Archival and workshop materials relating to constitutional practices in grass roots anarchistic organisations 2011-2018

The data consists of two bundles (i) Statements and General Assembly minutes of three Occupy camps (Wall Street, London St. Paul's and Oakland) downloaded from the online archives for the period of active occupation (2011-12) (ii) transcripts from workshops conducted in 2017 with Industrial Workers of the World branch members in the UK. These were arranged to discuss preliminary findings of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) members survey. Preliminary survey results are included in the bundle. <p>This project develops an anarchist conception of constitutionalising
and explores the practices of three national and international groups: Occupy (Wall Street, London St. Pauls and Oakland), the Industrial Workers of the World and the Radical Routes co-operative. None of these are explicitly anarchist organisations but all have strong associations with anarchist politics. Working with these groups, we hope to understand how members currently constitutionalise, how far they are successful in realising their goals and what is distinctive about the practices they adopt. Our key question is: What constitutional principles and practices does a commitment to anarchy generate?</p>