Common Struggle

Common Struggle – Libertarian Communist Federation or Lucha Común – Federación Comunista Libertaria (formerly the North Eastern Federation of Anarchist Communists (NEFAC) or the Fédération des Communistes Libertaires du Nord-Est) is a platformist anarchist communist organization based in the northeast region of the United States. NEFAC was officially launched at a congress held in Boston, Massachusetts over the weekend of April 7–9, 2000, following months of discussion between former Atlantic Anarchist Circle affiliates and ex-Love and Rage members in the United States and ex-members of the Demanarchie newspaper collective in Quebec City. Originally founded as a bi-lingual French and English-speaking federation with member and supporter groups in the northeast of the United States, southern Ontario and the Quebec province, the organization later split up in 2008. The Québécoise membership reformed as the Union Communiste Libertaire (UCL) and the U.S. membership retained the name NEFAC, before changing its name to Common Struggle in 2011. Former members based in Toronto went on to help found Common Cause, an Ontario-based platformist organization.

Common Struggle is affiliated with the international platformist website project Anarkismo, and was associated with the now defunct International Libertarian Solidarity.

The Northeastern Anarchist is the official English language publication of Common Struggle.

Common Struggle's creation was inspired by the Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists. The platform was created by Nestor Makhno as well as other anarchist exiles in 1926.

See also

• Industrial Workers of the World

Interviews & Articles Concerning NEFAC/Common Struggle Collectives

• The Rise and Fall of The Green Mountain Anarchist Collective, 2015.
• The History of NEFAC in Quebec-City (2001-2008), 2011.
• Interview with Roundhouse Collective of NEFAC, Left Turn, 2002.

Essays, Articles, Interviews, & Position Papers by NEFAC Collectives and Common Struggle

• Green Mountain Communes: The Making of a Peoples’ Vermont, By David Van Deusen of The Green Mountain Anarchist Collective (NEFAC-VT), Catamount Tavern News Service, 2008.
• Vermont Secession: The Extreme Right, And Democracy, By David Van Deusen of The Green Mountain Anarchist Collective (NEFAC-VT), Catamount Tavern News Service, 2007.
• When The Levee Breaks: Katrina and New Orleans, By David Van Deusen of The Green Mountain Anarchist Collective (NEFAC-VT), Catamount Tavern News Service, 2005.
• Zapatistas take a road trip to build a united left platform, By David Van Deusen of The Green Mountain Anarchist Collective (NEFAC-VT), Catamount Tavern News Service, 2006.
• The French Connection: An Interview About the Spring Unrest in France, By David Van Deusen of The Green Mountain Anarchist Collective (NEFAC-VT), Catamount Tavern News Service, 2006.
• The 2008 Republican National Convention Riots & Protests: What is to be Learned?, By Will Dunbar of The Green Mountain Anarchist Collective (NEFAC-VT), Catamount Tavern News Service, 2008.
• Class Struggle In The Green Mountains: Vermont Workers' Center, By Lady Valance of The Green Mountain Anarchist Collective (NEFAC-VT), The Northeastern Anarchist, 2003.
• Union + Town Meeting = Democracy: The Montpelier Downtown Workers' Union, By The Green Mountain Anarchist Collective (NEFAC-VT), 2003.
• Montpelier Downtown Workers Union: Building Working Class Democracy One City at a Time, By David Van Deusen of the Green Mountain Anarchist Collective (NEFAC-VT), the Northeastern Anarchist, 2005.
• Dawn On The Farm: Interview With Vermont Farm Organizer Peter Sterling, By David Van Deusen of The Green Mountain Anarchist Collective (NEFAC-VT), Catamount Tavern News Service, 2006.
• Co-ops: The Changing Face of Employment in the Green Mountains, By David Van Deusen of The Green Mountain Anarchist Collective (NEFAC-VT), Z Magazine, 2006.
• Wolf Hunt In The Kingdom: Minutemen Draw Rain and Protesters to Derby Line, By David Van Deusen of the Green Mountain Anarchist Collective (NEFAC-VT), Catamount Tavern News Service, 2006.
• Why NEFAC? A Barricada Position Paper, by Barricada Collective (NEFAC-Boston), 2001.
• The Black Bloc in Quebec: An Analysis, By Nicolas, Barricada Collective (NEFAC-Boston), 2001.
• Has The Black Bloc Tactic Reached The End Of It’s Usefulness?, By Severino of The Barricada Collective (NEFAC-Boston), 2001.
• NEFAC Critiques Bring The Ruckus, By Wayne Price, Open City Anarchist Collective (NEFAC-NYC).
• The Intersections Of Anarchism And Community Organizing, By Dave of The Sabate Anarchist Collective (NEFAC-Boston), The Northeastern Anarchist Issue #4, Spring/Summer 2002.
• NEFAC Workplace Position Paper, By NEFAC, 2005.
• The Question Of The Revolutionary Anarchist Organization: A Common Struggle Position Paper, By NEFAC, 2002.
• Aims And Principles, By NEFAC, 2002.

