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Faq

Anarcho-Syndicalist FAQ
Version 1.4
Last added to or updated: April 29, 2002

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Section 1: Defining Anarcho-Syndicalism

  • 1a. Where does the term "Anarcho-Syndicalism" come from, and what does it mean?
  • 1b. Why do anarcho-syndicalists oppose the wages system?
  • 1c. Why do anarcho-syndicalists oppose participation in statist politics?
  • 1d. What are the basic principles of anarcho-syndicalism?
  • 1d1. What is Workers' Solidarity?
  • 1d2. What is Direct Action?
  • 1d3. What is Self-Management?
  • 1d3a. How are decisions made in an anarcho-syndicalist union? What is collective decision-making? What is its purpose?
  • 1d3b. What is the delegate system, and how does it function?
  • 1d3c. How do autonomous anarcho-syndicalist union locals combine in one industry? What is federalism?
  • 1d3d. How do anarcho-syndicalist industrial federations combine across the spectrum of production and distribution? What is confederalism?
  • 1d3e. What, roughly speaking, are the branches of the anarcho-syndicalist confederation?
  • 1d3e1. What is the IWW wheel?
  • 1d3d. In the workers' assembly, why is everyone important, and no one necessary?
  • 1d3e. Why do anarcho-syndicalists believe in resolving disputes between union members in the workers' assembly, and not in the hallway?
  • 1d3f. What is "confederal time"?
  • 1e. What are the basic strategies and tactics of anarcho-syndicalism?
  • 1e1. Agitation
  • 1e1a. Symbols
  • 1e1a1. What is the significance of the Red and Black Flag?
  • 1e1b2. What is the significance of the Sabcat symbol?
  • 1e1b. Music
  • 1e1b1. What is the IWW Songbook?
  • 1e1b2. Who is Utah Phillips?
  • 1e1b3. Who is Woody Guthrie?
  • 1e1b4. What is "A las Barricadas"?
  • 1e1b5. Who is Sin Dios?
  • 1e1b6. Who is Brigada Flores Magon?
  • 1e1e7. Who are General Strike and The Sab Cats?
  • 1e1c. Literature
  • 1e2. Education
  • 1e2a. Francisco Ferrer and the Modern School
  • 1e2b. Esperanto
  • 1e2c. Literature
  • 1e3. Organisation
  • 1e3a. The Strike
  • 1e3b. The Go-Slow
  • 1e3c. The Work-to-Rule
  • 1e3d. Occupations
  • 1e3e. Sabotage
  • 1e3f. The General Strike
  • 1e3g. Other Miscellaneous Examples of Direct Action
  • 1e3h. Community Activism
  • 1e3h1. The CNT at Puerto Real
  • 1e3h2. Ningala Ningala
  • 1e3h3. Squatting and Housing Issues
  • 1e3h4. Unemployed Movements
  • 1f. Are anarcho-syndicalists sexist?
  • 1g. Are anarcho-syndicalists racist?
  • 1h. Do anarcho-syndicalists approve of bashing homosexuals?
  • 1i. Are anarcho-syndicalists pro-environment?
  • 1j. Are anarcho-syndicalists against animal testing? Are they vegetarian or vegan? Do they abstain from drinking and smoking?
  • 1k. What is the difference between anarcho-syndicalist and business unions?
  • 1l. What is the difference between anarcho-syndicalism and social democracy?
  • 1m. What is the difference between anarcho-syndicalism and marxism-leninism?
  • 1n. What does anarcho-syndicalism have in common with autonomist marxism?
  • 1o. What does anarcho-syndicalism have in common with situationism?
  • 1p. What is the difference between strictly anarchist organisations and anarcho-syndicalist unions?
  • 1q. What are some of the problems in translating anarcho-syndicalism into a western society based on capitalist individualism?
  • 1r. What is the relationship between the anarcho-syndicalist movement and the working class as a whole?
  • 1s. Can workers who are religious be members of anarcho-syndicalist unions?

  • Section 2: The Development of Anarcho-Syndicalism

  • 2a. Who are the theoretical founders of anarcho-syndicalism?
  • 2a1. Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
  • 2a2. Who was Fernand Pelloutier?
  • 2a3. Who was Emile Pouget?
  • 2a4. Who was Rudolf Rocker?
  • 2a5. Who was Anselmo Lorenzo?
  • 2a6. Who was Elizabeth Gurley Flynn?
  • 2a7. Who was Ralph Chaplin?
  • 2b. In which countries did anarcho-syndicalism first develop?
  • 2b1. France (CGT)
  • 2b2. Spain (1868 - 1936)
  • 2b3. United States (IWW before WW1)

  • Section 3: Anarcho-Syndicalism in Practise

  • 3a. Anarcho-Syndicalism in France
  • 3a1. What was the Charter of Amiens?
  • 3a2. What was the CGT?
  • 3b. Anarcho-Syndicalism in Spain
  • 3b1. What was (is) the CNT?
  • 3b2. What was Spanish Civil War, and what was the role of the CNT?
  • 3b3. What were the collectivisations?
  • 3c. Anarcho-Syndicalism in Russia
  • 3d. Anarcho-Syndicalism in the United States: The Wobblies
  • 3e. Anarcho-Syndicalism in Italy
  • 3e1. What was the 1920 general strike?
  • 3f. Other examples

  • Section 4. The Libertarian Labour Movement Today

  • 4a. Anarcho-Syndicalism is internationalist. What internationals are in existance today?
  • 4a1. What is the International Workers' Association?
  • 4a1a. What is the CNT-E?
  • 4a1b. What is the FAU?
  • 4a1c. What is the CNT-AIT?
  • 4a1d. What is the USI-AIT?
  • 4a1e. What is the Solidarity Federation?
  • 4a1f. What is the ASF (Australia)?
  • 4a1g. What is the FSA?
  • 4a1h. What is the KRAS?
  • 4a2. What is the Industrial Workers of the World?
  • 4b. What organisations exist outside of the internationals?
  • 4b1. What is the CGT?
  • 4b2. What is the CNT-F?
  • 4b3. What is the USI?
  • 4b4. What is the ASF (Ireland)?
  • 4b5. What is the SAC?
  • 4b6. What is the WSA?
  • 4c. What is the anarcho-syndicalist response to capitalist globalisation?
  • 4d. What is the anarcho-syndicalist response to the global refugee crisis?

  • Section 5: The Goals of Anarcho-Syndicalism

  • 5a. What is LIbertarian Communism?
  • 5b. What if people didn't want to be part of experiments in anarcho-syndicalism?
  • 5c. How would the relationship between anarcho-syndicalist unions and movements of dispossessed indigenous peoples function?
  • 5c1. The Australian Case

  • This FAQ is intended to be a collective project of anarcho-syndicalists right around the world, which means that anyone can contribute to it. To discuss contributing to the FAQ, or to submit an answer to a FAQ, contact the site maintainers by clicking here.

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