[1] In May 1988 Janusz Waluszko (a member of the anarchist group Ruch Społeczeństwa Alternatywnego {RSA}) and Krzysztof Galiński (a member of the anti-communist group Ruch Wolność i Pokój) first developed the idea of the Inter-City Anarchist Association, calling it a "network of positive exchange".

[2] The inaugural manifesto of the Anarchist Intercity in June 1988 reads: Anarchy can be understood as an infinite possibility of individual encounters.

The stopping of social and mental activity at this level leads to suicide both in the eyes of people, for whom we become madmen and provocateurs, and in fact – because we succumb to depressions and utopias.

[3] During the July and August 1988, the Silesian Freedom and Peace movement carried out an event in Białogóra's Hyde Park.

It was attended by representatives of the anarchist movement from all over Poland, such as: Marek Kurzyniec, Grzegorz Kmita, Janusz Waluszko, and Krzysztof Skiba.

For example, Zbigniew Sajnóg from Totart sent a letter to the organizers, in which he proposed to keep the concept of the MA as a loose network of contacts between anarchists.

They protested against re-privatization, selling off national assets, enfranchisement of the nomenklatura, progressive social stratification, Poland's 'submission' to the International Monetary Fund.

[9] The Anarchist Federation Information Office operates in the period between conventions, forming decisions on current, external affairs.

The sections must, however, agree with the overall ideological beliefs of the Federation, which "unites people whose aim is to overthrow the hierarchical social order which contradicts the idea of freedom and democracy", and which strives to "create a self-governing society, formed on a voluntary basis".

[1] At the turn of the 20th and 21st century over a dozen sections from all over the country belonged to the FA, including Gdansk, Krakow, Warsaw, Poznan, Wroclaw, Kielce, Lodz, Lublin, Sochaczew, Slupsk and Koszalin.

[15] FA has organised protests against corporations, in particular McDonalds, and foreign governments, namely against the military intervention of the USA in Afghanistan and Iraq, and against Russia's 1994 invasion of Chechnya.

[22] FA has stated their anti-parliamentary policies and boycotting activities derive from ideals of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Mikhail Bakunin and Peter Kropotkin.

[a][23] FA will release anti-election posters, and leaflets in protest of Polish and international elections, being particularly critical of representative democracies.

[25] These leaflets are predominately posted online, often with the phrases:[24] Anarchists from the FA took part in May Day demonstrations against Soviet Poland[26] and organized anti-tax rallies.

[28] In recent years, FA activists have been defending tenants as part of the campaign "Mieszkanie Prawem NIE Towarem" (Apartment [are a] Right, NOT a Commodity), by participating in eviction blockades.

In the early 1990s, FA co-founded Radical Anti-Fascist Action (RAAF), which was designed as a 'defence group' to protect people against fascist attacks.

Anarchists outside of FA criticized RAFF, stating that the activity of anti-fascist groups would not solve fascist problems, rather they were only addressing a symptom of the issue.

Marek Kurzyniec, a member of FA Krakow, argued that: "disorientation, lack of a revolutionary alternative and social crisis – this is the subsoil for the birth of 'para-fascist' behaviour.

The history of the Brotherhood Publishing House "Troika" dates back to 1994, when it was established to popularize anarchist thought.