We believe that, if only to wage the 'battle of ideas', anarchist organizations are necessary. We reject the vision which reduces the idea of revolution to the authoritarian seizure of power by a centralized party which is believed to be acting in the name of the masses. We know that this vision has led to bloody dictatorships and has nothing to do with real socialism.
NEFAC is not a party, or a self-proclaimed vanguard, and we do not see ourselves as an organization that will "lead" the anarchist movement, never mind "lead" the working class to social emancipation. We recognize that a successful revolution can only be carried out directly by the working class. However, we believe this must be preceded by organizations able to radicalize mass movements and popular struggles, combat authoritarian and reformist tendencies, act as a forum where ideas and experiences between militants can be discussed, and provide a vehicle for the maximum political impact of anarcho-communist ideas within the working class.
In NEFAC we think that this activity can be roughly divided into three different areas: study and theoretical development, anarchist agitation and propaganda, and intervention in the class struggle.
I'd like to meet:
Platformists, anarchist-communists, syndicalists, class war feminists, and pissed off working class people from the Northeast region of US and Canada... class reductionists, workerists, and people with an unhealthy organizational fetish... anarchists with bad attitudes that don't get on well with most other anarchists.
If anyone is really interested in NEFAC, check out our website:
http://www.nefac.net
Music:
Anything that works as a soundtrack for riots, strikes, barricade fighting, or beating down nazis... hip-hop, punk, oi!, metal, gritty folk, whatever... oh yeah, and obviously 'A Las Barricadas' on endless loop too...
Television:
Who has time for television? There's a fucked up system to bring down out there! ... er, okay, maybe I catch a few A-Team re-runs now and again.
Books:
Organizational Platform of Libertarian Communists (Dielo Trouda); The Tyranny of Structurelessness (Jo Freeman); Facing The Enemy (Alexandre Skirda); Anarchy's Cossack (Alexandre Skirda); Freedom, Equality and Solidarity (Lucy Parsons); Organizing Communities (Tom Knoche); Statism and Anarchy (Mikhail Bakunin); Conquest of Bread (Peter Kropotkin); The Struggle Against the State (Nestor Makhno); The Troublemakers Handbook (Labor Notes); Free Women of Spain (Martha Acklesberg); Dynamite: A Century of Class Violence in America (Louis Adamic); Non-Market Socialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century (Maximilien Rubel)
