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Declaration of an external tendency of the iSt

Declaration of an external tendency of the iSt

October 1982 Jim: “…either the party is as you said it is, filled with the fundamental contradiction of actually having a bureaucratic, abusive, personalist cult-leadership while proclaiming itself to be for socialist democracy. Karen:...

Introduction

Introduction

In October 2011 Josh D., an IBT supporter in Toronto, received an email from an anarchist comrade asking if we were aware of a January 2006 piece entitled, “Why an Anarchist Organization is Needed…...

In Defense of Leninism

In Defense of Leninism

Anarchist Organization and Vanguardism The question of what, if any, type of revolutionary organization is necessary has always been a thorny one for anarchists. The most hard-core “organizational” anarchist trend is “Platformism,” which takes...

Conversation With An Anarchist

Conversation With An Anarchist

Democracy, Authoritarianism & Revolution 1917 No.29 (1917): The Platformists dismissed those who took individual autonomy to extremes with the observation that a serious revolutionary organization can only function on the basis of majority rule....