l'Internationale des Fédérations Anarchistes, IFA, - the International of Anarchist Federations, IAF, - Southern sections
The Southern IFA Federations *)
Chomsky's anarchism
Noam Chomsky was nominated to the BLACK STAR Prize by cand. oecon. polit. libertar. Anna Quist which also has proposed him for the Nobel Peace Prize. The BLACK STAR was published 28.10.2025.
The BLACK STAR Prize is awarded by the International Anarchist Tribunal. The mandate of the International Anarchist Tribunal is presented here.
In 1986, at the fourth IFA-congresses in the north, and in the south where NAC, The Northern Anarchist Confederation's four federations participated by phone, the southern IFA-federations, the French, Spanish and Italian turned leftwards at the economical political map due to leftist-marxist tendencies. They thus left the anarchist quadrant on the economical-political map. The three southern IFA-federationas turned out to be "the children of Marx". (The Bulgarian Anarchist Union, UAB, was not a federation, but an authoritarian group, and thus not recognized by the International Anarchist Tribunal as a member of IAF-IFA.) This leftist-authoritarian position of the southern IFA federations made it necessary to reorganize the IFA to save it from the marxist- leftist positions. Thus, the majority of the IFA federations, the four northern, decided to reorganize the IFA, and started the Anarchist biennials, a series of international anarchist congresses, the first one in 1990.
The three southern IFA-federations and their secretariate were suspended by the majority of the federations, the four Northern, and the International Anarchist Tribunal, see http://www.anarchy.no/aptm.html , and the resolutions of their later congresses were disallowed, included the one in 1990. The suspension and the disallowance of their congresses will remain until the marxist-authoritarian tendency of the southern IFA-federations is removed. So far this has not happened. Thus the resolutions from their congresses from the fifth in 1990 and later are disallowed, due to significant marxist authoritarian tendencies. ANORG is now not only a Northern confederation, but global = AI/IFA. See (Click on): Links. The Website of the southern IFA-federations is (Click on): Southern IFA. The Anarchist International AI/IFA, a wider global network than the IFA-federations, was established in 1988, and officially recognized at the AI/IFA congress, the 5. Anarchist Biennial, in 1998.
BROWN CARDS
Post-mortem Sergei Nechaev a.k.a. Sergey Nechayev, François Claudius Koenigstein, known as Ravachol, the criminal Bonnot mob, Émile Henry, Leon Frank Czolgosz and other terrorists falsely posing as 'anarchists' (i.e. provocateurs), in the past have got the Brown Card, and have thus got their expulsion from the anarchist movement post mortem. These terrorist ochlarchists falsely posing as anarchists have really never been a part of the anarchist movement, but been ochlarchist infiltrators to the movement.
It is an historical mistake to include these persons in the anarchist movement, as they were ochlarchist infiltrators - not really anarchists. They were ordinary criminals, ochlarchist terrorists posing as "anarchists", and acting according to the authoritarian travesty of 'anarchy', but not anarchism. This however happened long time ago, in a time with heavy repression against the anarchist international, with a lot of infiltration by a) police provokers, who did a lot to discredit the anarchist movement, and b) a red&brown Leninistoid group called Blanquists, etc. The Blanquists etc. were RAF (Baader Meinhof, Maoist Marxist-Leninists) type of groups at that time, and they also managed to use a few naive persons as "useful" idiots. This is understandable, but not defendable. Terrorism is not a part of real anarchism. 'Propaganda of the deed' is specific political action meant to be exemplary to others, and has as such nothing to do with terrorism.
Both Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin and Malatesta condemned the terrorism. Proudhon denounced terrorism i.e. the Blanquists, Bakunin denounced Nechaev, see IJA 4 (31), Kropotkin wrote: "a structure based on centuries of history cannot be destroyed with a few kilos of explosives." Malatesta wrote: "He who throws a bomb and kills a pedestrian, declares that as a victim of society he has rebelled against society. But could not the poor victim object: 'Am I society?' ", etc. As far as IAT knows neither Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin nor Malatesta urged terrorism or participated in terrorism themselves.
The terrorist ochlarchists, ultra-authoritarian infiltrators to the Anarchist Movement, i.e. provocateurs, mainly leftist, marxist, communist type of infiltrators, started with the Blanquists, Nechayevists, Ravacholists, Mostists, Henryists, the Bonnotists, Czolgosists, etc. and continue today in the Libcomists, the Risupists, Antifa/AFA, 'Anarquismo', 'A-Infos', Blitz, Black Bloc and similar, mainly controlled by Trotskyites and other communists, say, marxist-leninists (ml). Their propaganda is easy to spot, they are "engaged in struggles against capitalism and other forms of oppression" (Risup.net), but not 1. against THE STATE (vertical organization broadly defined, including ochlarchy), and they are not 2. for horizontal organization (liberal social-democracy = real democracy = libertaire = anarchist), as 3. the Anarchists are 100%. They all, the provocateurs & ochlarchist terrorists, have got BROWN CARDS by IAT-APT and are thus expulsed from the Anarchist Movement. ALL OF THEM!
