u/Jmlsky - originally from r/GenZhou
I write another comment for visibility purpose, but here’s how we structure our local chapter based on the traditionnal marxist leninist organisation.

There’s the Bureau of the chapter which is composed of 4 people :

• The Secrétaire, who’s job is to coordinate.

• Propaganda Secrétaire, who’s job consiste in dealing with communication

• Organisation Secrétaire, who’s job consiste in organizing the party’s life and its action

• The accountant, who’s job is to deal with money and funding.

This Bureau is elected in and by the GA, general assembly, which gather all party member regularly (summoning it is Sec/OrgSec job) and is where most of decision are taken collectively. This GA give mandate to the Bureau but is also here for general political decision, that’s where democracy is. The Bureau isn’t all powerful and have to “rendre des comptes”, to do what the GA give him mandate to do, and when there’s big decision to be made, it shall be decided in the GA, and the Bureau role is also to organize the GA in order for it to be able to decide properly (order of the day, introductory/political rapport, sending all needed element beforehand to all members, etc…)

The Bureau elect itself a secrétariat, which gather more often than the Bureau and who’s task is to deal with mundain affairs and to keep track of ongoing tasks. Two or three member of the Bureau are part of the secrétariat.

In addition to this, I recommend you to have an association, to organize popular éducation event, and à blog or à newspaper, to diffuse propaganda. That’s the bare minimum.

Edit: omg I forgot the principal !!! The principe is to have section, towns section, one per town if possible, and then company cells in every town, cells in big company, factory if possible. Each of them have the same structure everytime (Bureau+GA) and the principle of a local chapter is to be a federation of town section (made of every section of every town of a department/région, and every town section is made of every company cells of this town gathered too). So it goes like that:

Departmental chapter>Town section>Company cells

Everytime, repeat the structuration, there’s OrgSec/PropSec etc. (So a Bureau+GA) of X town section or of X company cell. And the local chapter is the federation of all town section, and a town section is the federation of all company cells of a town.

All those town sections and company cells shall strive to have their own association and newspaper if they can too by the way.

And that’s it, that’s the basis of a local chapter.

Coming to the agenda, here’s how we’re doing:

• Once per month, the Bureau gather to manage affairs.

• The month after, it’s General Assembly, which the last month Bureau has organized and summoned.

• Once per week, it’s secrétariat.

All this burocracy is needed to manage everything, from production of propaganda, to organizing action (strike, protest, election, tracting phamplet, organizing popular éducation session, sticking posters on walls, etc…), and most importantly, to organize democracy. The whole point is the following :

We debate collectively, we decide collectively, and we act/apply the décision collectively.

I know I will sound biased, because I’m a SecOrg myself, but it is the most crucial post if you ask me. Without a proper OrgSec job, everything’s go to shit very quickly. In France, a lot of General Secretary of the PCF were SecOrg before becoming SecGen, and there’s no wonder why.

This is the basis of a local chapter, not of the party, there’s much more to cover if you want the organigram of the party, and also have in mind that I learnt all this from one of the best human I have met, an old militant that teach me everything I know, and who has 50years of party membership, and moreover who learnt himself from old party member from the time when PCF was Marxist-Leninist and à proper class party.

This is communism, all those organisational strata and structure are some of the roots of communism that need to be produced by socialists. This is the roots of socialism that need to grow under capitalism, just like how capitalism grew under the feodal era. It can’t be avoid no matter what, this is why I spoke about your duty as a marxist, which is to be a communist, a proper party member, to do the job, to create and organize these things, for when time come, the working class will have all this under its hand to fight the bourgeoisie.

You could have more role in the Bureau if need be, but this triptic “GenSec-OrgSec-PropSec” is the nuclear core that everyone can set up in his town to begin to work on marxist-leninist principles. This is the trio that was used by communist during Nazi occupation of France, and it is effective as fuck.

Also, sorry if this is not the proper terminology, I guess there’s English words for secrétaire and secrétariat but I don’t know it.