A-Infos (en) France, UCL AL #373 - International Contributions - Catalonia: Building Organized Anarchism (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The Embat organization, present in Catalonia, identifies with the 
specificist current. In this text, they nevertheless revisit the 
significant influence of the Platform, but also the reasons why they do 
not identify as "platformists." --- Embat, OLC, founded under the name 
Procés Embat in 2013, considered the Platform to be one of the 
fundamental texts that every revolutionary activist should know. At that 
time, several libertarian organizations already existed across Europe, 
Africa, the Americas, and Oceania that identified as "platformists" or 
were "anarcho-communists in the Platform tradition."

In Catalonia and throughout Spain, only a handful of anarchist activists 
had read the Platform, at least until it began circulating online in 
English and Spanish-translated by Chilean comrades. This is why Embat 
preferred to align himself with a "social and organized anarchism." 
Defending "platformism" might have seemed too strange to an audience 
completely unfamiliar with it.

However, we recognized that the Platform was highly relevant to the 
necessary debates the movement needed to have, as outlined in both the 
general and constructive sections of the 1926 text. But since we were 
creating a new organization at a time when organizations were scarce and 
the movement was largely resistant to them, we focused for years on the 
organizational aspects, as well as on the introduction-which offered a 
critical perspective on the anarchist landscape of the 1920s, a century ago.

Over the years, we developed our political line, which aims to address 
the fundamental debates within the movement. These same debates inspired 
the Delo Truda group to draft a document that is now celebrating its 
centenary. We adopted measures very similar to those of the Russian 
group, although some were less so, particularly regarding societal 
developments and our influence in relation to other proposals, which is 
understandable given the passage of time.

Thus, the fact that this text is celebrating its centenary, that it is 
shared and adopted by a large part of the movement, and that it remains 
relevant, indicates that our anarchist movement is in the midst of 
fundamental debates for our time. The references are there for those who 
wish to draw inspiration from them. Our concern, like that of Diélo 
Trouda, is to build a solid anarchist movement. And as yesterday, we 
repeat: long live the social revolution of the workers of the world!

Embat (Catalonia)

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Catalogne-Construire-l-anarchisme-organise
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