"Organizational responsibility and discipline should not horrify: they are traveling companions in the practice of social anarchism." ---- Nestor Makhno ---- Between July 18th and 20th, 2025, the Libertarian Socialist Organization (OSL) held the third session that concluded its first congress. Dozens of activists from the Southeast, Midwest, South, and North regions of Brazil were present. In the first two sessions, in 2023 and 2024, in addition to the founding of the OSL itself, we advanced on a series of issues involving principles, general strategy, political formation, and internal organization. In this third session, we made significant progress in the discussion of the medium-term situation, establishing an in-depth analysis of the international and Brazilian scenario of the last four decades, as well as in our strategic lines of union, community (urban and rural), and student action.
Overall, it's fair to say that the 1st ConOSL was a significant and successful step forward, demonstrating the importance not only of political and programmatic unity, but also of an organizational environment characterized by seriousness and militant commitment.
We will soon release the Medium-Term Economic Outlook document, produced from the analyses and debates that led to the conclusion of our congress session. At this time, we are making available excerpts from the opening speech of the third congress session, as well as greetings we received from other organizations around the world.
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OPENING GREETING OF THE CONGRESS
Compas,
Today, as we begin the third and final session of this first Congress, we reaffirm our commitment to the struggle and collective construction. This is not merely a space for debate, but a fundamental milestone in consolidating our organization as a tool for the emancipation of the working class.
Our first Congress has a clear objective: to build the foundations of our structure so that, in the coming period, we can consolidate ourselves as a revolutionary organization. We knew from the beginning that this moment would require a work of public affirmation, of building an identity in relation to other organizations and combative sectors of the class struggle. We recognized that, in this first cycle, we would not have the political, material, or theoretical conditions to act as direct protagonists in the struggles - but this was only the beginning.
The path taken
In the two previous sessions, we took decisive steps:
In the 1st Session, we established our identity, our principles, and our overall strategy that guides our actions;
In the 2nd Session, we made progress on political training and the Organic Charter, resolving issues of internal structuring and decision-making mechanisms, always with our eyes focused on social transformation.
Now, two years after our founding - having overcome the initial excitement and the challenges of this new (re)construction process - the time has come to look at the concrete world, analyze the conditions of struggle, and outline the strategic lines that will take us forward.
Our current situation
We can proudly state that we kept the organization running, even with redoubled efforts from the coordination team and with activists taking on multiple tasks. At no point did we interrupt our work: we issued statements, produced analyses, and actively participated in the struggles.
Our achievements
We made an organizational leap, actively participating in struggles;
We consolidated our theoretical approach by applying anarchism to the analysis of the current situation;
We put down roots, which is fundamental for a long-term project.
This Congress is not an end, but a starting point. May we leave here not only with resolutions, but with the revolutionary firmness of those who know that history is made by the hands of those who dare to transform it.
To the fight, always!
Long live the working class!
Long live Anarchism and Revolution!
Long live the Libertarian Socialist Organization!
July 2025.
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Greetings from International Organizations
Organisatie voor Vrij Socialisme - Netherlands
The Organization for Free Socialism (OVS) of the Netherlands would like to congratulate you all on the completion and establishment of the Libertarian Socialist Organization.
We have followed your journey with great interest and are impressed with what you have managed to establish in such a short time. OSL played a significant role in the creation of our own organization. Over the past year, OSL has provided us with invaluable support, for which we are extremely grateful. We would also like to express our sincere gratitude to OSL's international correspondent for their generosity in helping us with their time and energy.
We are very much looking forward to the future development of OSL and a deeper, more fruitful relationship.
Long live anarchy, long live OSL!
Yours sincerely,
Organisatie voor Vrij Socialisme.
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Roja y Negra - Buenos Aires, Argentina
OSL Comrades
We wish to send you fraternal greetings from Roja y Negra of Buenos Aires on this new stage that you are beginning with this Congress. In this moment that we are living in Latin America, we must strengthen the bonds of unity between our organizations, because only through joint struggle can we build a more just future, free from oppression.
Experience shows that organization is the fundamental weapon of the people. Every battle fought, every step taken, every lesson learned from anarchism is an invaluable tool on the path to social transformation. In this sense, we reaffirm our intention to work side by side, understanding that only by uniting our forces can we face the challenges that the patriarchal and capitalist system imposes on us.
We hope to further strengthen the bonds that unite us, reinforce our meeting spaces, and continue walking together in this societal project.
Arriba lxs que luchan
Roja y Negra - Anarchist Political Organization of Buenos Aires.
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Federal Anarchist Construction Argentina - Argentina
Greetings from CAFA of Argentina to OSL of Brazil.
We, the organizations that make up CAFA (Argentine Federal Anarchist Construction), want to send a warm greeting to our sister organization OSL of Brazil on its first founding Congress, which will take place this month.
