Anarchist Communist Federation

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The Anarchist Communist Federation had its genesis in the Social Revolutionary Anarchist Federation gathering of 1977. There a group called the Anarchist Communist Tendency formed, which in 1978 would change its name to the Anarchist Communist Federation (ACF).

The ACF was made up of many affinity groups across Canada and the USA, examples being the Libertarian Workers Group in New York City and Bread and Roses in San Francisco. The ACF structure was based on the ideas of Peter Kropotkin and emphasized local autonomy accompanied by federal unity. The ACF published a newspaper, the North American Anarchist.

By 1981, arguments within the ACF over various issues of workplace vs. community organizing, working with the IWW vs. starting a specifically anarchist worker organization. These disagreements led to those wishing to remain outside the IWW- Libertarian Workers Group, Bread and Roses and the groups in Ontario- to leave the federation, taking the North American Anarchist with them, renaming it Strike. Most of the American groups went on to form the Workers Solidarity Alliance. Strike continued as an independant anarchist monthly for a number of years.

With little reason to exist outside of their IWW activities, the remaining members of the ACF dissolved within a year.