The ORA grouped itself around the newspaper Libertarian Struggle,[4] which circulated about 1,500-2,000 copies, making it larger than most other anarchist periodicals at the time.
[5] In 1975, the ORA split off from the AFB and reconstituted itself as the Anarchist Workers Association (AWA), in order to emphasise its workerist orientation.
[3] It declared itself in favour of class conflict and advocated for a violent social revolution to overthrow capitalism.
[8] Its new name represented the group's break with anarchism, as it considered the British anarchist movement of the time to be "unable to intervene actively in the struggles of the working class".
[11] In 1984, a number of former members of the LCG established the Libertarian Communist Discussion Group (LCDG), which formed the nucleus for an organisation that eventually grew into the Anarchist Federation.