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Platformism is a tendency within the wider anarchist movement which shares an affinity with organising in the tradition of Nestor Makhno's Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists. The Platform came from the experiences of Russian anarchists in the 1917 October Revolution, which lead eventually to the victory of Bolshevik party dictatorship rather than workers' and peasants' self-management. The Platform attempts to explain and address the failure of the anarchist movement during the Russian Revolution. As a controversial pamphlet, the Platform drew both praise and criticism from anarchists worldwide.

"The Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists" was written in 1926 by the Dielo Trouda (Workers' Cause) group, a group of exiled Russian anarchists in France. The pamphlet is an analysis of the basic anarchist beliefs, a vision of an anarchist society, and recommendations as to how an anarchist organization should be structured. The four main principles by which an anarchist organization should operate, according to the Platform, are ideological unity, tactical unity, collective action and discipline, and federalism.

External links

• Anarkismo.net an international and multilingual platformist news and discussion site
• A Guide to the Platform
• Anarchism And The Platformist Tradition - NEFAC articles on historical and contemporary platformism