I think you have some misconceptions.

Anarchists reject working with political parties because we want to see an end to parliamentary politics, seeing it as one of the root causes of peoples misery.

It will not be the Labour party, or the Anti-Nazi league/SWP that forces facism out of Burnley, it will be the communities themselves.

The 'direct democracy' that anarchists advocate is nothing like the extreme liberalism you assume it to be. I can't imagine any 'anarchist' arguing for a platform for facists, given the historical record of anarcho/facist relations!

Don't add unnecessarily to the pool of information that government agents use to divide political groups and turn activists against each other. they thrive on gossip about personal/politic tensions, rivalries and disagreements.

Not because they want to see one side beat another, the aim is to maintain the splits, so there is continual tension and disagreement. The more these are aired in public, or via web/fone which can be tapped or mail which can be opened, the easier it is to exploit a movement's problems and subvert its work.

The best way to reduce tensions and hostilities, and the urge to gossip about them, is to make time for open, honest discussion and resolution of 'personal' as well as 'political' issues.

Don't accept everything you hear or read. Check with the supposed source of the information before you act on it. Personal communication amongst estranged & conflicting activists, however difficult or painful, could have countered many FBI operations which proved effective in the 60s.

When you hear a negative, confusing or potentially harmful bit of information, don't pass it on. look at it in light of who gains from it- Protesters? or Police?

. this was a response to a comment that has since been taken off the post...

Whilst I want an end to parliamentary bourgeois democracy it is important to recognise that it is here that power currently lies. The Socialist Alliance is important in that it aggravates the State apparatus. If the State was left alone it would be able to consolidate its influence and the action of the masses would be futile. For instance, the fact that the Labour Party shunned the miners in 84/85 meant that Thatcher was able to direct the full force of the State against them. Whereas if Labour strongly opposed the Tories in parliament on this issue it would have been harder for them to act so forcefully against Scargill and the miners. The same applies to the current struggle.

These Anarchists don’t like to delete posts because it contradicts their fetish for freedom of expression at any price. There is, however, a noble exception to this rule for which they profess so much passion – this is when a post exposes the contradictions of their politics regarding the ANL. [And besides it leaves more room for slandering the SWP.]

An opportunity to diss the fash turned into another stale old Trot v @ sing-song. BOR-ring.

BTW, Noam Chomsky is, I believe, an anarchist. And, as it goes, I think he's tops. But he HAS argued in favour of platforms for fash to express their views; indeed, he's written an essay and allowed it to be used as an introduction to dsome French nazi's book (sorry- I forget the details.) On that account, I think he's wrong. Not evil, not the repository of all capitalist repression. Just wrong- in the same way as he's just RIGHT about a lot of other things.

Ooh, complicated this politics lark, ennit?

An opportunity to diss the fash turned into another stale old Trot v @ sing-song. BOR-ring.

BTW, Noam Chomsky is, I believe, an anarchist. And, as it goes, I think he's tops. But he HAS argued in favour of platforms for fash to express their views; indeed, he's written an essay and allowed it to be used as an introduction to dsome French nazi's book (sorry- I forget the details.) On that account, I think he's wrong. Not evil, not the repository of all capitalist repression. Just wrong- in the same way as he's just RIGHT about a lot of other things.

Ooh, complicated this politics lark, ennit?

An opportunity to diss the fash turned into another stale old Trot v @ sing-song. BOR-ring.

BTW, Noam Chomsky is, I believe, an anarchist. And, as it goes, I think he's tops. But he HAS argued in favour of platforms for fash to express their views; indeed, he's written an essay and allowed it to be used as an introduction to dsome French nazi's book (sorry- I forget the details.) On that account, I think he's wrong. Not evil, not the repository of all capitalist repression. Just wrong- in the same way as he's just RIGHT about a lot of other things.

Ooh, complicated this politics lark, ennit?