Alternative libertaire

Alternative libertaire (AL, "Libertarian Alternative") is a French anarchist organization formed in 1991 which publishes a monthly magazine, actively participates in a variety of social movements, and is a participant in the Anarkismo.net project. It was also a member of the International Libertarian Solidarity network.

Alternative Libertaire identifies with various tendencies within the libertarian socialist current of anarchism including anarcho-communism and anarcho-syndicalism.

Ideology

The organization identifies with the revolutionary workers' movement drawn from the split in the First International (the International Workingmens' Association) in 1872. This was in opposition to the Marxists, whom Mikhail Bakunin regarded as authoritarian.^[1]

Alternative Libertaire's practical and ideological background has been summed up by the organisation as continuing from the following groups:

• Bakunin and his supporters within the First International.
• The revolutionary syndicalists of the French CGT before 1914.
• The Makhnovists, and the Organizational Platform^[2] proposed by the exiled Russian anarchists.
• Spanish anarcho-syndicalism, the Spanish Revolution 1936 and in particular the actions of the Friends of Durruti group.
• The Libertarian Communist Federation (FCL) and the Libertarian Communist Manifesto by Georges Fontenis in 1954.
• The Union des travailleurs communistes libertaires (Libertarian Communist Workers’ Union, UTCL), the works of Daniel Guérin and the Libertarian Communist Project of 1986.

Activity

Today Alternative Libertaire is developing its political action on two fronts:^[3]

• The building of an alliance of social movements, to give political weight to the politics of the people against the institutionalised left.
• The building of a libertarian communist current which fuels and is fuelled by the activities of the social movements.

AL militants are particularly involved in struggles in the workplace and in the unions, in the CGT or in SUD (sometimes in the CNT), in the fight against unemployment, for the right to housing, in the environmental movement and in the fight against patriarchy. Alternative Libertaire endeavours to link these conflicts in today’s society with the perspective of a break with capitalism and the state.

References

External links

• Alternative Libertaire Homepage

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People	Nestor Makhno Piotr Arshinov Ida Mett Lucien van der Walt
Theory	Anarchist communism Anti-authoritarianism Anti-capitalism Anti-imperialism Black Flame Class consciousness Class struggle Collective action Especifismo Federalism Free association Makhnovism Popular education Prefigurative politics Social insertion United front
Organizations	Current Al Badil Al Taharouri Alternative libertaire Anarkismo Network Anarşist Komünist Inisiyatif Common Struggle – Libertarian Communist Federation Federação Anarquista Gaúcha Federación Anarco-Comunista de Argentina Federación Anarquista Uruguaya Federazione dei Comunisti Anarchici Libertære Socialister Organization communiste libertaire Revolutionary Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists "N. I. Makhno" Workers Solidarity Movement Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front Defunct Dielo Truda International Libertarian Solidarity
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