
While this group has opened itself to issues beyond the traditional anarchist focus on the state and corporate forms, to say that its practice is affinity-based would be to do an injustice to its ‘platform’, which calls for ‘theoretical coherence’ and ‘tactical unity’ and is guided by a twice-yearly conference which forms the ‘sovereign body’ of the organization. It also displays a strong traditional marxist element -- similar to that which persists in autonomist Marxism -- in its call for ‘a social, political and cultural revolution where the oppressed classes lead the struggle to the end’. (See the NEFAC website at <http://makhno.nefac.net/node/544>). These elements of hegemonic theory and practice likely arise from the fact that the platformist project emerged out of the duplicitous defeat of the Ukrainian anarchists by the Russian marxists. Despite these limitations, NEFAC represents an interesting hybrid form of anarchist communism, displaying signs of affinity and groundless solidarity while retaining elements of a hegemonic, class-centric orientation.