Anarchic Agreements: A Field Guide to Building Groups and Coalitions

A new world is possible and not just in our hearts. Anarchic Agreements is a quintessential field guide for the revolution, answering the practical questions often left out of works of political theory and philosophy.

How do leaderless groups organize? How might they create constitutions, balance power and write protocols? How do group cultures and institutions maintain coalitions? This urgent and inspiring how-to is the product of more than twenty years of research. Designed explicitly for everyday use, it contains lived examples, illustrations throughout, and text from current horizontally organized constitutions. These documents illustrate the never-ending process of developing community and keeping collaborations alive in the fairest ways possible. Written by dedicated anarchist scholars and organizers, and based on the widely popular Anarchic Agreements pamphlet series, this book facilitates grassroots activism and provides methods to improve and streamline decision making. It is an inspiring celebration of the novel, complex and flexible constitutions Anarchists have created over time. This book shows how to realize another world, collectively without domination, while leaving the future open to infinite other possibilities.

Ruth Kinna teaches at Loughborough University, UK. She has published numerous books on anarchism, historical and contemporary, and is a contributor to PM Press’s Mutual Aid: An Illuminated Factor of Evolution. She is co-editor of Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red, also published by PM Press.

Alex Prichard teaches International Relations at the University of Exeter (UK). He has published widely on international political thought of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, most recently a new translation of his 1861 work War and Peace. He is also the author of the new edition of the Oxford University Press’s Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction.

Thomas Swann teaches philosophy at Loughborough University, UK. His book Anarchist Cybernetics: Control and Communication in Radical Politics was published in 2020. He is also co-editor of Anarchism, Organization and Management, a book that introduces anarchism to business school students.

Seeds for Change is a workers' co-op of experienced campaigners and co-operators. It offers training, facilitation, online resources and other support for campaigns, community groups and co-operatives. It provides free-to-use resources on campaigning, facilitation and workshops. They are the author of A Consensus Handbook: Co-operative decision-making for activists, co-ops and communities.