Books & Pamphlets by NEFAC/Common Struggle Collectives/Members

• The Black Bloc Papers: An Anthology of Primary Texts From The North American Anarchist Black Bloc 1988-2005, by Xavier Massot & David Van Deusen of the Green Mountain Anarchist Collective (NEFAC-VT), Breaking Glass Press, 2010.
• A Communiqué on Tactics and Organization to the Black Bloc, from within the Black Bloc, by The Green Mountain Anarchist Collective (NEFAC-VT) & Columbus Anti-Racist Action, Black Clover Press, 2001.
• On The Question of Violence and Nonviolence In The Social Protest Movement, By David Van Deusen of the Green Mountain Anarchist Collective, Black Clover Press, 2002.
• Neither Washington Nor Stowe: Common Sense For The Working Vermonter, by David Van Deusen, Sean West, and the Green Mountain Anarchist Collective (NEFAC-VT), Catamount Tavern Press, 2004.
• Cyber Disobedience Re://Presenting Online Anarchy, By Jeff Shantz (and Jordan Tomblin), Zero Books, London, 2014, ISBN 978-1-78279-556-8.
• Commonist Tendencies: Mutual Aid Beyond Communism, By Jeff Shantz, punctum books, Brooklyn, NY, 2013, Open Access e-book & paperback ISBN 978-0615849782.
• Anarchy & Society: Reflections on Anarchist Sociology, By Jeff Shantz (with Dana Williams), Hardcover: Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2013, ISBN 9789004214965 and in paperback (Aug. 2014) from Haymarket Books (Chicago) ISBN 978-1608463848.
• Green Syndicalism: an alternative red/green vision, By Jeff Shantz, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-8156-3307-5.
• Crime, Punishment, Power: Sociological Explanations, By Jeff Shantz, Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing Co, 2012, ISBN 978-0-7575-9791-6.
• Active Anarchy: Political Practice in Contemporary Movements, By Jeff Shantz, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011, ISBN Cloth 0-7391-6613-1 / 978-0-7391-6613-0.
• Against All Authority: Anarchism and the Literary Imagination, By Jeff Shantz, Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic, 2011, ISBN 978-1-84540-237-2.
• Constructive Anarchy: Building Infrastructures of Resistance, By Jeff Shantz, London, UK: Ashgate, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4094-0402-6.
• The Abolition of the State: Anarchist and Marxist Perspectives, By Wayne Price, Author House, 2007, ISBN 1467092061 & 9781467092067.
• Marx's Economics for Anarchists: An Anarchist's Introduction to Marx's Critique for Political Economy, By Wayne Price, 2012.

Artwork & Music By Members of NEFAC and Common Struggle

• Putnigs (Explode Rock Band With Xavier Massot, Co-Founder of the Green Mountain Anarchist Collective, NEFAC-VT).
• Artwork By Xavier Massot, Co-Founder of the Green Mountain Anarchist Collective, NEFAC-VT.

References

External links

• Common Struggle website commonstruggle.org