Ideology
The organization identifies with the revolutionary workers' movement drawn from the split in the First International (the International Workingmens' Association) in 1872. This was in opposition to the Marxists, whom Mikhail Bakunin regarded as authoritarian.
Alternative Libertaire's practical and ideological background has been summed up by the organisation as continuing from the following groups:
- Bakunin and his supporters within the First International.
- The revolutionary syndicalists of the French CGT before 1914.
- The Makhnovists, and the Organizational Platform proposed by the exiled Russian anarchists.
- Spanish anarcho-syndicalism, the Spanish Revolution 1936 and in particular the actions of the Friends of Durruti group.
- The Libertarian Communist Federation (FCL) and the Libertarian Communist Manifesto by Georges Fontenis in 1954.
- The Union des travailleurs communistes libertaires (Libertarian Communist Workers’ Union, UTCL), the works of Daniel Guérin and the Libertarian Communist Project of 1986.
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