Alternative libertaire

The organization identifies with the revolutionary workers' movement drawn from the split in the First International (the International Workingmens' Association) in 1872. This was in opposition to the Marxists, whom Mikhail Bakunin regarded as authoritarian.Alexandre Skirda / translation by Sharkey, P. (trans) (2001) Facing the Enemy: A History of Anarchist Organisation from Proudhon to May 1968, Oakland: AK Press.

Alternative Libertaire's practical and ideological background has been summed up by the organisation as continuing from the following groups:{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}

• Bakunin and his supporters within the First International.
• The revolutionary syndicalists of the French CGT before 1914.
• The Makhnovists, and the Organizational Platform{{cite web|url=http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=1000|title=Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists (Draft)|work=anarkismo.net}}{{Primary source inline|date=May 2025}} proposed by the exiled Russian anarchists.
• Spanish anarcho-syndicalism, the Spanish Revolution 1936 and in particular the actions of the Friends of Durruti group.
• The Libertarian Communist Federation (FCL) and the Libertarian Communist Manifesto by Georges Fontenis in 1954.
• The Union des travailleurs communistes libertaires (Libertarian Communist Workers’ Union, UTCL), the works of Daniel Guérin and the Libertarian Communist Project of 1986.

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Today Alternative Libertaire is developing its political action on two fronts:{{cite web|url=http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/spip.php?rubrique23|title=Alternative libertaire|work=alternativelibertaire.org|date=27 January 2023 }}{{Primary source inline|date=May 2025}}

• The building of an alliance of social movements, to give political weight to the politics of the people against the institutionalised left.
• The building of a libertarian communist current which fuels and is fuelled by the activities of the social movements.

AL militants are particularly involved in struggles in the workplace and in the unions, in the CGT or in SUD (sometimes in the CNT), in the fight against unemployment, for the right to housing, in the environmental movement and in the fight against patriarchy. Alternative Libertaire endeavours to link these conflicts in today’s society with the perspective of a break with capitalism and the state.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}

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