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1984 WSA: Conference for a new national libertarian workers organization |
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by mitch harris |
16 May 2011
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A few weeks ago, there were a couple of internal WSA conversations about the founding intent of the WSA. I thought it would be interesting to see what our intentions were near 3 decades ago. The substance of the Conference Call letter appears below, with a couple of notes and document links.
I have also taken the liberty of transcribing an article W.V. Gordon and I wrote on the founding conference. This article appeared in the north american newspaper STRIKE! (a paper many of us also participated in working on, along with "ideas & action". |
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Texts :: culture |
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A Las Barriacadas |
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by Confederación Nacional de Trabajo, Spain |
29 Aug 2005
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To the Barricades - a famous revolutionary song of the Spanish CNT. |
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Texts :: analysis |
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A New Syndicalism? |
by Flint
Previously published: Northeastern Anarchist #2, November 2001 |
01 Jun 2006
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Anarcho-syndicalism has changed a lot from it's origin in workers'
movements of the late 19th century. It saw many of its practices
adopted by reformist institutions, and other practices rendered
illegal by the repressive hand of the state. Criticisms have grown
outside of workplace related issues, and failures have been revisited
time and again. I'd like to constructively address some of those
criticisms to develop a revolutionary strategy for tactical
intervention with the economic struggles of our class.
Organizing around economic means is not enough |
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Texts :: critics |
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A Reply to "Capitalist Praise For Anarcho-Syndicalism" |
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by Iain McKay |
02 Sep 2005
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"Ignoring the sad and pathetic slander of anarchists aiming at "state-building," we are instantly struck by the lovely contradictory idea of "worker ownership of the means of production" being "capitalistic." Now, clearly Jeremy has redefined capitalistic as well as anarchism and syndicalism. Capitalism is marked by workers not owning the means of production. It is this fact which generates wage labour, the defining characteristic of capitalism. As such, workers owning the means of productions signifies a non-capitalist society! But he would know that, if he bothered to read anarchist or Marxist theory on the matter." |
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Texts :: theory |
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A review of Vadim Damier's 'Anarcho-syndicalism in the 20th Century' |
by Jared Davidson
Previously published: libcom.org |
08 Jun 2010
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For those who can read Russian, Vadim Damier’s two-volume study of the International Workers’ Association (IWA) is a comprehensive history of the worldwide anarchist labour movement in the early 20th Century. For the rest of us, Malcom Archibald has translated what is essentially a streamlined version of Damier’s larger work into English. Anarcho-syndicalism in the 20th Century is a broad survey of a movement often marginalised by Marxist academics, and is a welcome addition to the existing literature on anarcho-syndicalism. As Damier illustrates, anarcho-syndicalism was far from a outmoded, ineffective or petty-bourgeois movement — the practice of direct action and revolutionary struggle controlled and self-managed by the workers themselves extended to all countries of the world. |
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Texts :: history |
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A Short History of Syndicalism |
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by Workers Solidarity Alliance (WSA) |
02 Sep 2005
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"The International Workers Association was founded in Berlin in 1922, but its origins trace back to the 1860's and the International Working Men's Association, better known as the First International. Most people associate the First International only with Karl Marx and the emerging Social Democratic movement, but the Anarchists and Marxists had actually about the same influence among the workers and in the International." |
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Texts :: struggles |
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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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Texts :: theory |
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A Workers' Guide to Direct Action |
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by Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) |
02 Sep 2005
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"Direct action is any form of guerrilla warfare that cripples the boss' ability to make a profit and makes him/her cave in to the workers' demands. The best-known form of direct action is the strike, in which workers simply walk off their jobs and refuse to produce profits for the boss until they get what they want. This is the preferred tactic of the ACTU "business unions," but is one of the least effective ways of confronting the boss." |
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Texts :: articles |
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A-Infos interviews Arbetaren |
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by Manuel Baptista |
02 Sep 2005
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"We write about struggles and strikes in Sweden and abroad, but we are not making it in a propagandistic way. We are not adopting the style of communist oriented publications that just say "hip-hip-hurrah!". Of course, we are politically oriented in the sense we choose the subjects, but we are not giving a one-sided view. We try to write the truth about the different things. Of course, we write about actions being fought and solidarity demos with workers in Sweden or another countries. It supports and gives strength to these workers, seeing the paper talks about them." |
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