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So Be It |
by Sam Dolgoff
Previously published: Red Menace |
10 May 2007
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Veteran anarcho-syndicalist Sam Dolgoff replies to two articles which appeared in the libertarian socialist magazine "Red Menace" Number 5, Summer 1980. |
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IWA/AIT May Day message |
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by IWA/AIT |
28 Apr 2007
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First of May 2007: For Freedom and Equality: Direct Action and Solidarity! |
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Letter to the International Workers’ Movement |
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by Falah Alwan, FWCUI |
25 Mar 2007
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Four years of occupation and destruction have devastated the society, where the streets witness daily killings through explosive bombs, booby traps, cars, and belts.
Unprecedented destructive powers were unleashed in these 4 years to turn people’s lives into hell. All of this happens amongst false promises of democracy and freedom, in the time when the country is stamped by tanks, military vehicles, and tens of thousands of heavily armed soldiers. |
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About the significance of anarchosyndicalism |
by Juan Gómez Casas
Previously published: iwa-ait.org |
12 Nov 2006
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We finally enclose an article made by Juan Gómez Casas called “Attention: New definitions about the anarchosyndicalism” It was made in 1983 during CNTE`s 6th Congress, and tells about the content of anarchosyndicalism in an attack against reformism, and might be a contribution in the theoretical and practical magazine decided by the 22nd IWA-Congress. The article was reproduced by the paper "CNT" in June 2001 and is in Spanish, so we make a call to everyone to provide translators and contributors so the magazine can be made as soon as possible!”
It is now translated into English and we put it on the IWA-website. It can be a contribution to the debate previously to the 23rd IWA-Congress which will be in Manchester the 8-9-10th of December 2006! |
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A New Syndicalism? |
by Flint
Previously published: Northeastern Anarchist #2, November 2001 |
01 Jun 2006
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Anarcho-syndicalism has changed a lot from it's origin in workers'
movements of the late 19th century. It saw many of its practices
adopted by reformist institutions, and other practices rendered
illegal by the repressive hand of the state. Criticisms have grown
outside of workplace related issues, and failures have been revisited
time and again. I'd like to constructively address some of those
criticisms to develop a revolutionary strategy for tactical
intervention with the economic struggles of our class.
Organizing around economic means is not enough |
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San Francisco Transit Fight of 2005 |
by Tom Wetzel
Previously published: Workers Solidarity Alliance website |
29 Dec 2005
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Despite heavy police presence at major bus transfer points, at least a couple thousand passengers rode the buses for free in San Francisco on Thursday, September 1st — the opening day of a fare strike in North America's most bus-intensive city. In the days leading up to September 1st, more than 50 people were actively organizing for the fare strike, with new groups endorsing the effort in the last week. More than 20,000 leaflets had been distributed and 10,000 stickers were attached to bus shelters and poles throughout the city — in Spanish and Chinese as well as English. |
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Wage Labour and Capital |
by Karl Marx
Previously published: Neue Rheinische Zeitung, April 5-8 and 11, 1849 |
29 Aug 2005
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But the exercise of labour power, labour, is the worker's own life-activity, the manifestation of his own life. And this life-activity he sells to another person in order to secure the necessary means of subsistence. Thus his life-activity is for him only a means to enable him to exist. He works in order to live. He does not even reckon labour as part of his life, it is rather a sacrifice of his life. It is a commodity which he has made over to another. Hence, also, the product of his activity is not the object of his activity. What he produces for himself is not the silk that he weaves, not the gold that he draws from the mine, not the palace that he builds. What he produces for himself is wages, and silk, gold, palace resolve themselves for him into a definite quantity of the means of subsistence, perhaps into a cotton jacket, some copper coins and a lodging in a cellar. And the worker, who for twelve hours weaves, spins, drills, turns, builds, shovels, breaks stones, carries loads, etc. -- does he hold this twelve hours' weaving, spinning, drilling, turning, building, shovelling, stone-breaking to be a manifestation of his life, to be life? |
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The Revolutionary Pleasure Of Thinking For Yourself |
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by Anonymous |
29 Aug 2005
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"This is a manual for those who wish to think for themselves, a manual for creation of a personally (rather than ideologically) constructed body of critical thought for your own use, a body of thought which will help you to understand why your life is the way it is and why the world is the way it is. More importantly, as you construct your own theory, you will also develop a practice: a method to get what you want for your own life. Theory, then, must be either practical-a guide to action-or it will be nothing, nothing but an aquarium of ideas, a contemplative interpretation of the world. The realm of ideas divorced from actions is the eternal waiting room of unrealised desires. Forming your own practical theory, what could be called "self-theory," is intimately connected to achieving the realization of your desires." |
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The Importance of Being Idle |
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by Nic Townsend |
29 Aug 2005
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"So you've finished your VCE and suddenly you've found yourself at university. If you're here with expectations of intellectual enlightenment and a fulfilling learning experience, you're about to be disappointed. If you're here with expectations of heavy workloads and lots of late nights studying, then you're in for a pleasant surprise . . . Through my own experiences I have learned the ins and outs of the Way of the Bludger, and as I embark on my final year of study, a feel a responsibility to pass down my knowledge to a new generation of disciples." |
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Kill or Chill: Analysis of the Opposition to the Criminal Justice Bill |
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by Aufheben |
29 Aug 2005
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"No amount of rights can compensate for the absolute poverty of the proletarian condition. The world of rights is founded upon our alienation. Rights define, not freedom, but its limits. Real freedom can only come about through the dissolution of this world of rights, the restoration of our creative capacities unto ourselves in a world where the free development of each is the condition of the free development of all. Communism [sic] abolishes rights in favour of free determination, the production first and foremost of ourselves as social individuals with richly developed needs and desires. The lobby for rights on the other hand serves to maintain this stinking rotten world of work and duty, unfreedom and poverty." |
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