NEFAC
Encyclopedia
NEFAC is a platformist
anarchist communist
organization
based in the northeast region of the United States
. NEFAC was officially launched at a congress held in Boston, Massachusetts over the weekend of April 7-9, 2000, following months of discussion between former Atlantic Anarchist Circle affiliates and ex-Love and Rage
members in the United States and ex-members of the Demanarchie newspaper collective in Quebec City. Originally founded as a bi-lingual French and English-speaking federation with member and supporter groups in the northeast of the United States, southern Ontario and the Quebec province, the organization later split up in 2008. The Québécoise membership reformed as the Union Communiste Libertaire (UCL) and the U.S. membership retained the name NEFAC. Former members based in Toronto went on to help found Common Cause, an Ontario-based platformist organization.
NEFAC are affiliated with the international platformist website project Anarkismo, and were associated with the now defunct International Libertarian Solidarity
.
The Northeastern Anarchist is the official English language publication of NEFAC.
NEFAC's creation was inspired by the Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists. The platform was created by Nestor Makhno
as well as other anarchist exiles in 1926.
Platformism
Platformism is a tendency within the wider anarchist movement originally theorised by Nestor Makhno and is mainly based on his concept of anarchism and the organisational theories in the tradition of Dielo Truda's Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists ...
anarchist communist
Anarchist communism
Anarchist communism is a theory of anarchism which advocates the abolition of the state, markets, money, private property, and capitalism in favor of common ownership of the means of production, direct democracy and a horizontal network of voluntary associations and workers' councils with...
organization
Organization
An organization is a social group which distributes tasks for a collective goal. The word itself is derived from the Greek word organon, itself derived from the better-known word ergon - as we know `organ` - and it means a compartment for a particular job.There are a variety of legal types of...
based in the northeast region of the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. NEFAC was officially launched at a congress held in Boston, Massachusetts over the weekend of April 7-9, 2000, following months of discussion between former Atlantic Anarchist Circle affiliates and ex-Love and Rage
Love and Rage
The Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation was formed in the United States in 1993 out of the remaining groups in the Love and Rage Network.-Background:...
members in the United States and ex-members of the Demanarchie newspaper collective in Quebec City. Originally founded as a bi-lingual French and English-speaking federation with member and supporter groups in the northeast of the United States, southern Ontario and the Quebec province, the organization later split up in 2008. The Québécoise membership reformed as the Union Communiste Libertaire (UCL) and the U.S. membership retained the name NEFAC. Former members based in Toronto went on to help found Common Cause, an Ontario-based platformist organization.
NEFAC are affiliated with the international platformist website project Anarkismo, and were associated with the now defunct International Libertarian Solidarity
International Libertarian Solidarity
International Libertarian Solidarity was an international anarchist network with over 20 participating organizations from North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa....
.
The Northeastern Anarchist is the official English language publication of NEFAC.
NEFAC's creation was inspired by the Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists. The platform was created by Nestor Makhno
Nestor Makhno
Nestor Ivanovych Makhno or simply Daddy Makhno was a Ukrainian anarcho-communist guerrilla leader turned army commander who led an independent anarchist army in Ukraine during the Russian Civil War....
as well as other anarchist exiles in 1926.