Radical Left Organisation and Networks of Communication

Abstract

Chapter Two discusses the organisational forms relevant to contemporary anarchist and radical left organisation. The chapter shows that anarchist organising is at the core of radical movements that have emerged in recent decades, presenting an image of radical left social movement organisation as networked and/or federated, in contrast to more hierarchical command and control structures common to traditional political parties and trade unions. Linked to this account of organisation is an understanding of communication, and the chapter offers a framework based on the idea of many-to-many communication to identify parallels and divergences between the organisational practices of radical left and anarchist groups and their communication practices.