Welcome to the AFED website. We are a federation of anarchist groups and individual members in Britain and a member organisation of the International of Anarchist Federations. On this site you can read what we think and find out about our various activities, which our members participate in and help to develop collectively, as equals.
JUNE 2013 RESISTANCE is out. DIVIDE AND RULE (benefits & immigration), Brighton refuse worker wildcat, Salford blacklister injury, Rossport week of action, Asia factories, Greece prisoner action, Greek teachers' resistance and betrayal.
The latest issue of the AF's magazine is out. RUST (Anarchy in the Thatcher Years - Extended editorial reflecting on the emergence of class struggle anarchism in the 1980s), SWP, Privilege Theory, Organised Safer Space, Repression in Belarus, The Idea of the Commune in Anarchist Practice, Reviews (Platformism in Latin America, El Libertario text, Solfed pamphlet, Haymarket, German exile in revolutionary Spain), Letter about Occupy!
NEW FOR APRIL 2013 (minor revision of MARCH 2010 original). The main text lays out the fundamental ideas of anarchist communism. It is a really good overview of the politics of the Anarchist Federation. Various insets throughout the text give examples from history to illustrate the ideas described in the main section. Free download. Printed copies £2.00 +p&p. More pamphlets
Anarchist Communist Editions series ♣ ACE#21
Read more: New! INTRODUCTION TO ANARCHIST COMMUNISM (APRIL 2013 EDITION)
Read AF recent views and discussion articles relating to Austerity, Education, Welfare, Anarchafeminism, LGBTQ, Anti-racism, Environment.
See our blog for additional articles on war, prisons and international anarchism etc.
Austerity (general):
AF flyer for N30 - Symbolic Protest or Fight to Win?
Anarchist Federation statement on the June 30th strikes
Everything we've won: they want it back (March 2011)
Education:
Interview with an anarchist student occupier at Sheffield University
Working in Universities, Living With the Axe
Unite the struggles - London AF - October 2011
The students are revolting - report on the occupation of Millbank Tower
Healthcare workers: where we stand-fighting on two fronts
Private versus 'Socialised' healthcare
Nottingham City NHS and the cuts – a healthworker speaks out
Welfare:
Anti-workfare coordinated actions on 31st March 2012 - reports
Anti-workfare leaflet for 3rd March Day of Action
End of the Social Wage? Radical responses to the Welfare Reform Bill
Anarcha-feminism
A Class Struggle Anarchist Analysis of Privilege Theory – from the Women's Caucus.
Safer spaces, false allegations, and the NYC Anarchist Bookfair
Response to: Prostitution is Not Compatible with Anarchism
LGBTQ:
What's Wrong with Angry? - LGBTQ Bulletin of the Anarchist Federation - no.2
Queer- An Anarchist Deconstruction
Anti-racism:
The BNP, a working class party?
The European elections and the BNP, an anarchist perspective
Environment
Climate Camp and Us - a perspective paper
Meet the Green Boss - climate camp leaflet, discussion, report & paper