For absolute beginners and isolated individuals (or groups of 2 or 3)

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A common experience for people, particularly young people who come to anarchism in the English speaking world is one of isolation. In my own case I came to anarchism through reading ’Homage to Catalonia’ and then the very few anarchist books I could obtain in my city. These were nearly all liberal academic histories or reprints of texts from the 19th century so for quite a while I was unaware that the anarchist movement still existed. It took me a year to find other individual anarchists and another year to discover there was actually a small anarchist group in my city. It was another year before I took part in the formation of an organisation but even then we were very inexperienced. We ended up fusing with a much older anarchist group and it was only then that we reached the ability to undertake effective activity. I’ve written this text (with the help of others) in a way that I think would have enable me and our initial small group to become effective much, much faster.
Evaluating an Anarchist Group
Setting up an Anarchist Group
Contributing to an anarchist group

For people with some experience of anarchist organisation

The policy of an anarchist organisation