From ‘The Alarm’, December 27, 1884, Chicago, edited by Albert R. Parsons
Organization, to be successful, must contain within it that element which is understood by the word coherency, and implies more than a mere bringing together of members. Organization, to be successful, must have a purpose in view as well as an object to secure.
When we speak of organization, we think of something to be done, something to be achieved better thus than by individual effort, or which must be done in that way or not at all. It is not merely for the sake of expressing opinion in a given way upon a given subject, it is for the purpose of arriving at unified thought upon a subject, or any given number of subjects, in order that united action may follow, that organization is of value.
The fact that a number of men will come together to agree in respect to opinion is no test of successful organization, nor will that continue to keep them together; it is the application of their practical aims that will do it. They combine, having a purpose in view to which they will give their united earnestness, and so long as this purpose rules in their thought and calls forth their energy they will have no difficulty in keeping up their coherency. When it dies away they fall asunder.
Also
Anarchism, May Day and Colonialism, by K. C. Sinclair (2026)
Endless Struggle reviews ‘From Riot to Insurrection’ (1989)
Autonomous Base Nucleus, by O. V. (1988)
The Affinity Group, by O. V. (1988)
Anarchists and the Wild West, by Franklin Rosemont (1986)
The Making of Honoré Jaxon, by Steven Sapolsky (1986)
The Haymarket Tragedy, by Paul Avrich (1984)
Restore the Meaning of May Day!, by Oscar William Neebe (1975)
The Form of the Struggle For Liberation, by Howard Adams (1975)
Construction in the struggle for insurrectional organization, by Alfredo M. Bonanno (1972)
On Organization, by L’Adunata dei Refrattari (1954)
The Haymarket Martyrs, by Lucy E. Parsons (1926)
Basic Principles of the Organization of the Union of Anarchists of Gulyai-Polye (1919)
The Spirit of Revolt, from Industrial Worker (1913)
Industrialism is not Syndicalism, from Industrial Worker (1913)
The Trial a Farce, by Lucy E. Parsons (1911)
A Rebel May Day, from Industrial Worker (1909)
We Must Not Stop!, by Lucy E. Parsons (1907)
May First, by Lucy E. Parsons (1906)
Patriotism, by Lucy E. Parsons (1906)
Suicide in Cleveland, by Lucy E. Parsons (1905)
Lucy E. Parsons’ Speeches at the Founding Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World (1905)
A Piece of History, by Lucy E. Parsons (1895)
Before the Storm, by Peter Kropotkin (1888)
The Philosophy of Anarchism, by Albert Parsons (1887)
Law vs Liberty, by Albert Parsons (1887)
Publisher’s Note, by Lucy E. Parsons (1887)
Arrest of Mrs. Parsons and Children, by Lizzie M. Holmes (1887)
The Famous Speeches of the Eight Chicago Anarchists in Court (1886)
Plea for Anarchy, by Albert Parsons (1886)
Abolition of Government, by Lizzie M. Swank (1886)
“Timid” Capital, by Lizzie M. Swank (1886)
A Martyr, from The Alarm (1885)
A Free Society, by Albert Parsons (1884)
The Black Flag, from The Alarm (1884)
To the Workingmen of America, by the International Working Peoples’ Association (1883)
