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Capitalist Praise for Anarcho-Syndicalism |
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by Jeremy Sapienza |
02 Sep 2005
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"When you add in the fact that all workers, as union members, have to pay union dues, I'm sorry, but I don't see anything "stateless" here. In fact, it seems to be organized exactly like a political government, complete with decision-making bodies whose decisions are enforceable, organizational hierarchy, and taxation. It doesn't seem that anarcho-syndicalists want to destroy the State so much as they want to become it." |
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Texts :: history |
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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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Chomsky's Economics |
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by James Ostrowski |
02 Sep 2005
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"Syndicalists love to dream about what to do with "existing" businesses and how the workers will take control in a putsch. However, that factory was only there in the first place because some greedy capitalist thought he could make a profit selling widgets, and he invested capital he derived from prior savings. How about starting new businesses? How many workers have the capital to contribute? How many would risk that capital even if they had it, on a business "run democratically by the workers"? " |
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Class Struggle Revamped |
by Soren Jansen
Previously published: (Berlin local paper) Scheinschlag, issue 1/2002 |
02 Sep 2005
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Interview of members of FAU local Berlin by Soren Jansen
"These new working conditions are a problem, but on the other hand they offer us an opportunity because people can no longer stand up for their rights via the traditional intermediary bodies like works committees, etc. The bosses don't need these intermediary bodies any more because they have the power anyway, and there's no radical workers' movement willing or able to stand up to them. The new working conditions are absolutely begging for direct action where you achieve your demands directly. They also call for more radical forms of organization-independent, decentralized, and thus more flexible, so to speak. Capitalism has become more flexible, and workers' organization has to become more flexible to stand up to it." |
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CNT - 100 years of Anarchosyndicalism (1910-2010) |
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by CNT |
02 Nov 2010
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CNT celebrates a 100 years of existence. It's the centennial of a people and the invaluable fights of thousands of people who during these 100 years have given the international working class an exemplary tool to be followed, through its own culture, self organizing capacity, radical tactics, popular extension and revolutionary actions with the aim of building an anti-authoritarian and mutually supportive society. |
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CNT: 100 years of Anarchosyndicalism (1910-2010) |
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by CNT |
02 Nov 2010
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CNT celebrates a 100 years of existence. It's the centennial of a people and the invaluable fights of thousands of people who during these 100 years have given the international working class an exemplary tool to be followed, through its own culture, self organizing capacity, radical tactics, popular extension and revolutionary actions with the aim of building an anti-authoritarian and mutually supportive society.
On November 1, 1910, in the Fine Arts Center of Barcelona, the CNT - Confederación Nacional de Trabajo in Spanish or the National Confederation of Labor - was founded. This organization, successor to the Spanish chapter of the 1st International (1870), was born in the workers movement as the first independent union organization in Spain.
Adopting the internationalist theme of “the emancipation of the workers will be the undertaking of the workers themselves, or will fail,” CNT held in safekeeping popular rebellion which, as a undercurrent of society itself, opposes Power throughout history. This popular feeling emerges triumphal at times throughout history, from the Egyptian Middle Empire to the French Revolution, planting the seeds for the only historical events where humanity has made giant strides in gains of liberty, justice, equality, dignity and progress. |
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Collectives in the Spanish Revolution |
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by Gaston Leval |
02 Sep 2005
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"The ideals pursued by the Spanish anarchists are the same as those followed and propagated by the greatest minds from Plato and perhaps some of the Stoics, right up to our own times. The Spanish revolution achieved what the early Christians were asking, what in the XIVth Century the Jacquerie in France and the English peasants led by John Ball struggled for, and those in Germany whom Thomas Munzer was to lead two centuries later, as well as the English Levellers led by Everard and Winstanley, the Moraves brothers, disciples of Jean Huss. That which Thomas More foresaw in his Utopia, and Francis Bacon, and Campanella in La Citta del Sole and the priest Jean Meslier in his famous Testament (too often ignored) and Morelli in his Naufrage des lles Flottantes, and Mably who like Morelli inspired the noblest minds in the American Revolution, and the enrages of the French Revolution of whom Jacques Roux, the "red priest" was one. And the army of thinkers and reformers of the XIXth Century and of the first thirty years of the present. It is, in world history, the first attempt to apply the dream of all that was best in mankind. It succeeded in achieving, in many cases completely, the finest ideal conceived by the human mind and this will be its permanent glory. " |
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Common Sense Reasons for Workers Self-management |
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by Scott Rittenhouse |
02 Sep 2005
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"Bosses are inefficient! - Many managers create unnecessary work or make you redo work "their way" just to justify their job or to make you think you have to go through them to get your work done. - Many managers create "empires" of things under their centralized control so you can't get resources or information you need to do your day-to-day work. Without a boss, access to these crucial resources would be decentralized and made available based on need." |
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Declaration of principles of AC-Interpro |
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by Associação de Classe Interprofissional |
25 Sep 2006
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AC-INTERPRO is a new anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalis grassroots union in Portugal |
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Declaration of the Principles of Revolutionary Syndicalism |
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by IWA |
16 Oct 2005
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The original 1922 Berlin statement of the IWA principles.
The document has later been amended at several IWA congresses. |
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