In these difficult times for the working class, in which new forms of capitalist domination are emerging at the global and regional levels, and in the face of the failure of statist paths to socialism and freedom, your congress is a huge boost for those who dream of a new world, without oppressors or oppressed.
In a global scenario where an emerging empire collides with a declining one, and the shadow of a global war looms once again over humanity, the unity of anarchists in organizations that can combine their efforts in the struggle becomes a priority, and their historical slogans, such as internationalism, take on a dizzying relevance.
We enthusiastically welcome your congress and understand that it nourishes an important muscle of Latin American specifism, of which we are a part.
In a world that is becoming more threatening for workers, organizational dualism and social insertion as structural elements of specificist anarchism are the strategy that we anarchists must follow to be a useful factor in the emancipation of the working people from the clutches of capital.
We hope that, in the times to come, our bonds of solidarity will be strengthened and that their growth will be reflected in every struggle of the people for their emancipation.
ARRIBA LOS Y LAS QUE LUCHAN!
FOR SOCIALISM AND FREEDOM!
Long live anarchy!
CAFA
ANARCHIST FEDERATION OF ROSARIO (FAR)
CORDOBA ANARCHIST ORGANIZATION (OAC)
TUCUMAN ANARCHIST ORGANIZATION (OAT)
SANTA CRUZ ANARCHIST ORGANIZATION (OASC)
ANARCHIST RESISTANCE ORGANIZATION (ORA Bs As)
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Anarchist Communist Federation (ACF) - Australia
Dear comrades,
The Anarchist Communist Federation (ACF) of Australia welcomes with great satisfaction the founding of the Libertarian Socialist Organization (OSL). The Libertarian Socialist Organization is a major step forward in the active formation of a national anarchist political organization in Brazil. This is especially true considering that the OSL is the result of three decades of building especifism in its country and, more generally, in Latin America.
Some of us have been following the developments in anarchist and especifist communist formations and their activities in Brazil for some years, as well as their journey towards building a single anarchist political organization, with the goal of reaching all regions of Brazil.
Like the OSL, the Anarchist Communist Federation of Australia is a very recent organization, having been launched on May 1st, 2025. The Meanjin Anarchist Communists (ACM), the Geelong Anarchist Communists (GAC), and the Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group (MACG) became the founding branches of our Federation. We have been in dialogue for over four years, discussing our political work, advising and cooperating whenever possible. This process has allowed us to develop our skills and capacity for more in-depth collective work, including successful conferences in 2024 and 2025.
Like you, we formed the Anarchist Communist Federation because we want to be effective. That is why we demand a high level of theoretical and practical agreement among the members. If we cannot reach an agreement, we cannot work together. And if we cannot be specific and determined in this work, we will waste our revolutionary energy.
Like you, we also advocate for organizational dualism, that is, anarchists working in popular movements (social level) and also in specific political organizations (political level).
We want to overthrow capitalism. If we are organized, we can use our position to overthrow the old order and liberate ourselves. Together, we can build a world where we control our work and ensure that everyone's needs are met. With this in mind, we analyze social oppression through the lens of class struggle. No form of oppression can be eradicated without ending capitalism, and capitalism cannot be abolished while the working class remains divided. That is why we say: "What affects one, affects all."
To change society, we need a revolution. There is no legal path to socialism. The capitalists will not allow themselves to be simply eliminated through voting. This shapes the methods we use to organize and the strategies we employ.
Therefore, we welcome this tremendous advance of organized anarchism in Brazil!
Good luck with your conference!
Long live the OSL! Long live organized anarchism in Brazil!
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Embat - Catalonia, Spain
Greetings from Embat to the OSL congress.
Comrades,
With great enthusiasm and revolutionary spirit, Embat, the anarchist organization of Catalonia, cordially greets you on the occasion of your OSL Congress.
Today, as the foundations for the European and international coordination of organized anarchism are being laid, a new chapter in the struggle for a better world is being written from your homeland. It is with your help and contributions in these spaces that we recognize ourselves in the construction of self-management, mutual aid, and libertarian socialism, which is an inspiration to all those who believe in popular power.
As a sister organization, we share its values and aspirations as expressed in its history, which predates its own existence as an organization. We believe that, through solidarity, collaboration, and an unwavering commitment to social justice, together we can create a world where oppression, exploitation, and domination are a thing of the past.
We encourage you to act with courage and determination. We will overcome the challenges ahead. History teaches us that grassroots movements, those of the working class, when they strategically unite for a common goal, can achieve what seems impossible.
Let's walk this path together to build a truly free and equal world. A world where the voice of the people is at the center of life and society.
Long live Libertarian Socialism!
Long live People Power!
