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The Anarchist Federation (AF) is a federation of anarcho-communists in Great Britain and Ireland. It is not a political party, but a direct action, agitational and propaganda organisation. == Origins == The Federation was founded as the Anarchist Communist Federation in March 1986 by the ''Anarchist Communist Discussion Group'', which had coalesced around two anarcho-communists who had returned from France and began selling the pamphlets of the defunct ''Libertarian Communist Group'' tendency, and members of ''Syndicalist Fight''. The group aimed to provide an anarchist intervention into working class struggles such as the Miners' Strike, and was closely involved with the Anti-Poll Tax community-based campaign at the end of the 1980s and unemployed struggles through the Groundswell network of claimants' action groups. There is also a student membership, of whom many, including non-student members were involved in the series of university occupations that began in the beginning of 2009 and swept across British universities in opposition to the Gaza War as well as the 2010 Student movement against reforms in further education. It changed its name to the ''Anarchist Federation'' in the late 1990s. Unlike its French counterpart it is therefore not a true federation of anarchists but rather a faction composed of advocates of Anarchist-Communism. The Anarchist Federation places itself amongst a continually developing current of autonomous working class struggle. Important influences on the Anarchist Federation's politics include The Organisational Platform of Libertarian Communists, the (Manifesto of Libertarian Communism ), Solidarity and the anarchist communist currents within the Spanish, Russian and Ukrainian Revolutions. The ''Anarchist Federation'' continues this tradition of agitation within the workplace and community, rather than attempting to gain prominent bureaucratic positions in trade unions, local councils and other institutions, unlike a number of socialist and communist parties and groups. It promotes grassroots direct activism against the state and capitalism and is run in a horizontalist manner. Key Anarchist Federation principles include a commitment to class struggle as a method of abolishing capitalism and the state, and a rejection of the strategy of vanguardism. The Federation is affiliated with the International of Anarchist Federations. The AF have two regular publications; ''Organise!'', the twice a year theoretical journal of the organisation, and ''Resistance'', a regular free paper covering a range of topical news & events from an anarchist perspective, highlighting the widespread acts of resistance to the state and capitalism that that go unreported in the mainstream press. They also publish numerous pamphlets ranging from an 'Introduction to Anarchist Communism' to the history of libertarian class-struggle resistance to Nazism. The AF logo, which depicts two clasping hands above flames, is inspired by a salute used by anarchists during the Spanish revolution. The element of flames can be seen to refer to quotes by both Mikhail Bakunin and Buenaventura Durruti. :: "''The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.''" - Bakunin :: "''We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth. There is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. We carry a new world, here in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.''" - Durruti 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anarchist Federation (Britain and Ireland)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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