De facto: ochlarchy (mob rule including terrorism) and anarchy & ochlarchists (including terrorists) and anarchists are opposites as peace and war. To say de facto ochlarchy is anarchy and ochlarchists (including terrorists) are anarchists are lies equal to peace is war (remember Big Brother's Ministry of Truth in Orwell's "1984"). This is proven as a practically certain truth beyond reasonable doubt in the 3 resolutions in the Preamble to IAT-APT International Branch. The proof speaks for itself, but more than 50 000 anarchists confirming the validity of the proof in 2010 add weight behind.
That terrorists sailing under false anarchist flag wrongly have been labeled as anarchists historically, mainly in authoritarian Orwellian Big Brother newspeak lying historical works, shall of course not set precedence for now and in the future. Faults of the past should never be repeated. And history books and similar should be corrected so the newspeak lies are removed. And similar faults of today in the newsmedia broadly defined should of course also be corrected. To promote such a policy the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to persons and organizations breaking the Oslo Convention in this connection.
NRK-Dagsrevyen 22.05.2004 is wrongly mixing up a terrorist ochlarchist in Spain in the past with an anarchist, and thus gets a Brown Card. 01.06.2012 Lars Gule in the Breivik case falsely calls Émile Henry 'anarchist' and gets a Brown Card.
Frank Aarebrot at NRK 2 28.10.2016 is mixing up a terrorist ochlarchist in USA (probably Czolgos) with an anarchist, and thus gets a Brown Card. Wikipedia is also falsely calling Czolgosz an anarchist and gets a Brown Card.
IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to Klassekampen (25.02.2017), Øyvind Strømmen and Nikolai Sitter, for falsely putting blame for terrorism on Bakunin, based on Sitter's book "Terrorismens historie - Attentat og terrorbekjempelse fra Bakunin til IS".
14.06.2017 at ABC-Nyheter, Nick Sitter, a.k.a. Nikolai Sitter, continues his crusade against anarchism, falsely calling the ochlarchist terrorism in the past "anarkistisk terrorisme" - anarchist terrorism. He is thus breaking the Oslo Convention and IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to Nick Sitter and ABC-Nyheter, as well as Klassekampen and BI Business Review, where Sitter's article was earlier published.
07.09.2018 professor in political science Bernt Hagtvedt in a lecture about fascism at NRK 2 is mixing up terrorist ochlarchists with anarchists in the past, declaring "Anarkister skjøt villig vekk...", and thus gets a Brown Card. NRK 2 also gets a Brown Card.
09.10.2025. In the article: «What is Antifa and why is President Trump targeting it?», see: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ced5gqn0p6jo, BBC presents the following lie: "Antifa cells tend to form organically, both online and offline, and its activists include anarchists, communists and hardline socialists who broadly share anti-government, anti-capitalist, pro-LGBTQ and pro-immigration views. But Antifa is sometimes used as a catch-all term by conservative politicians and commentators to include other liberal and left-wing groups that they politically object to."This is a clear violation of the Oslo Convention and the International Anarchist Tribunal hands out a Brown Card to BBC for lying about that there are anarchists in the state communist led ANTIFA/AFA. There are no anarchists in ANTIFA/AFA only provocateurs & ochlarchists falsely posing as “anarchists”. We condemn ANTIFA/AFA. Antifa is a gift to the far right and state repression.
See http://www.anarchy.no/ija133.html for more information.
PS. Noam Chomsky: Antifa is a gift to the far right and US state repression. Exclusive: Renowned academic says antifascist movement [Antifa] has initiated the use of force in ways that are ‘completely unacceptable’.
Source: The Independent. 13.12.2017.
PPS. Donald Trump needs to stop lying about ANTIFA/AFA being anarchists and creating anarchy. ANTIFA/AFA is led by state communists and is creating ochlarchy including chaos.
Ochlarchy is the opposite of anarchy, i.e. real democracy!!! This is the truth!!! See also BROWN CARDS to Donald Trump below [in https://www.anarchy.no/apt.html] 11.10.2024
BROWN CARDS TO JAMAL HANNAH, PETER BACH, ROBERT WOGATZE, PER BYLUND, ZAZABAN, MILOS RANCIC A.K.A. MILLOSH AND THE SOUTHERN IFA-IAF FEDERATIONS
THE BROWN CARDS MEAN JAMAL HANNAH, PETER BACH, ROBERT WOGATZE, PER BYLUND, ZAZABAN AND MILOS RANCIC A.K.A. MILLOSH ARE EXPULSED FROM THE ANARCHIST MOVEMENT AND THAT THE SOUTHERN IFA-IAF FEDERATIONS ARE SUSPENDED*)
According to the Oslo Convention, a Brown Card in general means expulsion from the anarchist movemement. This is in this case valid for Jamal Hannah, Peter Bach and Robert Wogatze, plus Zazaban, Per Bylund and Milos Rancic a.k.a. Millosh. However we see hope for the Southern IFA-IAF federations*) in the long run, so as a special case they are not expulsed, but suspended, i.e. a disallowance and rejection of their congresses will remain as long as the marxist leftist/collectivist/communist and ochlarchical tendency is dominant.
