Anarchist Organisations

[PoliticalNightmare]

What are the best anarchist, syndicalist and libertarian communist political organisations in the UK? I flipflop between Cornwall (the south, i.e. Truro/Redruth/St Austell/Penzance area) and Birmingham a lot, though I realise there are more likely to be such organisations in the latter, given the ideology as a minority view point.

I tend to stray away from more authoritarian organisations and I don't want to be involved in anything too "dogmatic".

[The Man]

Here is a whole list of different Anarchist Organizations in the UK, and almost everywhere else in the world for that matter... But I don't know which one is the best.

http://www.revleft.com/vb/political-organisations-t27951/index.html

[The Idler]

SPGB (http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/) have their Summer School in Birmingham.

[bricolage]

It doesn't really make much sense to talk about 'the best' anarchist organisation, they are different organisations with different political viewpoints. Regarding the list that Lycanthrope linked to, the Wombles don't exist any more, Class War doesn't really exist, AntiFa, to the extent that it has ever 'existed', has never been an organisation in the way the others are, the IWW isn't anarchist. I don't know anything about Black Cross groups.

The Anarchist Federation Solidarity Federation and Liberty & Solidarity all still exist and there are some syndicalists in The Commune I believe. I'm sure there are a whole myriad of other groups calling themselves anarchist out there but in terms of formal organisations these are the only ones to speak of.

[PoliticalNightmare]

Thanks fellows.


The IWW isn't anarchist.

Ah yeah, in name they are not anarchist but quite a few of its members (the majority, I believe?) are anarchists or libertarian socialists of a kind. I'd be perfectly happy to settle for something like that. In fact, organisations that aren't too dogmatic, i.e., ideologically pure, tend to attract more people, so that's a good thing in a way.

That's why I'm also interested in syndicalist groups given that syndicalism is merely a trade union strategy but one where its members are more likely to get a say.