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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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Anarcho-Syndicalism - Catalyst for Workers' Self Organisation Not Leftist Sect Building |
by Mark - Anarcho-Syndicalist Network
Previously published: Rebel Worker, Aug.-Sept. 2005 |
03 Jan 2006
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A history & analysis of workplace struggles in public transport in Australia, particularly in New South Wales over the last 15 years and a discussion of the role of anarcho-syndicalists in assisting these struggles |
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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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Errors of Workerism |
by South African Communist Party
Previously published: Source: ISIZWE, Journal of the UDF. Vol 1 No 3. November 1986 |
30 Dec 2005
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The SACP argues against a strong trend sweeping South Africa in the early to mid-1980's: "workerism". The "workerist" tendency was strong among many of the emerging independent and militant unions. Often times "workerism" used many of the same tacics and organizational forms as classical anarcho-syndicalism. The SACP was against this and argued for alliances with non-workers and for engagement in the political sphere. |
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Anarcho-syndicalism |
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by Tom Wetzel |
30 Dec 2005
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Text of talk given in New York City, October 2002 |
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San Francisco Transit Fight of 2005 |
by Tom Wetzel
Previously published: Workers Solidarity Alliance website |
29 Dec 2005
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Despite heavy police presence at major bus transfer points, at least a couple thousand passengers rode the buses for free in San Francisco on Thursday, September 1st — the opening day of a fare strike in North America's most bus-intensive city. In the days leading up to September 1st, more than 50 people were actively organizing for the fare strike, with new groups endorsing the effort in the last week. More than 20,000 leaflets had been distributed and 10,000 stickers were attached to bus shelters and poles throughout the city — in Spanish and Chinese as well as English. |
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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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