We are the Manchester Group of the Anarchist Federation, an organisation of class struggle anarchists in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. There are other northern AF groups in Sheffield, Leeds,, Liverpool and Nottingham. We have members in other towns Barnsley, Gateshead, Halifax, Hull, Newcastle and York. By bringing together northern anarchist communists, we hope to be able to support each other and further the growth of our movement and spread of anarchist ideas.

We are happy to announce the formation of a new group, Lancashire AF, based on the towns of Blackpool and Preston. To contact them, send an email to preston@af-north.org.

What We Want

We aim to be part of the movement to abolish capitalism and all oppression and to create a free communist society. This is anarchist communism. [more]

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Join the Anarchist Federation
If you want to know more, then read these four articles:

Introducing the Anarchist Federation

Why We Want You to Join the Anarchist Federation

Organising for Resistance. An Interview with an AFed activist.

Report from our Summer Meeting

You can also read our Revised Consitution here.

Manchester AF distributed this leaflet at last year's Convention of the Left. It explains why we are Neither Left Nor Right

Download our poster on the economic crisis Capitalism Not Fit For Business.

If you want to join the Anarchist Federation, send an email to:join[at}afed.org.uk
 

 

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Anarchist Federation Publications

Two new pamphlets from Manchester AF about revolutionaries in the 1930s and 40s: Women and the Spanish Revolution Class War on the Home Front. New pamphlets by Manchester, London and Leicester AF Groups Resistance - this is the AF's monthly news bulletin. You can get a copy by clicking on this link. You'll either be able to read it as a pdf or as an html file.   Organise - our magazine. It comes out twice a year and covers issues in more depth. Available by clicking here. You can buy a paper copy by clicking here. We take Paypal. Pamphlets - the Anarchist Federation has produced a range of pamphlets. These are available on the web. Click here. Or you can buy a copy using our online ordering page. We also have a number of pamphlets produced by London, Leicester and Manchester AF groups. These are available by following the link here. Also on this page are a number of recently reprinted, but previously unavailable AF texts.

 

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The War in Gaza

Crocodile Tears for Gaza

This is the text of Manchester AF's recent statement on the Israeli State's attack on the Gaza Flotilla

On May 31th in the dead of night, Israeli elite commandos stormed a convoy of ships carrying aid, preventing it from reaching Gaza, killing nine people and injuring dozens in the process. Those on board had wanted to deliver 10,000 tonnes of food, medicine, construction materials, wheelchairs and other aid to Gaza to break a blockade imposed by Israel since 2007 and provide people with access to some basic necessities of life.

The mass of the population in Gaza has a fragile and miserable existence because of the blockade. It has enclosed Gaza and turned it into a prison; a prison which could not by maintained without the Egyptian government keeping their own border crossing firmly closed. While 70% of Gazans live on less than $1 a day, another 75% rely on food aid and 60% have no daily access to clean water. They live in poverty while what little remains is daily attacked by the Israeli bombs and bulldozers. More ...

You can find all of our texts from this year and last year on Gaza here

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Also on this site

On this site you'll also find archives of the libertarian socialist group Solidarity and council communist groups Subversion and Wildcat. Both Subversion and Wildcat were predominantly based in Manchester in the 80s and 90s.