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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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The Union Makes Us Strong? Syndicalism: A Critical Analysis |
by Anarchist Communist Federation (UK)
Previously published: Organise! issue 46 (Summer 97) |
16 Feb 2006
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The ACF has never, despite what some of our critics may have suggested, made our criticisms of syndicalism, including its anarcho variety, a "distinguishing characteristic" (see Black Flag Issue 211) of our politics. In a world-wide “labour movement” dominated by social democratic ideas and practice and thoroughly integrated into capitalism, our focus of attack has not been on the relatively tiny syndicalist and “alternative” union structures which exist. Rather, our arguments have been against trade unionism and for working class self-organised struggle. |
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Anarchism in Spain |
by Felix Morrow
Previously published: New International, Vol.4 No.1, January 1938, pp.6-7. |
16 Feb 2006
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Critique of Rudolf Rocker’s "The Tragedy of Spain" by the American Trotskyist Felix Morrow. Morrow was also the author of "Revolution & Counter-Revolution in Spain" (1938). |
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A Union Without Bureaucrats |
by Don Fitz
Previously published: ideas & action #11, Summer, 1989 (Workers Solidarity Alliance) |
16 Feb 2006
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Declaration of the Workers' Initiative |
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by Workers' Initiative (Poland) |
10 Jan 2006
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Today workers are often unorganized, divided, don't have contact with each other, are being intermediated and have abandoned all faith in their own strengths. Trade unions are losing their meaning. This situation is beneficial for employers who are using protection of state's administration and it's means of coercion. Alliance (often of corruption nature) between political power in the state and economical one in economics is aimed against all workers. Its goal is to sustain social division. Rich, privileged in every way minority which has access to ownership, power and means of indoctrination is thriving and is multiplying its wealth thanks to the work of majority. |
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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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The Labor Party Illusion |
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by Sam Dolgoff |
03 Jan 2006
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The Labor Party Illusion
By Sam Dolgoff ("Sam Weiner"), c. 1971
Originally written in the United States some 32 years ago, this essay was as relevant then as it is today. At the time, Sam Dolgoff went by the pseudonym "Sam Weiner" in his writings. |
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