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Platformism is a tendency within the wider anarchist movement which shares an affinity with organising in the tradition of Dielo Truda's Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists (Draft)^[1]. The Platform came from the experiences of Russian anarchists in the 1917 October Revolution, which led eventually to the victory of Bolshevik party dictatorship rather than workers' and peasants' self-management. The Platform attempts to explain and address the failure of the anarchist movement during the Russian Revolution. As a controversial pamphlet, the Platform drew both praise and criticism from anarchists worldwide.

The Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists (Draft) was written in 1926 by the Dielo Truda (Workers' Cause) group, a group of exiled Russian anarchists in France. The pamphlet is an analysis of the basic anarchist beliefs, a vision of an anarchist society, and recommendations as to how an anarchist organization should be structured. The four main principles by which an anarchist organization should operate, according to the Platform, are ideological unity, tactical unity, collective action and discipline, and federalism. Until recently the platform was known in English as the Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists as the English translation was based on Volines mis-translation of the original and not the Russian original.

It argues that "We have vital need of an organization which, having attracted most of the participants in the anarchist movement, would establish a common tactical and political line for anarchism and thereby serve as a guide for the whole movement."

Today there are platformist groups in many countries including the Workers Solidarity Movement in Ireland, NEFAC (North Eastern Federation of Anarchist Communists or the Fédération des Communistes Libertaires du Nord-Est) in the USA and Canada, the OCL in Chile, the OAE in Greece, AKI in Turkey, OSL in Argentina, the Federazione dei Comunisti Anarchici (FdCA) in Italy, the Coletivo pró Organização Anarquista em Goiás in Brazil, Grupo Qhispikay Llaqta in Peru, ACL in Mexico and ZACF in South Africa.

• Russian anarchism

• Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists (Draft) The most accurate translation of the platform in English
• A Guide to the Platform based on the older translation
• Anarkismo.net an international and multilingual platformist news and discussion site

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