A-fed and Antifascism

[Holden Caulfield]

It appears to me that the Anarchist Federation doesn't have a line of anti-fascism and some in it discard it entirely and some actively take part in it...

Is this true and can people in the Afed tell me their views see if they are similar..

[Pirate turtle the 11th]

I support the work of antifa as i am sure the majority of afeders do.

Heres a link to an afed pamplet called "resistance to nazism".




http://www.afed.org.uk/ace/anarchist_resistance_to_nazism.pdf

[nuisance]

Aims and Principles
3. We believe that fighting racism and sexism is as important as other aspects of the class struggle. Anarchist-Communism cannot be achieved while sexism and racism still exist. In order to be effective in their struggle against their oppression both within society and within the working class, women, lesbians and gays, and black people may at times need to organise independently. However, this should be as working class people as cross-class movements hide real class differences and achieve little for them. Full emancipation cannot be achieved without the abolition of capitalism.

Yes, some members regard anti-fascism as being fetishised, as is Devirms' position?, but I wouldn't say that's the majority view by far. We, as anarchists, believe that the working class needs to act in its own interests to defend itself, this directly links into the idea of Antifa and militant antifascism in general.

Here's a antifascism special of Organise! in PDF and HTML format:
http://www.afed.org.uk/org/org70.pdf
http://www.afed.org.uk/org/issue70/index.html

[K.Bullstreet]

Deffinately not the case Holden.

We are a class struggle anarchist group though, not a single issue group. We see anti-fascism as part of the class struggle, just like most other active anti-fascists at the moment, as A&P number 3 shows.

There are members that are involved in Antifa, we produce plenty of anti-fascist stickers, articles in Resistance/Organise etc.

Where I am (Hereford), the group does alot of anti-fascist work, without loosing focus on other isssues at hand mind. We are in a recession, thousands of jobs ae being lost, homes are being repossessed, people are being made homeless etc, so it is time to organise and get active!