We work on a federal system - each group, and individual members, come together to achieve commonly agreed objectives. The Federation is a membership organisation with membership fees and certain obligations, like the understanding and promotion of the Federation's politics and propaganda. We have a straightforward constitution and members are expected to abide by it. The Federation contains people who may describe themselves as Anarchists, Communists and Socialists. But what is more important than these labels is what people really think and what brings them together.

As we have said earlier, federalism is a method of organising that provides a large degree of freedom for groups and members within a broadly agreed set of politics and strategy. The only limit to this freedom is that what every individual does will have an effect on the rest of the members.

When the Federation as a whole takes decisions affecting the whole membership, it is done through the six monthly National Conferences. Every member has a vote, no-one has more say than anyone else - we are all equals, there are no "secret" leaders. Decisions may be hotly debated but at the end of the day the conference decision is final. Then the members are expected to comply, if they don't they are free to leave - we are not dreamy liberals! This is called tactical and theoretical unity, it's what binds us into an effective force, and stops us drifting off along different lines that might be in opposition to each other and end up with the Federation self-destructing.

The National Conferences are the prime decision-making bodies of the Federation. Between them the day to day business is handled by a regular meeting of a National Delegate Committee, members and groups either represent themselves or send delegates. All delegates are instantly recallable by those who they represent and are directly accountable to them. Nobody occupies a permanent post within the Federation, the positions such as secretaries, editors, organisers etc are open to election at least twice a year at the National Conferences. The Federation alos holds regular weekend schools for dicussion and education.

The Federation is divided into geographic regions where the groups and members are encouraged, and given the freedom, to form their own regional organisation with their own campaigns, conferences, bulletins etc. As you can see we put the emphasis on groups and members acting on their own steam as much as possible. The central control of the Left is neither politically healthy or indeed capable of waging the struggle required to help form a working class movement that will destroy capitalism.

Everywhere, as capitalism once again nose dives into another cycle of recession and unemployment, more and more working class people are fighting back. Fighting off the dead weight of Labourism and the Left, fighting against the Tories and the rest of the ruling class. We are one of the more dynamic, popular and ambitious groups in this fightback. We ask you to join the resistance and join with us! Don't sit on the sidelines - join the winning side!