WORLD WORLDWIDE TURKEY - news journal UPDATE - (en) Turkey, Yeryuzu Postasi: Why Should Anarchists Participate in March Demonstrations? - Gorthim Mar 30, 2025 (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 We are sharing the article published on the Radical Perspectives

website. ---- Should anarchists participate in the 2025 March
demonstrations that are based on parliamentary demands and are not
socialist? I will start writing about this subject with some concepts
that have been discussed recently in anarchist organization theories.
---- Since I have neither the time nor the experience to write something
like this, I will proceed with quotes from the "Basic Concepts of
Specific Anarchist Organization" trilogy in the Earth Post. The places I
quoted are from those texts and the links are at the end.
Especifismo
Especifismo emerged as a result of the problems and self-criticisms of
anarchist practice in South America, which defines itself as a successor
to the Platformist tradition. What is important here is not the views of
platformism, but what especifismo adds to it: the systematization of
anarchists' relations with mass movements

I find it pointless to discuss platformism at the moment because we do
not have an organization in our country. Organization in an
institutional sense does not come out of the blue. We have to focus on
practice. Let's start with the concepts:

Social inclusion and capturing the social vector
Social Vector
"The social vector conceptualizes the relationship of anarchism with the
popular movements that it has an impact on or wants to have an impact on
(Federação Anarquista do Rio de Janeiro, 2008). This relationship is
dialectical. As it affects the masses, anarchism is further articulated
and developed in relation to mass struggles. Historically, the key
social vector of anarchism was the workers' movement, which gave the
anarchist ideology certain characteristics. It can be said that after
the Russian Revolution, the Spanish Civil War and the struggle against
fascism, anarchism has largely lost its once important social vector."

Therefore, anarchists should be present and influential in popular
movements, not because they advocate for the people to liberate
themselves, but because they advocate for the people to liberate
themselves. Looking at the practices through which anarchism has been
strengthened throughout history, we can say the following: if we show
ourselves within social movements and try to strengthen them, rather
than as 4-5 people who keep protesting, anarchism grows.

Social insertion
Social insertion means the participation of anarchists in the daily
struggles of the oppressed. Examples include participation in unions,
civil society, neighborhood committees, and student organizations. In
our case, it is a reaction to an authoritarian government that provokes
a reaction from society.

"These daily struggles for urgent needs transform objectively and
through the fact of social relations from existing social classes and
groups into social forces. Coming together organically and often with
their own organizational integrity, they become self-conscious actors
who are aware of their power, their voice, and their real enemies (the
ruling elites who have control over the power structures of the modern
social order).

Anarchist militants should not try to bring movements to an "anarchist"
position, but instead work to preserve their anarchist impulses, that
is, their natural tendency to self-organize and struggle militantly for
their own interests. This is based on the assumption that social
movements will achieve their revolutionary logic not when they reach the
point of defining themselves as "anarchists," but when they become
conscious of their own power as a whole (or at least as an overwhelming
majority) and use this power in their daily lives, consciously embracing
the ideas of anarchism. According to especialists, another role of the
anarchist militant within social movements is to respond to the various
political currents that will exist within these movements and to
actively combat the opportunist elements of the vanguard and electoral
politics.

So what we need to do, then, is to help society and not leave it in the
hands of politicians. In doing so, we need to ensure that the masses
express themselves, not to engage in anarchist propaganda.

Social Embedding
"Social embedment, then, is the struggle to reclaim the social vector of
anarchism. Essentially, anarchists must be involved in the daily
struggles of the oppressed and the working class. This does not mean
being involved in political parties or advocacy and lobbying
organizations. Instead, anarchists focus on struggle movements based on
oppressed social classes."

What do anarchists do to popular or mass organizations?
"Mass organizations are not specific political organizations, but
organizations of the class. They are based on meeting and fulfilling
immediate and objective material needs. However, their programs may
converge over time to the program of a specific organization. Efforts
should be made not to confuse the mass organisation programme developed
as a whole by oppressed groups expressing their own struggle with the
specific revolutionary programme of political organisations.

The specific anarchist organization works to clarify political ideas
within the mass organization - without dominating or dictating the route
of the march. That is, Anarchists do not place themselves in positions
of executive power superior to class organizations, but instead take
positions only when specifically authorized by a democratic process.

