A-Infos (en) US, BRRN: The Platform at 100: Voices of Organized Anarchists Around the Globe (Vol. 2) I. (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

To mark the 100 year anniversary of the publication of the Platform of 
Libertarian Communists (Draft), we are excited to present the second in 
a three volume series of interviews discussing the document's lasting 
legacy with anarchist organizations around the world. ---- The Platform, 
as it is often called by shorthand, was written by a group of Russian 
and Ukranian anarchists exiled in the wake of the Bolshevik seizure of 
state power during the 1917 October Revolution. The document was meant 
to be a corrective to the prevailing anarchist orthodoxy of the time, 
which its authors-including Nestor Makhno and other active participants 
in the revolution-believed had led to their defeat.

Note: Originally we had planned to release all of the interviews in two 
volumes. However, the number of organizations who requested to 
participate and the length of the content requires us to break the 
interviews up into three volumes.

The first volume covered organizations in the Americas, this second 
volume covers organizations in Europe, and the third will cover 
organizations in Asia and Oceania.

This project is a collaboration between the External Education and 
International Relations Committees of Black Rose/Rosa Negra (BRRN).

Table of Contents
Introduction
Union Communiste Libertaire (France)
https://www.blackrosefed.org/platform-interviews-vol-2/#union-communiste-libertaire-france
Die Plattform (Germany)
https://www.blackrosefed.org/platform-interviews-vol-2/#die-plattform-germany
Anarchist Communist Group (UK)
https://www.blackrosefed.org/platform-interviews-vol-2/#anarchist-communist-group-uk
Midada (Switzerland)
https://www.blackrosefed.org/platform-interviews-vol-2/#midada-switzerland
Liza (Spain)
https://www.blackrosefed.org/platform-interviews-vol-2/#liza-spain
Embat (Catalonia)
https://www.blackrosefed.org/platform-interviews-vol-2/#embat-catalonia
Download the Pamphlet Version
https://www.blackrosefed.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Platform_100_volume2.pdf

Introduction
2026 marks 100 years since the publication of the Organizational 
Platform of the Libertarian Communists (Draft) by the Dielo Truda 
(Workers' Cause) group. The document, written by Russian, Belarusian, 
and Ukrainian anarchists exiled in the wake of the 1917 October 
Revolution in Russia, is known for the sharp revisions it applied to the 
contemporary anarchist orthodoxy. Though criticized by some of the most 
prominent anarchist thinkers of the period, the Platform (as it has come 
to be known by shorthand) represents a first serious attempt to grapple 
with organizational and strategic shortcomings in the anarchist 
movement, exposed by its direct involvement in a large-scale 
revolutionary upheaval.

While it is true that the Dielo Truda group set a course distinct from 
many of their anarchist contemporaries, the novelty of the principles 
put forward in the Platform is often overstated. The central concern of 
the Platform's authors was a more effective coordination of anarchist 
militants aiming to intervene in social movements. The Dielo Truda group 
arrived at the conclusion that this could only be achieved through the 
construction of a revolutionary political organization. Indeed, this 
same insight was achieved by Mikhail Bakunin more than half a century 
earlier as he helped to found the Alliance of Socialist Democracy, which 
was later dissolved into the International Workingmen's Association 
(also known as the First International). In other words, far from being 
a recent invention, the anarchist embrace of formal revolutionary 
political organization can be traced back to the movement's origins.

Today we recognize this insight as 'organizational dualism,' a phrase 
that refers to the necessity of, and reciprocal relationship between, 
revolutionary political organization and mass organization. While 
organizations interviewed in this survey may identify to a greater or 
lesser extent with a particular historical framework-most commonly 
platformism or especifismo-all hold the organizational dualist principle 
as a central tenet.

https://www.blackrosefed.org/platform-interviews-vol-2/
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