Discussion about Platformism

The relevance of the Platform today

• Ashes to Phoenix
• Time to be constructive!
• What does the Platform offer to anarchists today
• The Platform: What's in it?
• Platformist groups today
• Kevin Doyle reviews Constructive Anarchism, which includes The Platform and some of the early responses to its proposals
• The Two Octobers by Piotr Archinov (1927) goes further into the problems of anarchism in the Russian Revolution
• The WSM introduction to Platformism and Ireland

On Revolutionary Organisation As Far As Organization Goes: We are Platformists by Nicolas Phebus (Quebec City-NEFAC) 2001
Generations of activists worked hard on the question of organization, and, for those of us who don't want to reinvent the wheel, it is useful to look at their analysis and proposals.

The Errico Malatesta and Nestor Makhno exchange on the Platform

• Malatesta: A project of anarchist organisation (October 1927)
  • Makhno: About the Platform (1928)
  • Arshinov: The Old and New in Anarchism (May 1928)
    • Malatesta: Reply to Nestor Makhno (December 1929)
      • Makhno wrote an additional reply which I hope to make available soon

Thanks to Iain <cllv13@ccsun.strath.ac.uk> for proof-reading the Malatesta/Makhno exchange