This does not mean that anarchists will not take the lead. Anarchists
seek to inspire workers to revolutionary conclusions, both by
illustrating the contradictions within capitalism and through the
practice of direct action in the class struggle. As revolutionary
situations develop, the mass organization must prepare for the
establishment of self-management and a socialist economy. When the
necessary conditions are met, workers unleash revolutionary
transformation through the mass organization."

United Front and Tendency Grouping
"United Fronts involve alliances with other working class organizations
based on class composition and at least on social democratic politics.
This is a defensive strategy that allows the Anarchist political
organization to maintain its political independence in the Front.

The concept of Tendency Grouping can frame any intervention in a
situation where a coalition of forces is brought together to achieve a
specific goal. Unlike the United Front, this framework allows for
campaign work that can include progressive bourgeois forces. In Tendency
Groupings, Anarchists attempt to establish an intermediate form of
organization based on a set of coherent definitions of practice and
ideological affinities between different organizations and political
tendencies.

What is important in all of these models is that the Anarchist
organization thinks about and strategically decides with whom to form
alliances, in what context, and why. The United Front and Tendency
Grouping are not applicable in every situation, but isolation from wider
forces can also make the Anarchist organization isolated and useless. It
should also be emphasized that political organization is inevitable and
therefore there must be a theory of how it works, but the primary focus
is on the grassroots unity of workers as a class, regardless of their
political affiliations. The United Front or Tendency Grouping is
meaningless if it is a top-down process that is accepted by political
leaders rather than rooted in the practices of the class."

Afterword
You don't have to agree with every conclusion I've quoted or written
here, but they are issues you should think about. I don't agree with the
tendency grouping part, for example. After all, I think we should, and
we should try to implement many of the ideas I've written here.

Further reading and bibliography
The trilogy of articles I've quoted:

The Basic Concepts of Specific Anarchist Organization (1) - Tommy Lawson
A section of the pamphlet "The Basic Concepts of Specific Anarchist
Organization" on Tommy Lawson's Red&Black Notes website, which has a
worldwide impact and is at the top of our translation list, was
translated and published by Barikat Haber by removing the foreword from
the original text and adding the "Translators' Foreword" instead. We
find it positive that this text has been translated into Turkish and we
hope that the work to be carried out on this text will be ...

The Basic Concepts of Specific Anarchist Organization (2) - Tommy Lawson
Tommy Lawson's "The Basic Concepts of Specific Anarchist Organization We
are sharing the second part of the brochure "Concepts of the Specific
Anarchist Organization" translated and published by Barikat Haber. Part
1 Part 3 ORGANIZATIONAL CONCEPTS AND MODELS The Organizational Concepts
section below aims to explain the concrete forms and practices of the
"Specific Anarchist-Communist Organization". Unlike the Key Ideas
section, the concepts in this section of the brochure provide
information on specific practices and organizational models. The
theoretical foundations of organizational concepts ...

Basic Concepts of the Specific Anarchist Organization (3) - Tommy Lawson
We are sharing the third part of Tommy Lawson's brochure "Basic Concepts
of the Specific Anarchist Organization" translated and published by
Barikat Haber. Part 1 Part 2 KEY STRATEGIES: Since we hope that the
concepts and organizational practices of the Anarchist-Communist
organization have been clarified, the following section is shorter than
the previous one. Strategies are of course never eternal and are not
suitable for all times and places. However, what is outlined in this
section is generally ...

Additional resources on this topic:

Especifismo: An Anarchist Praxis for Building Popular Movements and
Revolutionary Organisation in South America - Adam Weaver
Image: Lucha Libertaria (Libertarian Struggle), newspaper of the
Uruguayan Anarchist Federation. The theory and history of Especifismo,
its similarities and differences to Platformism, are explained and
detailed. Within the broader anarchist movement, we stand in a tradition
that advocates the need for an organised and disciplined anarchist
political organisation. The "Alliance" in the First International was an
early example of this model, but it was one of many such forces. In
1926, Nestor Makhno ...

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anarchist-federation-of-rio-de-janeiro-social-anarchism-and-organisation
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/juan-carlos-mechoso-uruguayan-anarchist-federation-fau-the-strategy-of-especifismo

https://www.yeryuzupostasi.org/2025/03/30/anarsistler-mart-gosterilerine-neden-katilmali-gorthim/
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