Ruth Kinna, Alex Prichard, Thomas Swann, Seeds for Change

Anarchic Agreements (eBook, ePUB)

A Field Guide to Collective Organizing

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A new world is possible and not just in our hearts. Anarchic Agreements is a quintessential field guide for the revolution, answering the practical questions often left out of works of political theory and philosophy.

How do leaderless groups organize? How might they create constitutions, balance power and write protocols? How do group cultures and institutions maintain coalitions? This urgent and inspiring how-to is the product of more than twenty years of research. Designed explicitly for everyday use, it contains lived examples, illustrations throughout, and text from current horizontally organized constitutions. These documents illustrate the never-ending process of developing community and keeping collaborations alive in the fairest ways possible. Written by dedicated anarchist scholars and organizers, and based on the widely popular Anarchic Agreements pamphlet series, this book facilitates grassroots activism and provides methods to improve and streamline decision making. It is an inspiring celebration of the novel, complex and flexible constitutions Anarchists have created over time. This book shows how to realize another world, collectively without domination, while leaving the future open to infinite other possibilities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: PM Press
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781629639789
• Artikelnr.: 65153789

Autorenporträt

Ruth Kinna teaches at Loughborough University, UK. She has published numerous books on anarchism, historical and contemporary, and is a contributor to PM Press's Mutual Aid: An Illuminated Factor of Evolution. She is co-editor of Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red, also published by PM Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the PM Press Edition
Acknowledgements
Part 1
How to Build Durable Groups
Introduction
Key principles
Consensual
Changeable
Conscious
Key areas of constitutionalising
What is the group?
How are decisions made?
How do we get things done?
What policies do we need?
How can we make the group empowering?
Part 2
How to Build Durable Coalitions
Challenges for coalitions
Constitutionalising: key questions
How will you organise yourselves?
How will you make decisions?
Who are the decision-making members?
How will you share information?
What policies and ‘rules’ do you need?
Building your coalition culture
Conclusion: Connections within a wider movement
Further reading
Appendix 1: Sample Constitutional Texts
1. Declarations
2. Institutions
3. Decision making procedures
4. Rules and rule making
Appendix 2: Putting it all into practice