to merely anarchists. For this, he uses the term 'autonomous base nuclei', which includes anarchists and non-anarchists struggling together: The essential element in the insurrectional project is therefore mass participation. And, as we started off from the condition of affinity among the single anarchist groups participating in it, it is also an essential element of this affinity itself. It would be no more than mere camaraderie d’elite if it were to remain circumscribed to the reciprocal search for deeper personal knowledge between comrades. But it would be nonsense to consider trying to make other people become anarchists and suggest that they enter our groups during the struggle. Not only would it be nonsense, it would be a horrible ideological forcing of things that would upturn the whole meaning of affinity groups and the eventual informal organisation that might ensue in order to face the specific repressive attack. But here we are faced with the need to create organisational structures that are capable of regrouping the excluded in such a way as to begin the attack on repression. So we come to the need to give life to autonomous base nuclei, which can obviously give themselves any other name that indicates the concept of self-organisation. We have now reached the crucial point of the insurrectional project: the constitution of autonomous base nuclei (we are using this term here to simplify things). The essential, visible and immediately comprehensible characteristic of the latter is that they are composed of both anarchists and non-anarchists. Bibliography Some of Bonanno's published essays translated into English include: The Anarchist Tension And We Will Still Be Ready To Storm The Heavens Another Time: *Against Amnesty Armed Joy A Critique of Syndicalist Methods Destruction and Language Dissonances For An Anti-authoritarian Insurrectionalist International From Riot to Insurrection: Analysis for an anarchist perspective against post-industrial capitalism The Insurrectional Project Let’s Destroy Work, Let’s Destroy the Economy Locked Up Propulsive Utopia The Theory of the Individual: Stirner’s Savage Thought Worker's Autonomy References Further reading External links Anarchismo Editions - Alfredo Bonanno Archive of texts in english by Alfredo Maria Bonanno Italian anarchists Insurrectionary anarchists Writers from Catania Critics of work and the work ethic 1937 births Egoist anarchists Living people