Anarchist Federation
An anarchist federation is a form of anarchist organization. In anarchist federations anarchist groups, individuals and other anarchist federations join together. Anarchist federations exist at different levels, such as cities , regions , countries and language areas . As an international merger of Anarchist Federations acts International of Anarchist Federations , but which does not belong to all Anarchist Federations.
Organizational form
The association in an anarchist federation is voluntary and based on solidarity . Anarchist federations today are mostly open to the various currents of anarchism . Traditionally they were anarcho-communist oriented.
In anarchist federations there is no elected board , but members who have an imperative mandate for various tasks. These are called secretariats . Anarchist federations are structured from bottom to top, in the sense that congresses take place, but these are only attended by delegates without decision-making authority and only serve to exchange ideas. Resolutions concerning their affairs are made by the local or regional federations and general assemblies according to the principle of consensus .
Anarchist federations internationally
Supraregional there are anarchist federations in areas with a common language (e.g. French-speaking Fédération Anarchiste ) or regionally (e.g. Federación Anarquista Ibérica for Spain and Portugal) or countries (e.g. Federazione Anarchica Italiana in Italy or Federacja Anarchistyczna in Poland). Anarchist federations also exist in the Americas (e.g. Common Struggle in North America ) and Africa.
German-speaking area: Federation of German-speaking anarchists
In contrast to the other European language areas, there are only a few local anarchist federations in German-speaking countries. The federation of the German-speaking area is currently being set up after various failed approaches. The Federation of German-Speaking Anarchists (FdA) is a member of the International of Anarchist Federations.
- history
Since the 1960s there have been attempts to form anarchist organizations in the Federal Republic of Germany , beyond the local anarchist groups . Local and regional networks, federations, newspaper groups , initiatives, municipalities , self-governing companies and others were formed again and again . However, despite various attempts, the establishment of a transnational federation has not yet succeeded and most of the other organizational approaches all too often turned out to be very short-lived. So far, direction-specific organizations have been the most stable, such as the grassroots movement with the Federation of Nonviolent Action Groups , which, due to its more or less restricted target groups and areas of activity, was only able to partially succeed in fulfilling the tasks of a non-existent cross-directional anarchist network in Germany.
The last attempt to establish a cross-directional anarchist federation in the German-speaking area was made in 1989 by the I-AFD ( Initiative for an Anarchist Federation in Germany ). Deliberately acting as an initiative group and not as a federation, in order to avoid hostility from the outset through the accusation of being entitled to "sole representation" or the like, the I-AFD tried on the one hand to initiate a network of the existing groups and on the other hand to improve the responsiveness and integration of the numerous individuals enable. The aim should in particular be to increase the effectiveness of the activities, a stronger public presence and a better flow of information.
Although only an initiative, the I-AFD was accepted into the International of Anarchist Federations (IFA) in order to re-integrate the anarchist movement in the German-speaking area into international anarchism.
In 2000, at a last meeting after an analysis of the state, the shortcomings, but also the potentials and opportunities of the anarchist movement in the German-speaking area, the I-AFD experiment was ended. The remaining activists then founded the Forum of German-speaking Anarchists (FdA) in order to be able to maintain the internal and international contacts that had been established and to provide a basis for an anarchist life.
At Easter 2003 the IFA (Crifa) International Secretaries Meeting took place for the first time in German-speaking countries. Motivated by reports from and direct contacts with anarchists from other countries at the meeting, the "Anarchist Federation Rhine-Neckar-Palatinate (AF RNP)" emerged from the loose network "Anarchist Regional Meeting Rhine-Neckar-Palatinate". As a regional federation, it has joined the FdA. A networking initiative by AF RNP in summer 2003 enabled further contacts to be established with anarchist groups in German-speaking countries.
At the annual meeting of the FdA in Elmstein in February 2004, the structures, principles and goals of the FdA were specified and a catalog of measures was drawn up for further development and work. At the two congresses in Cologne in 2005, a declaration of principles with statutes was drawn up and adopted. Since then, a congress has been held at various German-speaking locations at irregular intervals. In 2008 the FdA had around five groups and 80 people as members in Germany and Switzerland. In November 2012, the FdA doubled its number of local groups with the entry of the Anarchist Network Southwest to over 20. With the A4 printing collective from Zurich in the same month, the first company became a member of the FdA.
In 2009 the anarchist federation Berlin organized an anarchist congress in Berlin.
Since January 2011 the FdA publishes the Gǎidào (chin .: go a different way ) as a newspaper of the anarchist federation (FdA-IFA). It appears monthly as an online magazine and has also been in print since the beginning of 2013.
In 2012, the FdA was significantly involved in the preparation of the World Anarchist Congress 2012 in St-Imier (Switzerland). The anniversary of the first anti-authoritarian international (founded in the same place) was celebrated.
In 2013 the FdA changed its name to the Federation of German-Speaking Anarchists .
See also
- Socialist League (1908)
- Federation of Liberal Socialists
- League of domineered socialists
- Federation of Communist Anarchists of Germany
- List of anarchist organizations
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federacja Anarchistyczna. Retrieved December 26, 2012 .
- ↑ Anarchistisches Netzwerk Südwest * joins the Forum of German-Speaking Anarchists (FdA) on the FdA website, November 7, 2012
- ^ Anarchist group Cologne and libertarian A4 printing collective now part of the forum of German-speaking anarchists on the FdA website, November 18, 2012
- ^ Anarchist Congress 2009 in Berlin . Retrieved August 11, 2013
- ^ Anarchist World Congress 2012 ( Memento from August 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved January 29, 2017