the primary way that both social ecology and communalism can be made more coherent is through retaining their most essential features as part of praxis as they develop (including horizontality, direct democracy, mutual aid, direct action, communal self-governance, confederalism, oppositional politics, reconstructive politics, and an understanding of ecological problems as having their roots in social problems of hierarchy, etc.). Such a politics would keep a communalist core through the development of communal assemblies and confederations thereof as mass organizations for functions of mutual aid and direct action towards dual power and revolution. Such communal assemblies and federations thereof would be both counterpowers to capitalism and the state and help meet needs of people in self-managed ways– while prefiguring the new world based on self-management on every scale in the shell of the old. Aside from retaining their most essential features, social ecology and communalism can be made more coherent by subtracting Bookchin’s electoral approach to politics. Additionally, social ecology and communalism can use a reintegration of syndicalism as part of a revolutionary social movement ecosystem in such a way where syndicalism is viewed as a means (not as an end or as THE means)– and one of multiple means to be strategically emphasized more or less depending on conditions. Such a reintegration of syndicalism into overall social ecological praxis does not and should not overly reduce modes of oppositional politics to syndicalism (or otherwise underemphasize communalist means and ends). A fleshed out strategy involving relations of ideologically specific groups to social movements and popular organizations can further communalist goals. And communalism can further the goals of ideologically specific libertarian communist groups through creation of and social insertion within communal assemblies as direct action and mutual aid organs (in such a way that still retains an “organizational pluralism” of sorts via social insertion in community, union, student spheres and beyond). Such a sublation of libertarian communism, communalism, syndicalism, and ways ideologically specific libertarian communist groups can interface with mass movements can potentially move social ecological praxis forward. "

https://usufructcollective.substack.com/p/a-friendly-critique-of-bookchins

#anarchism #socialism #communism #communalism #commons #syndicalism #organization #electoralism #platformism #especifismo

Our essay Communalism and Especifismo is now on our substack!

"The two praxes combine through social insertion in relation to community assemblies: both through starting communal assemblies and helping to develop already existing community associations into ones that use a cluster of liberatory practices. Additionally such communalist social insertion means developing community assemblies within or connected to social movements to help achieve the goals of social movements when that makes sense in specific contexts."

https://usufructcollective.substack.com/p/communalism-and-especifismo

#anarchism #socialism #communism #communalism #municipalism #assemblies #commons #especifismo #libertarianism #platformism #organization

Nestor #Makhno was a 19th Century #Ukrainian revolutionary who advocated an approach to #anarchism that is based on organized #federalism, which works by independent groups of people embracing a shared sense of duty and shared responsibility, which is sometimes called #platformism. It constitutes a powerful model that helped establish the foundation of Ukrainian independence from Russian domination, but it can also be used to empower any oppressed or politically silenced class.

Ireland: A farewell to the Workers Solidarity Movement
After 37 years the WSM has announced that it intends to disband, shutting down Ireland's best-known anarchist organisation.

In a statement, the group noted:

"While we recognise the WSM’s many achievements over the years and while we are each committed to continuing the cause
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2021/12/09/ireland-a-farewell-to-the-workers-solidarity-movement/
#Anarchism #Ireland #platformism #WorkersSolidarityMovement