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Developing strategy can be very intimidating: it requires thinking about a lot of different things and how they interlink, taking a stand on certain issues and committing to courses of action based on imperfect information. Anarchists face an additional barrier to developing strategy in that we cannot simply hand off thinking about it to leaders… Read more: THINKING ABOUT STRATEGY

The following are the opinions of an individual member of Eclipse and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the entire committee. I have been involved in several anarchist and libertarian socialist organisations with very specific politics and I have always felt that such organisations are genuinely useful. There are certain kinds of concerted action… Read more: ORGANISATION – GENERAL OR SPECIFIC?

In the three previous posts we have argued that the structure of the state causes an inherent drift towards fascism if not opposed, that anarchism is the ideology that offers the best strategies and organisational structures to build such opposition, and that other progressive ideologies are too confused and compromised to do the job. However,… Read more: ANARCHISM AGAINST FASCISM PART IV – AN ANARCHIST ANTI-FASCIST MOVEMENT

In the last two posts we have discussed how the structure of the state promotes fascism and how we need a movement based on opposition to the state, and bottom-up structures that encourage anti-fascist ideas. In this post we will take a look at what this analysis means for how we understand the development of… Read more: ANARCHISM AGAINST FASCISM PART III – THE FAILURE TO FIGHT FASCISM

This is a response to a critique of the Eclipse project posted on LibCom here Firstly, we thank the comrade for their concerns and for giving us an opportunity to clarify what it is we are trying to do and why we have positioned the Eclipse project the way we have. Many members of the… Read more: STRATEGY AND NETWORKS

In our previous post we argued that the state as a structure will always encourage fascist ideas. The state requires obedience and strong borders to function, and this is far more compatible with fascism than it is with liberalism, socialism, or even conservatism. However, while fascism may be the ideology that best aligns with the… Read more: ANARCHISM AGAINST FASCISM PART II – THE STATE AND FASCIST PEOPLE

Today, much of the global core seems to be sliding towards fascism. In the USA, the liberal establishment is paralysed by the rise of Trump. In the UK, both Labour and the Tories have reacted to the rise of Reform not by opposing its ideas, but pandering to them; and this seems to be the… Read more: ANARCHISM AGAINST FASCISM PART I – THE STATE AND FASCIST IDEAS

In our last two posts, we argued that diversity was a necessary and unavoidable part of the anarchist movement, and that accepting and working with this diversity can ultimately create a stronger and more effective anarchist movement, rather than ignoring it or trying to work against it. But this leads to the question of how… Read more: A DIVERSITY OF ANARCHISMS PART III – MAKING DIVERSITY WORK

We argue that diversity of theory, organisational form, tactics, and strategy is something that anarchists have to accept about our movement for it to succeed as a movement, and we can not impose ideological or strategic unity on our comrades. It is not a question of if we accept this diversity, but rather a question… Read more: A DIVERSITY OF ANARCHISMS PART II – PLAYING TO OUR STRENGTHS

Anarchism is a diverse movement with a long history. There are many routes into anarchism; socialists and greens who reject the state, liberals who apply their liberalism consistently, local traditions of dissent and resistance, experiencing abuse of authority by bosses and politicians, cultural critique, reading anarchist theory, and the countless other ways we all ended… Read more: A DIVERSITY OF ANARCHISMS PART I – ANARCHISTS AND ANARCHISMS