Embat, Organització Llibertària de Catalunya
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Union Communiste Libertaire - France
Comrades,
UCL sends you its congratulations on your congress, after two years of existence! We hope that this congress will be a moment of camaraderie and that it will allow you to implement concrete actions capable of influencing society.
We are using this message to propose an article in our newspaper about your organization and the struggles you face, in order to get to know you better.
Furthermore, through the international coordination of organized anarchism, we guarantee full support for your struggles, which are part of this magnificent worldwide fight for libertarian communism!
Long live the OSL, long live libertarian communism, long live internationalism!
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Federación Anarquista Uruguaya - Uruguay
Fellow members of OSL:
From the Uruguayan Anarchist Federation, we send fraternal greetings to this important body within your organization.
We wish you a rich exchange that results in resolutions that strengthen the organization and the struggle for a more just, free, and supportive world for those at the bottom.
Greetings, comrades!
Greetings, comrades!
Bring them up and let them go!
For socialism and freedom
Federación Anarquista Uruguaya
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Greetings from MIDADA - Switzerland
Dear comrades,
We send you our greetings and best wishes for your congress. Each congress marks a milestone in the life of an organization, especially for a newly founded one. Therefore, we rejoice in celebrating this moment. The task you have undertaken is difficult. It would be difficult even in "normal" times, but the particular period we are living through makes it especially arduous.
The national and international configurations we face are not entirely new, but they produce unprecedented (or renewed) situations. The dynamics are intensifying. As various elements of the status quo crumble internationally, attacks against our class are expanding nationally. Dehumanization is advancing at a dizzying pace. The very notion of human value seems to be on the verge of extinction. The idea of equality, even in its most basic conception, risks being reduced to nothing.
Technofascism is about to cross a threshold. Perhaps it already has. It is already outlining the contours of a postmodern absolutism and servility. We are beyond the nostalgia for the military dictatorships of the 20th century. Technophiles already see themselves as monarchs. They openly claim a world of new "city-states." Libertarians (liberals) no longer advocate for a stateless capitalism or a purely regulatory state. They want their companies to become the state.
We will have to confront unprecedented contradictions. We will need to be prepared to analyze both the old and the new. In this sense, we run two main risks:
1. Not seeing anything new because we are stuck in automated reasoning patterns.
2. Failing to recognize what persists, adapts, and develops , if we discard all our tools under the pretext that they are no longer useful for understanding a new reality.
It is possible that we will see, among our enemies, converging forces that, apparently, do not share the same objectives. To the point that this convergence requires the complete abandonment of the traditional objectives of one sector or another. Also among our adversaries, we may observe resistance against assimilation or abandonment. Therefore, there is still the risk of misinterpreting these dynamics, should they manifest themselves.
We will have to redouble our resolve and clarity of mind. We will need to prevent the co-opting of popular elements by any struggles that some enemy sectors may wage for their own survival.
More than ever, the enemy of my enemy will not necessarily be my friend.
This does not mean that a possible new "republican front" is impossible. But it will only be viable with advanced and deeply rooted conceptions of equality. We will probably have to wage a fierce ideological battle over equality and fundamental rights, in addition to our general programmatic conceptions.
"The freedom of others, far from being a limitation on my own, is, on the contrary, its necessary condition and its confirmation."
Bakunin's statement resonates today with renewed force. Every attack on the humanity of a specific group is a threat of annihilation for us all. Every limitation of the rights of a particular group risks plunging almost all of humanity into postmodern servility.
Equality and rights are at the heart of their war. Their new absolutism, in order to be born, needs to eradicate them completely. We must find ways to articulate the universalism of the struggles of the so-called "minorities." Some sectors of progressivism and the left strive to atomize the various categories of the downtrodden-sometimes to avoid confronting the status quo, sometimes to claim a kind of "revolutionary leadership" in the name of representing this or that identity, a new vanguard produced by attempts to save the theological mechanism.
The mindset of non-governmental organizations has replaced elements of the classical conception of social classes. Previously, a machine-disciplined agent was needed to lead the revolution. Now, it is those who suffer the most who have the "right" to be the new pawns. Each party disputes how to measure the suffering of the various agents.
Our task will be especially difficult. It is not, of course, a matter of erasing the specific realities of domination and exploitation of the various oppressed categories. It is a matter of curbing fragmentation and rebuilding unity. Perhaps it will also be necessary to find ways to bring universalism into being in each particular situation. Bakunin has already given us, perhaps, one of the keys to the solution.
We've already said too much. We regret not having elaborated on these reflections more clearly-they are still in process, unfinished. Our words are a draft, they should not be taken as anything more than that.
Comrades, we greet you warmly!
Our organization, Midada , is proud to be considered one of its sister organizations.
Up with those who fight!
https://socialismolibertario.net/osl-finaliza-seu-i-congresso/
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