As 2022 comes to an end we celebrate the founding of our organisation. In just 4
months we have come together and formed an amazing network which while small hasproduced a lot of articles, 2 pamphlets as well as our newsletter Rebel Rose. Wehave attended demo's, pickets and held our founding conference (in December2022): ---- Below is a report of our founding conference and the subsequent Aimsand Principles (for our full constitution please see the associated page). ----Here is to growing and carrying on our revolutionary role. ---- AnarCom NetworkFounding Conference ---- The outbreak of war in the nuclear capitalistheartlands; the climate catastrophes of the last year; the unfolding consequentbarbarism of total hunger and destruction, and the resurgent global struggle ofour class has added urgency to our challenges as revolutionists.Last summer, a group of us started discussions on how a new network could bettercontribute to the wave of resistance we as workers were already involved in. Fromthis came the idea of the AnarCom Network and our discussions to develop it.Unfortunately delayed due to climate and righteously reconfigured due tostriker's militancy, the conference's inaugural meeting to establish it tookplace online on December 18th, 2022.Our aim was to create a structurally flexible network around a concise andcoherent set of agreed revolutionary principles we would define as AnarchistCommunist.A flexible network to enable comrades from other traditions, local groups andnon-aligned to manage their route to engagement with us.Coherent because lessons from centuries of revolutionary class struggle are notopen to endless debate or unlearning with fleeting fads or expedience.Anarchist Communist because our consensus lies firmly within this tradition whilerecognising members bring their own rich experience from the traditions of otheranarchist movements, council, left and libertarian communism.Our aims and principles were formulated and discussed ahead of the conferenceand unanimously ratified at it.Aims and Principles:1. We are committed to the class struggle and liberation through our owncollective action and organisation.2. It follows that we reject the state, political parties and leaders of everypersuasion. All are the source of our organised repression and subjugation.3. We therefore oppose parliamentary democracy and the sham of elections as adeliberate deception to paralyse and subdue working class choice and action. Theidea that the ballot box makes us equal, that the banker and the beggar somehowshare power in the voting booth is a spectacular deception.4. It follows that in refusing hierarchy and power, we reject the god concept andreligion. While hope, faith and spirituality are humanistic qualities, theirorganised manipulation is not. We seek a truly human community free fromdelusion or fantasy.5. We recognise the importance of the trade union movement in defending workingpeople whilst acknowledging their inability to be the organisations capable ofridding society of the scourge of capitalism. It follows that we are opposed tothe action-limiting role of trade unionism and its Labour establishment.6. The capitalist class divides and exploits us internationally. Consequently,we must struggle for its overthrow through resistance and solidarity across theglobe. It follows that we reject illusory ‘national' solutions and the conceptof national liberation.7. We refuse to play along with reformism, cross class alliances, fronts andcollaboration that seek ultimately to divide our class and dilute our struggle.8. We do not shy away from confrontation and support the right of working peopleto defend themselves. We also know that individual acts of violence- under anybanner - cannot destroy the social relationship we fight against; capitalism. Thefight against capitalism and for a liberated society is founded on organisation,education and agitation.9. Our struggle is both practical and urgent. The generation that may witnessour extinction is probably here. We face a binary choice of capitalism's waragainst us in all its forms, or its revolutionary abolition. War or Revolution!10. We are revolutionary internationalists. We reject sectarianism and work forprincipled cooperation with other class struggle revolutionary activists, groupsand Internationals at home and abroad.https://anarcomuk.uk/articles/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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