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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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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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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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An Overview of the Spanish Libertarian Movement |
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by Murray Bookchin |
02 Sep 2005
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"Although the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in July, 1936, was followed by a far-reaching social revolution in the anti-Franco camp - more profound in some respects than the Bolshevik Revolution in its early stages - millions of discerning people outside of Spain were kept in ignorance, not only of its depth and range, but even of its existence, by virtue of a policy of duplicity and dissimulation of which there is no parallel in history." |
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The Tragedy of Spain |
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by Rudolf Rocker |
02 Sep 2005
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"July 19th was the anniversary of the day on which a gang of militarist adventurers rose against the republican regime in Spain and, with the assistance of outside powers and foreign troops, plunged the country into a bloody war. This murderous war has thus far devoured nearly a million human lives, among them thousands of women and children, and has transformed wide stretches of the country into desert wastes. The profound tragedy of this bloody drama lies in the fact that it is not just an ordinary civil war, but a struggle, as well, between two different foreign power-groups that is being waged today on Spanish soil. Two hostile imperialist camps are struggling for the natural resources of a foreign country and the strategic advantage of its coasts. The prosecution of this war is, moreover, having an unmistakable influence on the struggle of the Spanish people for freedom, and this influence is today constantly manifesting itself more clearly in the intestine warfare between the revolutionary and the counter-revolutionary forces of the country." |
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Anarcho-Syndicalism in Puerto Real |
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by Solidarity Federation - IWA |
02 Sep 2005
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"Today I would like to talk about the rationalisation of the shipyards in Puerto Real in the south-west of Spain and the kind of activities the CNT has been involved in . . . Every Thursday of every week, in the towns and villages in the area, we had all-village assemblies where anyone who was connected with the particular issue, whether they were actually workers in the shipyard itself, or women or children or grandparents, could go along to the village assembly and actually vote and take part in the decision-making process of what was going to take place. So we created a structure which was very different from the kind of structure of political parties, where the decisions are made at the top and they filter down. What we managed to do in Puerto Real was make decisions at the base and take them upwards, which is in complete contrast to the ways in which political parties operate." |
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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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The Barcelona Mass Rent Strike of 1931 |
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by Tom Wetzel |
02 Sep 2005
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"By the early 1930s unemployment was increasing but rents were still high, compounding the crisis. Activists in the CNT had been debating since the late �20s how to break out of limited struggles with individual employers and make the unions relevant to all social problems affecting the working class. In January of 1931 Solidaridad Obrera (Workers Solidarity -- a daily newspaper owned by the CNT of Catalonia) published a series of articles calling for action around the housing crisis." |
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Italy 1920 |
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by Tom Wetzel |
02 Sep 2005
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"During the month of September, 1920, a widespread occupation of Italian factories by their workforces took place, which originated in the auto factories, steel mills and machine tool plants of the metal sector but spread out into many other industries -- cotton mills and hosiery firms, lignite mines, tire factories, breweries and distilleries, and steamships and warehouses in the port towns . . . But this was not a sit-down strike; the workers continued production with their own in-plant organization. And railway workers, in open defiance of the management of the state-owned railways, shunted freight cars between the factories to enable production to continue. At its height about 600,000 workers were involved . . . This movement blew up out of a conventional trade union struggle over wages. But the wage demands were only the official occasion for the fight; the real aspirations and desires that motivated the workers involved in this struggle go much deeper . . . " |
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