The Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists

Delo Truda - 1926

(Makhno, Mett, Arshinov, Valevski, Linski)

In 1926 a group of exiled Russian anarchists in France, the Delo Truda (Workers' Cause) group, published this pamphlet. It arose not from some academic study but from their experiences in the 1917 Russian revolution. They had taken part in the overthrow of the old ruling class, had been part of the blossoming of workers' and peasants' self-management, had shared the widespread optimism about a new world of socialism and freedom . . . and had seen its bloody replacement by State Capitalism and the Bolshevik Party dictatorship.

• Preface to the WSM edition, by Alan MacSimóin (1989)
• Historical Introduction, by Nick Heath (1989)
• Preface and Introduction to the Italian edition, by Organizzazione Rivoluzionaria Anarchica (1977)
• Historical background to the Organizational Platform, by Barikád Kollektíva (2005)
• About the Platform, by Barikád Kollektíva (2005)
• Introduction 
• General Section 
• Constructive Section 
• Organizational Section

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Now also available as a PDF file for you to print out and distribute. WSM Version                                                   ZACF Version

First published France 1926
First Irish edition published by the Workers Solidarity Movement.
This electronic edition published 1997

Source: Workers Solidarity Movement

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