The Initiative for an Anarchist Federation in Germany was founded in 1989 by comrades from various anarchist backgrounds with the intent to develop a federation open for a membership covering the entire range of anarchist theory and thought. I-AFD thus aims at being a forum in which anarchists of various groups and projects meet and co-operate and therefore is open to multi-memberships. Furthermore we want to organise anarchists not already engaged in groups or projects to enable further contacts and co-operation in non-urban areas. One difficulty for a growing process in I-AFD has been and is the fact that a fairly high percentage of German anarchists are reluctant to see the necessity of having common supra-regional structures which work and co-operate on a reliable level.

In 1990, I-AFD initiated a meeting in order to improve the flow of information between anarchist movements in European countries. This A-Infos network at first consisted of a co-operation between anarchist organisations and groups in France, Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany which soon gathered further participation even outside Europe. This idea later on was taken up by comrades who started an A-Infos internet project which at first was a structure parallel to A-Info paper issues but co-operation between both projects has been realised in the meantime.

After having established a good co-operation with some IFA sister federations, I-AFD applied to IFA for membership and was accepted in 1992.

I-AFD at the moment consists of seven locales and five contacts. We publish an internal newsletter/bulletin on a monthly basis. Our members engage in various projects and campaigns like planning and maintaining local communication centres, initiatives to legalise soft drugs, in antifa activities, and in anti-clerical activities. Some locales organised support campaigns for Chechnya, in co-operation with locales of anarcho-syndicalist FAU, and assisted in convoys with humanitarian aid organised mainly by Polish FAP.

At the moment we discuss projects and concepts of an anarchist paper/magazine to be published by I-AFD, as well as a project to produce propaganda materials and co-ordinate resources to carry out information campaigns and events.

One recent part of our work is initiating and establishing contacts to anarchist federations and organisations in Eastern Europe, and as one of our locales is multi-lingual (Polish, Russian, and Italian), we arrived at good and fairly regular co-operations with FAP in Poland, and others like CAF.

I-AFD presently plans to initiate an International Day of Action of anarchists world-wide in 1998 which will mean decentralised events organised by organisations on either national, regional, and local level to promote information of anarchist thought to people.

"Seid ueberzeugt, dass das Geheimnis des Gluecks die FREIHEIT ist, das Geheimnis der Freiheit aber der MUT ist!" Perikles