See http://www.anarchy.no/browncard.html
*) These Brown Cards are handed out to all the Southern IFA/IAF-federations except the Spanish FAI and the Argentinian FLA, that are considered less authoritarian. Also the British and Anglophone Anarchist Federation http://www.anarchy.no/afb.html, that is only partly a Southern IFA/IAF federation, has not got a Brown Card.
*) This is all the federations claiming to be IFA-members in the south and that also are acknowledged by the International Anarchist Tribunal. There are a few other groups claiming to be IFA-affiliates, but they are not acknowledged, and are thus not members of IFA/IAF. It must be mentioned that the group of FAF in Belgium has been rather authoritarian and oclarchical, so FAF's policy is a more than a bit doubtful. Neither the group in Belgium nor the few other federations/groups in the south claiming to be IFA members except the ones mentioned above, are at the moment acknowledged as IFA members by the IAT, because they are too marxian and ochlarchical, and have thus got expulsing and expelling Brown Cards from the IAT. Thus, these groups/federations are not real IFA-members.
They are too leftist/collectivist/communist and marxist lubbeist to be real anarchist. Independent of this there is however a general dialog, also with these groups, as well as other selfstyled groups/federations claiming to be anarchist world wide, via the International Journal of Anarchism's network of the Anarchist International (= ANORG, The ANarchists' ORGanization, GLOBAL). A lot of disinformation about IFA-IAF-AI exist on Internet, and are put up by persons with authoritarian agendas. A warning must be given about misleading unofficial IFA/IAF web-sites on Internet that, say, wrongly lacks the acknowledged northern IFA federations and include some not acknowledged southern federations/groups. These unofficial sites are easy to see are fake and false because they are lacking the original IFA-logo and has no statement of being official IFA-sites.
Ochlarchy means mob rule broadly defined, see "ANARCHISTS AGAINST OCHLARCHY (MOB RULE) AND OCHLARCHIST INFILTRATION", at http://www.anarchy.no/ija133.html,"ANARCHY VS OCHLARCHY (MOB RULE) AND ANARCHISTS VS OCHLARCHISTS" at http://www.anarchy.no/ija136.html and the official website of the INTERNATIONAL ANARCHIST TRIBUNAL (IAT) at http://www.anarchy.no/iat.html. The Southern IFA/IAF federations, except FLA and the Spanish FAI, have got a Brown Card from IAT, see http://www.anarchy.no/browncard.html for marxist and ochlarchical behaviour, i.e. they have a.o.t. been spreading defamation, libel, lies and smearstories against the Northern Anarchist Confederation (NAC) - Anarkistenes organisasjon i Norden (ANORG), later GLOBAL, and the Anarchist International in general, www.anarchy.no & http://www.anarchy.no/ai.html. The Anarchist International AI/IFA, the wider global network than the IFA-federations, was established in 1988, and officially recognized at the AI/IFA congress, the 5. Anarchist Biennial, in 1998.
The British and Anglophone Anarchist Federation is only partially a Southern IFA-IAF federations, and has thus not got a Brown Card. According to the Oslo Convention, a Brown Card means expulsion from the anarchist movemement. In general the Brown Card means expulsion from the anarchist movement. However we see hope for the Southern IFA-IAF federations in the long run, so as a special case they are not expulsed, but suspended, and a disallowance and rejection of their congresses will remain as long as the marxist leftist/collectivist/communist and ochlarchical tendency is dominant.
PS. NB! The term "Anarcho-communists" has two different interpretations, namely 1. Communist Anarchism, recognized by IFA/AI & IAT as a valid anarchist trend, and 2. So called "libertarian" Communism, i.e. a form of leftist Marxian Communism, see Economic-political Map, and thus not Anarchism, and which is not recognized by AI/IFA and IAT as an anarchist trend.
