A-Infos (en) Britain, Anarchist Federation, AF's Organise! magazine Issue #70, EDITORIAL - Anarchism’s anti-nationalist & transnational imperative.

ORGANISE! for revolutionary anarchism - Magazine of the Anarchist Federation - 
Summer 2008 - Issue 70 ---- We present issue 70 of Organise! with an 
anti-fascist theme. This includes an analysis of the problem faced by anarchists 
aiming to fight fascism without falling into the trap of alliance with 
broad-based leftist and ‘democratic’ oppositions, followed by one on Antifa, the 
anarchist alternative to such alliances. Our approach to anti-fascism is 
important, not least because of the need to prevent the BNP’s plan to hold their 
Red, White and Blue festival in Nottinghamshire again this summer, in spite of 
welcome splits locally and nationally. To give an international perspective on 
the problem, we also include an article about the rise of ultranationalism in 
Bulgaria written by a Bulgarian member of AF. As a counterpoint to these 
worrying developments, four decades having passed since the heady days of 
rebellion in 1968 (see article on Paris '68 in this issue), the International of 
Anarchist Federations can only be relieved to be celebrating its own 40th year 
anniversary with news of meaningful dialogue between contemporary Bulgarian 
anarchists and Turkish autonomous groups.

Our ongoing series of articles about anarchist influences on art and culture 
covers Russian Constructivism in the 1920’s when anarchists expropriated Moscow 
mansions of the rich and turned them into ‘circles of proletarian art-printing, 
poetry and theatre’. Without wishing to encourage the conspiracy theorists, 
whilst at the same time living in a present day reality of state-sponsored 
torture and rendition flights, we also attempt to get to the bottom of 
governmental obsessions with psychological control such as CIA brainwashing and 
‘reprogrammming’ experiments.

A broad mix of reviews cover pamphlets on The Ranters and Kett’s Rebellion, a 
book of ‘three line novels’ by turn-of-the-last-century anarchist Félix Fénéon 
and Beer and Revolution about the German anarchist movement in New York City in 
the same period. We also have reviews of Where Vultures Feast about the 
environmental and human devastation wreaked by Shell in Nigeria, and the new 
look Black Flag magazine.

Last but not least, we review the excellent Eastern European & ex-Soviet bloc 
magazine Abolishing the Borders from Below, whose Berlin-based editors we were 
very pleased to meet at London’s anarchist bookfair last October. In turn, this 
summer, after running stalls at the New York City bookfair last year and most 
recently this March in Dublin, the AF has taken Organise! and our other 
publications from West to East, notably to the Zagreb anarchist bookfair in 
Croatia. This a very challenging time for anarchist organisations as we continue 
to bridge the international divides created by the World Wars and Cold War in 
the hope that the modern-day tide of nationalism can be resisted. To succeed we 
will need to work hard to relay an internationalist perspective amongst the 
working class at home, so that they are not convinced by the continual 
anti-immigrant rhetoric of both ultranationalist and so-called democratic 
governments.
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