Six Essays on collective organisation

These essays were originally published by Anarres Books, an Anarchist book collective in Melbourne between 1992 and 2008.

Essays from the AntiMass

Anti-Mass - Methods of organisation for collectives
An influential text, first published between 1970 and 1971 in San Francisco, on organising in small groups.
Collective Organisation
An essay on consensus decision making and structure in small groups and collectives by John Englart. Goes pretty deeply into how to organise a collective and some of the pitfalls to avoid.
Anti-Mass Collectives as Anarchist Organisation
An insight by Richard Fields into the strategy of the antimass, using examples of anarchist groups in Australia.
Aims and Objectives of the Anarchist Movement
Redfern Black Rose Anarchist Bookshop paper presented at the Anarchist Centenary conference in 1986. Looks at their collective practice and compares their practice with other task collectives.
The Question is not 'Organisation or no organisation?' but 'what sort of organisation?'
Paper delivered to the Anarcho-feminist Conference in Canberra in 1976, approaching the question of organisation from feminist practice and anarchist theory.

The Tyranny of Structurelessness
by Jo Freeman, was first printed by the women's liberation movement, USA, in 1970. It was reprinted in Berkeley Journal of Sociology in 1970 and later issued as a pamphlet by Agitprop in 1972. Republished many times since. An important work for recognising that structure in small groups is always present, and the need to formalise structure appropriate for the group's task.

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