The Northwest Anarchist Federation
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The website of the Northwest Anarchist Federation (NAF) is now up and running. Check it out for articles on anarchism, upcoming events, including the NAF Speaking Tour: Another Future, happening in portland February 18, 19, and 20. Go to www.nafederation.org
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The website of the Northwest Anarchist Federation (NAF) is now up and running. Check it out for articles on anarchism, upcoming events, including the NAF Speaking Tour: Another Future, happening in portland February 18, 19, and 20. Go to www.nafederation.org
The Perspectives of the Northwest Anarchist Federation
Walking the picket line, organizing tenant unions and student unions, opposing social oppression in the workplace and community is where we can be found. We are the teachers, carpenters, service workers, and students who are the backbone of society, we are anarchist-communists. We are fighting for a new world, one based on equality, freedom, and direct democracy. Our existence has spanned the centuries; our roots are in the radical elements of struggle against oppressive institutions. From the Russian Revolution to the recent health care workers strike in British Columbia , we have been in the trenches of the class war between the haves and the have noughts. Despite this history of struggle for justice, our ideas and vision has been pushed to the margins of history and struggles. As anarchist-communists in the 21 st century, we are building a movement that will put the radical ideas of equality, freedom, and direct democracy at the center of the class and social struggle. For too long we have remained disorganized due our disciple, life-stylism, liberalism, reactionary organizing, and praxis. We anarchist-communist of the Northwest Anarchist Federation have set out to build an organized federation of collectives and individuals with a praxis, which is a combination of theory and tactics, that will allow our ideas and vision to take their rightful place in the class and social war.
Simply put, anarchist-communists seek to have an organized group of militants who can act collectively and federally with a common theory and tactic in the social and class war. Through propaganda, direct action, and solidarity in struggle we aim to encourage a unified class struggle. We view class and social struggle as the base from which society can be fundamentally changed. Workers run society; hence we can control it if we only try. Yet, we working people have been divided by the propaganda of the ruling class. We have come to believe that our co-workers are our enemies because they come from a different ethnicity or gender. We have been divided by our trade skills. These are artificial divisions, and we anarchist-communists believe we can overcome these false divisions through solidarity in struggle. When Latino workers are fighting against racism at work, white workers must show solidarity by standing behind Latino workers in their struggle for racial justice. Only when this happens can we collectively fight against the bosses for economic justice. When we working people can show solidarity in struggle, we can fight collectively for a new world.
Anarchist-communists are involved in the social and class war and we seek to influence it with the ideas and tactics we develop through our direct involvement in the struggle. We are not attempting to be a vanguard, we are attempting a leadership of ideas. We see the social movements of the 21 st century in North America struggle to defend the gains made and survive as organizations. We see the necessity of revolutionary ideas and tactics implemented within these social movements if they hope to survive and eventually overthrow this system of capitalism, the state, and social oppression. We must step up the militancy in the social movements, or we will continue to be beaten down and shit upon.
Not only do we anarchist-communists see reformism as failing current social movements, but we also see a crisis brewing on the horizon. Historically, when capitalism and social relations are in a crisis period, revolutionary struggle has a greater chance to overthrow the system in its weakened state. Seeing this crisis looming ahead of us, we feel even more urgency to become an effective organized force within the social movements.
The work cut out for the Northwest Anarchist Federation is great and will require continued discipline and militancy of our current membership. Internally, we see the need to further build a relevant praxis. Through our participation in social movements we are reflecting and building the theory and tactics that we hope will further the goals of these movements and build towards the overthrow of this system.
We anarchist-communists in NAF recognize our numbers are small and encourage other revolutionaries in the social movements to join us and contribute to our efforts. We have collectives and individuals in Victoria , British Columbia , Seattle , Washington , and Portland , Oregon . We are presently solidifying these local groups into more effectively organized elements in the social and class war. We are seeking out militants in other cities throughout the Northwest and inviting them to join us.
As a anarchist-communist federation within the Northwest region, we recognize the need to coordinate our efforts with other class struggle anarchist federations throughout North America . A confederation of class struggle anarchist federations in North America will further our influence within social movements in North American and is the next logical step for those of us dedicated to the overthrow of this system.
Anarchist-communists within the Northwest of North America are organizing. We are internally developing our federation into a more effective element within the struggle's of us working people in the Northwest. We are committed to seeing through the revolution of working people for a world of freedom, equality, and direct democracy. We encourage other militants within the Northwest to join us. To win the social and class war, we must be committed. Together, we working people will win. We do not doubt that.
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