The Anarchist Federation (AF) is a federation of anarcho-communists in Ireland.
Known for most of its two-decades-long history as the Anarchist Communist Federation, a name change was agreed upon in the late 1990s, though an advocacy of anarcho_communism remained at the center of its politics.
Key Anarchist Federation principles include a commitment to class struggle as a method of abolishing capitalism and the state, and a rejection of the strategy of vanguardism which it sees as being typified by 'revolutionary' political parties.
The Anarchist Federation publishes the theoretical journal Organise!, as well two different versions (British and Irish) of its monthly newsletter, Resistance.
To begin with, he rather curiously locates Stirnerite individualism within the anarchist current, although it should be obvious that an approach that emphasises the individual at the expense of mutual aid is incompatible with anarchist social theory as he, and we, understand it.
The fact that anarchist thought originated in response to state and class oppression does not mean that it is defined by oppression; and it certainly does not change the fact that oppression is the main obstacle to the achievement of our goals.
Anarchists hold that all, including the rulers, are degraded by this situation; we recognise that the oppressed are often complicit; we also know that the rulers sometimes apologise and express the intention to improve matters in the future; and yet it goes on.
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