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Chinese anarchists in the U.S |
by mitch
Previously published: Anarcho-Syndicalist Review, Summer 2006 |
02 Oct 2006
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Expanded and updated version of previous article on The Equality Society |
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Lucien Tronchet (1902-1981), Swiss anarchist |
by Syndicalist
Previously published: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library October 1999 ~ No. 20, |
13 Aug 2006
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Brief biography of a Swiss anarcho-syndicalist. Adapted from Le Monde Libertaire (Paris, No 452, Summer 1982) |
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La Lucha Continua - 70 Years On |
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by mitch |
17 Jul 2006
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July 19th marks the 70th Anniversary of the Spanish Revolution. This was the first time in history that the anarchist vision of self-management was partially implemented.
In spite of all the strengths of the anarcho-syndicalist movement (represented by the CNT-AIT) and the militancy of the anarchist federation (FAI), the revolution and movement were not without its flaws. In spite of all its flaws and mistakes, the Spanish libertarians provided the world with a glimpse of what a self-managed society might look like. |
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Syndicalism and Anarcho-Syndicalism in Germany: |
by Helge Döhring translation by John Carroll
Previously published: Freie ArbeiterInnen Union: |
29 May 2006
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The following text comprises an introduction to the development of German Syndicalism from its beginnings in 1890 until the end of its organized form in the early 1960s. The emphasis of this introduction, however, centers on the period before and leading up to 1933, when the National Socialists under Adolf Hitler ascended to power. Syndicalism, and more specifically Anarcho-Syndicalism are movements that have been largely forgotten. This albeit superficial outline should, at its conclusion, show that this movement was not always so obscure and unknown. This piece aims not to comprehensively examine all the varied aspects of German Anarcho-syndicalism, but rather to pique the curiosity and interest of its readers. |
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The Tragic Week in May |
by Augustin Souchy
Previously published: www.fondation-besnard.org |
02 May 2006
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An account of the fighting in Barcelona in May 1937 when the Communists consolidated their hold on power and turned decisively against the anarchists and revolutionary workers. |
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Samuel Gompers |
by Emma Goldman
Previously published: The Road to Freedom, New York, Vol.1 |
04 Jan 2006
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The numerous tributes paid to the late President of the American Federation of Labor, emphasized his great leadership. "Gompers was a leader of men," they said. One would have expected that the disaster brought upon the world by leadership would have proven that to be a leader of men is far from a virtue. Rather is it a vice for which those who are being led are usually made to pay very heavily. |
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On the International Workingmen's Association and Karl Marx |
by Mikhail Bakunin
Previously published: Bakunin on Anarchy, translated and edited by Sam Dolgoff |
03 Jan 2006
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This selection was written when the decisive struggle in the International Workingmen’s International had reached its climax with the expulsion of Bakunin from the International by the Hague Congress in 1872. The first part concerns Marx’s conduct in the International and concerns the differences of principle and tactics between the two opposing factions. It also deals with the basic principles of revolutionary syndicalism, including a critique of Marxism, particularly in relation to the labor movement. Bakunin takes up such matters as 1) non-worker members of the International; 2) should the General Council assume dictatorial powers over the International; 3) should the International be a model of the new society it is trying to build, or a replica of the State; 4) the relatively prosperous “semi-bourgeois caste of crafts and industrial workers” who could easily constitute the “fourth governing class” (the other three being the Church, the State bureaucracy, and the capitalists); and 5) Bakunin’s confidence in the revolutionary potential of the most oppressed, poorest, and alienated masses whom he calls “the flower of the proletariat.”
The second part deals primarily with Bakunin’s criticism of Marx’s historical materialism and political economy. |
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Direct Action Movement |
by Mitch
Previously published: Kate Sharpley Library Bulletin #4 |
30 Dec 2005
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Brief history of the succesor to the British Syndicalist Workers Federation, the Direct Action Movement. |
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The Principles of Anarchism |
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by Lucy E. Parsons |
29 Dec 2005
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A Lecture by Lucy Parsons |
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Sacco and Vanzetti |
by Alexander Berkman & Emma Goldman
Previously published: The Road to Freedom, Vol 5, Aug 1929 |
13 Nov 2005
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Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman co-authored this aricle as a tribute to the executed Italian-American anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti. The article is both a tribute to the memory of Sacco and Vanzetti, as well as a damnation of the State.
Originally published in the American anarchist publication "The Road to Freedom" published in New York City in the mid-late 1920s. |
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