G. Johnson for IFA/IAF
In 1986, at the fourth IFA-congresses in the north, and in the south where NAC, The Northern Anarchist Confederation's four federations participated by phone, the southern IFA-federations, the French, Spanish and Italian turned leftwards at the economical political map due to leftist-marxist tendencies. They thus left the anarchist quadrant on the economical-political map. The three southern IFA-federationas turned out to be "the children of Marx". (The Bulgarian Anarchist Union, UAB, was not a federation, but an authoritarian group, and thus not recognized by the International Anarchist Tribunal as a member of IAF-IFA.) This leftist-authoritarian position of the southern IFA federations made it necessary to reorganize the IFA to save it from the marxist- leftist positions. Thus, the majority of the IFA federations, the four northern, decided to reorganize the IFA, and started the Anarchist biennials, a series of international anarchist congresses, the first one in 1990.
The three southern IFA-federations and their secretariate were suspended by the majority of the federations, the four Northern, and the International Anarchist Tribunal, see http://www.anarchy.no/aptm.html , and the resolutions of their later congresses were disallowed, included the one in 1990. The suspension and the disallowance of their congresses will remain until the marxist-authoritarian tendency of the southern IFA-federations is removed. So far this has not happened. Thus the resolutions from their congresses from the fifth in 1990 and later are disallowed, due to significant marxist authoritarian tendencies.
The latest statement (2007) from the Southern IFA/IAF federations against the Anarchist International is a.o.t: " The main problem is some lunatic in Norway ". Thus they state that people that do not agree with them are lunatic, just like in the Soviet Union. This is an example of authoritarian ruling technique, i.e. ochlarchy. This only confirms that the Southern IFA/IAF federations are marxistoid leftist/communist/collectivist on the economical-political map, and not anarchist. We can assure you that the about twenty persons working parttime for the AI/IFA-secretariate in Oslo are not lunatic, and neither are the rest of the Anarchist International. This is an example of authoritarian ruling technique, i.e. ochlarchy
The Anarchist International is a broader network than the IFA/IAF-sections in the north and south. The Anarchist International is a global, undogmatic, free thinking, nonsectarian modern anarchist international, with sections for anarchoindividualist, anarchocollectivist, social individualist and mutualist anarchist and anarchocommunist as well as green/ecoanarchist, anarchosyndicalist and anarchafeminist anarchists. The Anarchist International has about 2000 networkmembers/subscribers, groups and individuals, of which about 500 are in the northern sections of IFA/IAF, i.e. counted without the Southern IFA/IAF-federations.
The Southern IFA/IAF is a dogmatic, sectarian communist "anarchist", leftist marxistoid organization with little interest for the Anarchist International. The Southern IFA/IAF is more communist than anarchist, i.e. collectivist on the economical political map. Outside the anarchist quadrant on the map, far left in the marxist quadrant. It is proven significantly that the Southern IFA-federations are marxist, and have no right to call themselves anarchist, see http://www.anarchy.no/ija338.html. The Southern IFA-IAF federations are also spreading lies and smearstories about the Anarchist Internationa. This is an another example of ochlarchy. These lies are completely rejected and turned down at the document http://www.anarchy.no/anorgwarning.html. The Southern IFA-federations have thus got a Brown Card from IAT. See http://www.anarchy.no/browncard.html.
Se also "About the northern and southern sections of IFA-IAF and the Anarchist International AI-IFA-IAF" http://www.anarchy.no/ija235.html,
The false new "IFA"-logo, similar to the trotskyist 4th International, that was introduced by some of the Southern federations, after the majority of the IFA-federations reorganized the IFA in 1986 and copyrighted the original IFA-logo.
**) The Anarchist Federation, British and Anglophone, is a confederation with IFA-sections, i.e. national federations in each country, and thus fulfilling the principle of IFA with "one federation in each country". It is partly in the North, say Canada, and partly in the South, say Mauritius. It is thus an associated member of the Northern Anarchist Confederation, as well as affiliated to IFA/IAF and AI. The Anarchist Federation, as a loose network, has a long history of cooperation with the IFA-IAF secretariate in Oslo, a.o.t. via the Anarchist Black Cross. The Anarchist Federation is rooted back to the British Anarchist Federation that was reorganized in the early 1960s. At that time this was a broad based federation including both anarchists and semilibertarian marxists and liberals, so it hardly deserved the name anarchist.
Mainly some of the semilibertarian marxists, sometimes wrongly called "anarcho-marxists", related to this federation, among them Stuart Christie and Albert Meltzer, proposed to do political prisoner support at one of the yearly meetings of the British Anarchist Federation, and soon after a preliminary "Black Cross" appeared, however not called anarchist. The Anarchist Federation, British and Anglophone, works closely connected to the Anarchist Black Cross. The organ of AF, Freedom, now Freedom Online, the British anarchist paper, in October 1994 published the Oslo Convention of 1990 against mob rule etc. related to an ochlarchical meeting in October 1994 arranged by authoritarian chaos-punks, marxians and mad fogarchs posing as "anarchists", called "Anarchy in the UK", with magical "Levitation of parliament" as the main "direct action". Vernon Richards et.al.of Freedom and Freedom Press denounced this meeting, together with the IAF/IFA.