Popular Power

How to Organise Your Building

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How to Organise Your Building by Rose Lenehan and Tracy Rosenthal

Authors: Rose Lenehan and Tracy Rosenthal

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This article by Rose Lenehan and Tracy Rosenthal originally appeared in Jewish Currents. It serves as a basic organising guide for those seeking to build and use collective power to solve issues facing themselves and their neighbours.

Both authors are veteran organisers with the Los Angeles Tenants Union, one of the largest and most successful tenant unions in the United States. Tracy Rosenthal is a co-author of the recent book Abolish Rent.

Source: https://www.blackrosefed.org/how-to-organize-your-building/

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How to Organise a Neighbourhood Popular Assembly

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Authors: Members of the Black Rose/Rosa Negra Housing and Territorial Committee

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This is a basic guide on how and why to build structures for decision making and collective action at the neighbourhood level, what we call popular assemblies. We emphasize the need for popular assemblies to be rooted in a defined geographic area and aimed at organising the people who live, work, or stay there to develop the power to confront social problems together.

This guide draws directly on knowledge and experience of past experiments in building popular assemblies.

Source: https://www.blackrosefed.org/how-to-organize-a-neighborhood-popular-assembly/

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Popular Power: People’s Ability to Organise their Own Society

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Author: Federación Anarquista Uruguaya

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Faced with the obvious historical failure of certain currents designated as socialist, a broad theoretical and political debate was opened up. Much of the material that was incorporated into it turned out to be nothing more than the old failed discourse now updated and which did not critically touch on the fundamental issues.

English translation: Jonathan Payn
Source: alasbarricadas.org
FAU: federacionanarquistauruguaya.uy

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Strategy and Tactics for a Revolutionary Anarchism

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Strategy and Tactics for a Revolutionary Anarchism by Lusbert

Author:  Lusbert

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As COVID-19 continues to spread, triggering an unprecedented global crisis, we need to take up the challenging task of both responding to the urgency of the moment and positioning ourselves for the post-pandemic period, which remains uncertain. This will require a critical engagement with strategy and tactics that are tied to a long-term vision

Written by Lusbert, a libertarian communist based in Spain, Strategy and Tactics for a Revolutionary Anarchism lays the foundation for exploring fundamental questions related to class struggle, building popular power, strategy, assessing the correlation of forces, building a revolutionary program and communications infrastructure — all of which we need to develop if we want to have a meaningful influence over this rapidly changing and disorienting political moment.

From the website of the Black Rose Anarchist Federation / Federación Anarquista Rosa Negra.
Translation by Enrique Guerrero-López and Antonio Spalla.

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[Leaflet] The Problems Posed by the Concrete Class Struggle and Popular Organisation: Reflections from an Anarchist Communist Perspective

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[Leaflet] The Problems Posed by the Concrete Class Struggle and Popular Organisation: Reflections from an Anarchist Communist Perspective by José Antonio Gutiérrez D.

Author: José Antonio Gutiérrez D.

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From Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation:

We present this now classic piece written in July 2005 by Chilean anarchist José Antonio Gutiérrez Danton that is an early contribution to discussions of concepts around what are called the mass, intermediate and political levels that develop within social and political movements. Here, Danton uses the terms social, social-political and revolutionary political whereas in the US these are commonly discussed as the mass, intermediate and political. These concepts have been influential for helping revolutionaries think in more concrete and deeper way around organisations and movements.

From the website of the Black Rose Anarchist Federation / Federación Anarquista Rosa Negra.

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Especifismo: The Anarchist Praxis of Building Popular Movements and Revolutionary Organisation

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Especifismo: The Anarchist Praxis of Building Popular Movements and Revolutionary Organisation by Adam Weaver

Author: Adam Weaver

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First published in The Northeastern Anarchist #11 in Spring 2006, “Especifismo: The Anarchist Praxis of Building Popular Movements and Revolutionary Organisation” broke new ground as the first English introductory article on the concept of Especifismo. While being short and limited in scope, it has since become a standard introductory text which has been translated into multiple languages and is now used by Latin American political organisations. The piece was based on early translations and exchanges by Brazilian-American anarchist Pedro Ribeiro but since its publication new translations have further deepened and enriched the understanding of Especifismo. These include the Federación Anarquista Uruguaya’s 1972 theoretical piece “Huerta Grande” [i] and the multi-chapter booklet “Social Anarchism and Organisation” [ii] by the Federação Anarquista do Rio de Janeiro (FARJ).

From the website of the
Black Rose Anarchist Federation / Federación Anarquista Rosa Negra

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