December marks the 1st anniversary of our formal constitution as the
AnarCom Network, an organisation of internationalist revolutionaryclass-struggle anarchist-communists. ---- Despite having been indiscussion and doing some joint work with numerous individuals sinceAugust 2022, we took several months to get to what we felt was afundamental agreement on organisational aims and principles. ---- Ourgoal was to create a structurally flexible network around a concise andcoherent set of agreed revolutionary positions we would define asAnarchist Communist.A flexible network to enable comrades from other traditions, localgroups and non-aligned, to manage their route to engagement with us.Coherent because lessons from centuries of revolutionary class struggleare not open to endless debate or unlearning with fleeting fads orexpedience.Anarchist Communist because our consensus lies firmly within thistradition while recognising members bring their own rich experience fromthe traditions of other anarchist movements, council, left andlibertarian communism.We continue to argue that a new, if historically familiar, tendency isemerging - an internationalist revolutionary class struggle realignment,as a response to the reality of war and its existential threat.Our response is to share our struggles in solidarity with our class,develop and share our analysis with like-minded class militants andcontinue building good relationships with revolutionary internationalists.War will not cease without it.We are not academics nor researchers but are a dispersed assembly ofpredominantly veteran working-class militants from a range of traditionsand none.Our activity is within our class, not outside it, and develops ouranalysis in real time. We are delighted to say in consequence we havehad a busy first year!As activists in our own Unions, communities, workplaces and networks, wehave organised, discussed and shared our perspectives.In our own localities throughout the last strike wave, we have been onmarches, to meetings and demonstrations. We have attended picket linesas strikers or in solidarity primarily in post, rail, health or education.In the process producing a range of resources including banners, badgesand stickers to share and engage the wider struggles of our class.We have been to May Day rallies and participated in solidarity actionsparticularly against the oppression of workers and comrades on trial inFrance.In ideas and communication, we have produced 5 issues of our magazineRebel Rose, 3 leaflets and 3 pamphlets: on the recent strikes, againstterrorism, and against bloodletting of the current wars (another will beout before the years end).We have distributed our resources on the streets, demos and at 6 radicaland anarchist bookfairs across the UK.Internationally we have developed a good range of contacts andconnections, particularly in France, Central and Eastern Europe. As partof this we have attended 2 internationalist gatherings in Switzerlandand the Black Sea coast, focusing on realignment of forces of the basisof No War but the Class War!We have been particularly busy developing our presence across socialmedia and on our website, posting around 60 of our own articles and anequal number of contributions from comrades and contacts at home and abroad.Many of our articles have been widely shared and translated into half adozen other languages.Additionally, we have coordinated an internationalist statement againstthe Russia-Ukraine war with several NWBTCW projects amongst our Europeancomrades.We continue energetically to contribute to internationalist oppositionto capitalist wars and have written extensively on events currentlytaking place in Middle East.All of this is now clearly a matter of public record and available tosee through our webpage and other posting sites. Including our newcontemporary in-house memes for regular observation and commentary.We are however still a small group spread across the length of theseislands, with all the limitations that inevitably imposes. Despite this,we celebrate what we have achieved in our first year and look forward tothe next.To those who have come to see us; communicated with us and shared theirstruggles with us, we say thank you!To our class we say strength through solidarity!To our critics we say welcome to the debate, engage with us.To our fellow revolutionists, we say love and comradeship. To thecynics, detractors and enemies of our class, we never expected you to beon our sideBy the Anarchist Communist Networkhttps://anarcomuk.uk/2023/11/27/class-report-23/_________________________________________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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