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About the significance of anarchosyndicalism |
by Juan Gómez Casas
Previously published: iwa-ait.org |
12 Nov 2006
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We finally enclose an article made by Juan Gómez Casas called “Attention: New definitions about the anarchosyndicalism” It was made in 1983 during CNTE`s 6th Congress, and tells about the content of anarchosyndicalism in an attack against reformism, and might be a contribution in the theoretical and practical magazine decided by the 22nd IWA-Congress. The article was reproduced by the paper "CNT" in June 2001 and is in Spanish, so we make a call to everyone to provide translators and contributors so the magazine can be made as soon as possible!”
It is now translated into English and we put it on the IWA-website. It can be a contribution to the debate previously to the 23rd IWA-Congress which will be in Manchester the 8-9-10th of December 2006! |
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After the Revolution |
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by Diego Abad de Santillan |
04 Sep 2005
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"..in facing the problem of social transformation, the Revolution cannot consider the state as a medium, but must depend on the organisation of producers. We have followed this norm and we find no need for the hypothesis of a superior power to organised labour, in order to establish a new order of things. We would thank anyone to point out to us what function, if any, the State can have in an economic organisation, where private property has been abolished and in which parasitism and special privilege have no place. The suppression of the State cannot be a languid affair; it must be the task of the Revolution to finish with the State. Either the Revolution gives social wealth to the producers in which case the producers organise themselves for due collective distribution and the State has nothing to do; or the Revolution does not give social wealth to the producers, in which case the Revolution has been a lie and the State would continue. Our federal council of economy is not a political power but an economic and administrative regulating power. It receives its orientation from below and operates in accordance with the resolutions of the regional and national assemblies. It is a liaison corps and nothing else." |
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Against War and War Profiteers?: Organize for Freedom! |
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by Workers Solidarity Alliance (WSA) |
08 Nov 2007
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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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Texts :: history |
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An Overview of the Spanish Libertarian Movement |
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by Murray Bookchin |
02 Sep 2005
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"Although the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in July, 1936, was followed by a far-reaching social revolution in the anti-Franco camp - more profound in some respects than the Bolshevik Revolution in its early stages - millions of discerning people outside of Spain were kept in ignorance, not only of its depth and range, but even of its existence, by virtue of a policy of duplicity and dissimulation of which there is no parallel in history." |
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Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism |
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by Rudolf Rocker |
04 Sep 2005
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"Anarchism recognises only the relative significance of ideas, institutions, and social conditions. It is, therefore not a fixed, self enclosed social system, but rather a definite trend in the historical development of mankind, which, in contrast with the intellectual guardianship of all clerical and governmental institutions, strives for the free unhindered unfolding of all the individual and social forces in life. Even freedom is only a relative, not an absolute concept, since it tends constantly to broaden its scope and to affect wider circles in manifold ways. For the Anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility for every human being to bring to full development all capacities and talents with which nature has endowed him, and turn them to social account. The less this natural development of man is interfered with by ecclesiastical or political guardianship, the more efficient and harmonious will human personality become, the more will it become the measure of the intellectual culture of the society in which it has grown." |
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Anarchism and Sovietism |
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by Rudolf Rocker |
08 Oct 2005
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"The idea of "soviets" is a well defined expression of what we take to be social revolution, being an element belonging entirely to the constructive side of socialism. The origin of the notion of dictatorship is wholly bourgeois and as such, has nothing to do with socialism. It is possible to harness the two terms together artificially, if it is so desired, but all one would get would be a very poor caricature of the original idea of soviets, amounting, as such, to a subversion of the basic notion of socialism." |
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Anarchism and the Labor Movement - A Shared History of Conflict and Cooperation |
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by Brian Oliver Sheppard |
04 Sep 2005
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"Luigi Galleani wrote that the "anarchist movement and the labor movement follow two parallel lines, and it has been geometrically proven that parallel lines never meet." (Galleani's comments were, I noticed, prefaced with a note by the editors that they "disagree strongly with" some of Galleani's ideas.) While no mathemetician would argue with Galleani's geometry, a historian might: the real history of the anarchist and labor movements can not be framed in terms so simple or absolute." |
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Anarchism and the Workers' Unions |
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by Fernand Pelloutier |
04 Sep 2005
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"Suppose now that, on the day the revolution breaks out, virtually every single producer is organised into the unions: will these not represent, ready to step into the shoes of the present organisation, a quasi-libertarian organisation, in fact suppressing all political power, an organisation whose every part, being master of the instruments of production, would settle all of its affairs for itself, in sovereign fashion and through the freely given consent of its members? And would this not amount to the "free association of free producers?" |
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Anarchism in Australia |
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by Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation (ASF) |
04 Sep 2005
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"Anarcho-syndicalists see the workplace and the community intimately intertwined, and organises on the bases of local groups and industrial associations. This is a logical consequence of our dual aim -- to struggle for better conditions within existing structures and to build now the structures necessary for the establishment of an anarchist society. Anarcho-syndicalists clearly see the need to have workplace activity supported in the community, and community activity supported in the workplace. Either without the other is ineffective." |
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