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Common Sense Reasons for Workers Self-management |
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by Scott Rittenhouse |
02 Sep 2005
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"Bosses are inefficient! - Many managers create unnecessary work or make you redo work "their way" just to justify their job or to make you think you have to go through them to get your work done. - Many managers create "empires" of things under their centralized control so you can't get resources or information you need to do your day-to-day work. Without a boss, access to these crucial resources would be decentralized and made available based on need." |
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The Constructive Programme of the IWW |
by B. H. Williams
Previously published: Solidarity, June 7, 1913 |
02 Sep 2005
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"The GENERAL ORGANIZATION of the I. W. W. is for the purpose of securing and maintaining the co-operation of all industrial groups for the work of social production for the use and benefit of all the people. The general organization has also another purpose at the present time--that of binding all the workers of the organization together for common defense and aggression against the master class. Its present success along this line brings forth the cry that the "I W. W. is trying to destroy society." |
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Is Anarchism Right for Complex Societies? |
by Brian Oliver Sheppard
Previously published: Anarcho-Syndicalist Review #35/6 - Fall 2002 |
02 Sep 2005
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"The charge has often been made that the anarchist economic model is ill suited for complex societies. The multi-faceted nature of advanced industrial economies; their scope of operation and breadth of distribution; the extensive refinement in their division of labor � all these and more are held up as examples of the labyrinth of problems that nothing as "simplistic" as anarchism could ever hope to address. Anarchism, according to many modern critics, could only hope to work in limited, small-scall economies. And even then, only possibly." |
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Resistance to Unemployment in France |
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by Direct Action |
02 Sep 2005
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"The unemployed movement in France, which lead to widespread national actions and demonstrations against poverty, contributed much to the debate in France and elsewhere about how to build resistance to unemployment. But it went further than this . . . It also saw a new awareness in France, by all workers and unemployed, of the nature of work and how it should be organised, and started a national questioning of the economics of employment." |
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Social Democracy Hits the Rails |
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by Direct Action |
02 Sep 2005
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"The failure of the unions stems from the reformist politics that dominated them. The whole rational of the unions comes from the post war social democratic idea that government regulation would ensure a capitalist system free of recession, capable of delivering ever rising standards of living. The unions role being to negotiate a share of the fat capitalist cake acceptable to both worker and management. Recession exploded this social democratic myth. The union having long abandoned the idea of replacing capitalism could do little but accept the logic of it and scale down demands to suit what the crisis hit economy could afford. When recession was coupled to a capitalist offensive the unions having no alternative or way forward could do little but defend the old social democratic order, the new economic conditions was rapidly sweeping aside. We have to come to terms with these new economic conditions and that the failure of the unions is that of social democracy as a whole. It matter not which government is in power or what form of social democratic system is introduced. Social democracy ideal, which the reformist unions form a part of, can no longer meet the challenge of global capitalism and guarantee even basic workers rights. We have to break with reformism and build a union movement based on a revolutionary perspective able to not only organise militant action to win immediate demands but in the long run capable of challenging capitalism itself. " |
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What is Anarcho-Syndicalism - Libertarian Reformism, Vanguardism or Revolutionary Unionism? |
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by Peter Principle |
02 Sep 2005
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"We can play a double game in reformist unions, but impossible conditions are expected of a revolutionary union. There has to be room for union autonomy, and for people to make mistakes so that they can learn. As one French comrade once put it: "anarcho-syndicalism is like free speech, useless if you don't practise it." |
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