Northeastern Federation of Anarcho-communists

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NEFAC (the North Eastern Federation of Anarchist Communists or the Fédération des Communistes Libertaires du Nord-Est) is an anarchist communist organization, associated with International Libertarian Solidarity and consisting of active member collectives in Canada and the United States. This is one of the largest anarchist societies in North America. The group is dedicated to the abolition of capitalism and the State. Some supporters of NEFAC were members of the anarchist group Love and Rage and joined NEFAC several years after Love and Rage's demise.

1 History
2 Structure
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] History

NEFAC unofficially began over the summer of 1999 as a loose network between English-speaking anarcho-communists from New England and French-speaking anarcho-communists from Quebec who shared a mutual dissatisfaction with the state of the anarchist movement on both sides of the border. In April 2000, NEFAC was officially launched at a conference in Boston, MA.

[edit] Structure

NEFAC is organized around the "platformist" principles of theoretical coherence, tactical unity, collective responsibility and federalism. As a result the organization is a directly democratic and federalist organization. It is also a membership organization, with dues and certain obligations to one and other. The group has a constitution which members are expected to abide by it.

Major decisions are made at bi-annual conferences where every member has one vote and no one has any more say than anyone else. Smaller decisions in between conferences are made by a Federal Council, a delegate council composed of representatives from each NEFAC member collective (supporter collectives are entitled an indicative vote). All delegates are directly accountable to their respective collective. Open debate is encouraged; there is no party line or party bosses. NEFAC members organize in such a way to reflect the kind of society members are fighting for: a world that is democratic, participatory, accountable, and anti-authoritarian.