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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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Deep Ecology, Anarcho-Syndicalism and the Future of Anarchist Thought |
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by Murray Bookchin |
02 Sep 2005
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"In practice, anarchist groups often came into outright conflict with anarchosyndicalist organisations - not to speak of syndicalist organizations, many of which eschewed anarchism. Early in the century, the Spanish anarchocommunists, influenced primarily by Juan Baron and Francisco Cardinal, the editors of Tierra y Libertad, furiously denounced the anarchosyndicalists who were later to forrn the CNT as 'deserters' and 'reformists'. Similar conflicts developed in Italy, France, and the United States, and perhaps not without reason. The record of the anarchosyndicalist movement has been one of the most abysmal in the history of anarchism generally. In the Mexican Revolution, for example, the anarchosyndicalist leaders of the Casa del Obrero Mundial shamefully placed their proletarian 'Red Battalions ' at the service of Carranza, one of the revolution's most bloodthirsty thugs, to fight the truly revolutionary militia of Zapata - all to obtain a few paltry reforms, which Carranza withdrew once the Zapatista challenge had been broken with their collaboration. The great Mexican anarchist Ricardo Flores Magon justly denounced their behaviour as a betrayal. Nor can much be said in defence of the leaders of the CNT in Spain" |
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Defeat the resurgence of the workerist tendency |
by ANC Today
Previously published: Volume ANC Today Vol 7, No. 36 | 14-20 September 2007 |
20 Oct 2007
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"In this article we reflect on some of the ideological and theoretical issues relating to anarcho-syndicalism to reinforce the understanding of our readers and members about what our movement, the ANC, must do to defend itself and the national democratic revolution." |
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Defence of the IWA and anarchosyndicalism |
by IWA/AIT Secretariat
Previously published: iwa-ait.org |
12 Nov 2006
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Report from the Secretariat to the 23rd IWA-Congress in Manchester the 8-9-10th of December 2006 |
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Direct Action |
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by Emile Pouget |
03 Sep 2005
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"Direct Action . . . implies that the working class subscribes to notions of freedom and autonomy instead of genuflecting before the principle of authority. Now, it is thanks to this authority principle, the pivot of the modern world - democracy being its latest incarnation - that the human being, tied down by a thousand ropes, moral as well as material, is bereft of any opportunity to display will and initiative." |
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Direct Action Against Capitalist Europe! |
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by Red and Black Coordination |
28 Apr 2008
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When, throughout Europe, "leftwing" Governments, as well as rightwing ones have similar policies : public services are broken up and privatised, working conditions are under attack from casualisation, subsidies to the bosses, attacks on the welfare system, and pensions, ... |
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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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DISCUSSION: Anarchist Tactics in Spain |
by Syndicalist
Previously published: The New International, March 1938 |
07 Aug 2006
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Critical discussion piece on CNT-AIT which appeared in the Trotskyist New International, Vol.4 No.3, March 1938, pp.80-82. |
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Divided and Ruled - Racism and Sexism |
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by Class War |
29 Aug 2005
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"Even though discrimination against women predates capitalism, the economic exploitation of women has become an integral part of our economic system. Women are still much more likely to have part time or casual jobs than men. But even more far reaching than this is the huge amount of work that women do which is unpaid, such as housework, cooking, child care etc (often even when they have jobs as well). This unpaid work rears the next generation of workers for the capitalist entirely free of charge. You don't have to be a genius to see why this is a good deal for the capitalist class. This situation is the economic basis of sexism. Needless to say the capitalist will never pay more than a pittance for this work. The idea of "wages for housework" is an illusion. We believe the only real solution to low pay and no pay for women is removing capitalism. " |
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Dole Autonomy Versus the Re-Imposition of Work |
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by Aufheben |
29 Aug 2005
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"The global advance of 'neo-liberalism' has been given fresh impetus in Britain by the election of the New Labour government. Under Blair's leadership, the Labour Party has abandoned its traditional commitment to social democracy and has fully embraced the neo-liberal project originally pioneered by Margaret Thatcher. However, whereas Thatcher was obliged to attack the social consensus that had been built up on the basis of the post-war social democratic settlement, Blair is seeking to build a new 'one-nation' consensus around the on-going attacks on wages, working conditions and welfare entailed by the neo-liberal agenda." |
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