No-one has the right to coerce or expect obedience from others except where necessary to protect the equal rights of others. Anarchists are opposed to patriarchy. As a coercive set of social relations based on gender hierarchy, patriarchy oppresses and silences women in ways that we are as yet not even fully conscious. Patriarchal structures must be destroyed wherever they are recognised. Anarchists are not opposed to organisation.
Anarchy is about organisation.
It is about co-operation amongst equals, free of oppressive power relations. We must organise to prevent this. We are opposed, however, to types of organisation which are based on authority and hierarchy or which involve the unnecessary regimentation and subordination of individuals or which strangle individual creativity. We are implacably opposed to the centralisation of power. Consensus decisions are always the ideal but when a consensus cannot be reached then democratic procedures must be employed.