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Review of Syndicalism and the Co-operative Commonwealth |
by Jack Fitzgerald
Previously published: Socialist Standard, July 1913, SPGB |
07 Sep 2007
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A critical review of book by same title by a leading member of the Socialist Party of Great Britain |
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Principles, Statutes and Goals of the International Workers Association |
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by AIT-IWA |
02 Sep 2005
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". . . The duty of the workers is to participate in all actions that lead towards a revolutionary transformation of society, always striving to move towards our final goals. We must make our strength felt through this participation, always striving to give our movement, through propaganda and organization, the necessary means to supplant our adversaries. Similarly, wherever possible, we must realize our social system through the means of model and example, and our organizations must exert, to the limits of their possibilities, the greatest possible influence on other tendencies in order that they may be incorporated into our struggle, which is the common struggle against all statist and capitalist adversaries, always keeping in mind the circumstances of place and time, but remaining faithful to the goals of the movement for workers' emancipation." |
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Unemployment struggle in Gothenburg, Sweden |
by AKO
Previously published: www.riff-raff.se |
21 Aug 2006
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"Unemployment is a weapon aimed at the whole of the working class; the unemployed are being squeezed making the unemployment as unbearable as possible, which leads to dumped wages and working conditions. Because when there is a reserve army of desperate people looking for work, the employers can pick and choose, and through the compulsion by the job centres they can force us into taking low paid as well as unpaid work through traineeship. The goal is that unemployment should become such a hell that underpaid wage slavery would appear as a better alternative." |
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Anarcho-Syndicalism, its Strengths and Weaknesses |
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by Alan MacSimóin |
02 Sep 2005
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"The weakness of syndicalism is rooted in its view of why workers are tied to capitalism, and its view of what is necessary to make the revolution. Spain in 1936/7 represented the highest point in anarcho-syndicalist organisation and achievement. Because of their a-politicism they were unable to develop a programme for workers' power, to wage a political battle against other currents in the workers' movement (such as reformism and Stalinism). Indeed syndicalists seem to ignore other ideas more often than combating them. In Spain they were unable to give a lead to the entire class by fighting for complete workers' power." |
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Trade Union Objections to Anarcho-Syndicalism |
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by Albert Meltzer |
03 Sep 2005
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"Trade unionists often regard anarcho-syndicalism as a direct menace, sometimes viewing the Anarchist objections to authoritarian leadership and to the closed shop as equivalent with Conservative attacks on free trade unionism." |
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American Revolutionary Industrial Unionism |
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by Albert Weissbord |
27 Mar 2007
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"VERY different from the Anarcho-Syndicalism of the French was the Syndicalism of the Americans which developed in the twentieth century (1905-1918). By the twentieth century the United States had become a vast industrial country of enormous size and titanic strength. We have pointed out the basic causes that led to such an enduring and deep-seated Liberalism in this country and those tendencies which could foster an Anarchist ideology. To these forces we must add the following to complete the picture and to show why Syndicalism grew and why it took the form that it did."
From: THE CONQUEST OF POWER:LIBERALISM, ANARCHISM, SYNDICALISM, SOCIALISM,
FASCISM AND COMMUNISM,1937, by Albert Weisbord
Weisbord was the communist leader of the Passaic,New Jersey (USA) NJ textile strike of 1926.He later fell out with the stalinists and then the trotskyists. |
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To our Comrades Everywhere |
by Alexander Berkman
Previously published: International Institute for Social History |
13 Oct 2005
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Alexander Berkman's advocacy of Rudolph Rocker's right to be published in the Berlin syndicalist paper "Free Worker". In spite of whatever internal problems that were occuring between the German comrades, Berkman requested an end to the in-fighting and argued for Rocker's right to be heard in the "Free Worker". |
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Sacco and Vanzetti |
by Alexander Berkman & Emma Goldman
Previously published: The Road to Freedom, Vol 5, Aug 1929 |
13 Nov 2005
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Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman co-authored this aricle as a tribute to the executed Italian-American anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti. The article is both a tribute to the memory of Sacco and Vanzetti, as well as a damnation of the State.
Originally published in the American anarchist publication "The Road to Freedom" published in New York City in the mid-late 1920s. |
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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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