Jo Freeman
Freeman, Jo
Articles by Joe Freeman, American feminist activist from the 1970s whose work on democratic structures continues to be a must-read for those trying to organise today.
Untying the Knot
Unstructured groups do not rise above hierarchy; rather they just create their own informal elites who are completely unaccountable to anyone.
The two essays contained in Untying the Knot relate both to how we organise radical groups and how we act as radicals so as to avoid a disordered political movement. Since being written in the early 1970s, both these essays have had a profound influence on both the feminist and anarchist movements world-wide.
