Known for most of its two-decades-long history as the Anarchist Communist Federation, a name change was agreed upon in the late 1990s, though an advocacy of anarcho-communism remained at the center of its politics.
Key Anarchist Federation principles include a commitment to class struggle as a method of abolishing capitalism and the state, and a rejection of the strategy of vanguardism which it sees as being typified by 'revolutionary' political parties.
The Anarchist Federation publishes the theoretical journal Organise, as well two different versions (British and Irish) of its monthly newsletter, Resistance.