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The Standpoint of Syndicalism |
by Louis Levine
Previously published: The Outlook for Industrial Peace (Nov., 1912), pp. 114-118 |
04 Nov 2006
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"To those who are anxious to bring about peace between labor and capital on the basis of existing economic and legal institutions, the Syndicalist must necessarily appear as a disturbing factor in the situation. The Syndicalist will not deny this nor will he be forced to change his attitude either by denunciation or by persecution. From his own standpoint, the Syndicalist believes that he is merely sincere in looking facts in the face, logical in drawing the proper conclusions from them, and rationally optimistic in seeing through the mist of the contradictory present the rising sun of a socially harmonious future." |
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The Tragedy of Spain |
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by Rudolf Rocker |
02 Sep 2005
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"July 19th was the anniversary of the day on which a gang of militarist adventurers rose against the republican regime in Spain and, with the assistance of outside powers and foreign troops, plunged the country into a bloody war. This murderous war has thus far devoured nearly a million human lives, among them thousands of women and children, and has transformed wide stretches of the country into desert wastes. The profound tragedy of this bloody drama lies in the fact that it is not just an ordinary civil war, but a struggle, as well, between two different foreign power-groups that is being waged today on Spanish soil. Two hostile imperialist camps are struggling for the natural resources of a foreign country and the strategic advantage of its coasts. The prosecution of this war is, moreover, having an unmistakable influence on the struggle of the Spanish people for freedom, and this influence is today constantly manifesting itself more clearly in the intestine warfare between the revolutionary and the counter-revolutionary forces of the country." |
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The Tragic Week in May |
by Augustin Souchy
Previously published: www.fondation-besnard.org |
02 May 2006
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An account of the fighting in Barcelona in May 1937 when the Communists consolidated their hold on power and turned decisively against the anarchists and revolutionary workers. |
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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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The W.S.A.'s Origins |
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by Workers Solidarity Alliance |
23 Sep 2005
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A short history of the Workers Solidarity Alliance |
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Theses on the Cultural Organization of Russia |
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by Second All-Russian Conference of Anarcho-Syndicalists, 1918 |
29 Aug 2005
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"In the area of culture and education the Second All-Russian Conference of Anarcho-Syndicalists sets as its goals . . . To seek ways and means of developing the initiative and creativity of the masses. This will help improve conditions within the framework of the present bourgeois state socialist order. It will also make it possible for the proletariat to create its own socialist -- as opposed to bourgeois -- culture and its own art, which will reflect the shining beauty and magnificence of stateless socialism and open to the human mind the widest prospects and possibilities." |
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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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Tough times demand a tough response |
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by CNT France |
01 Oct 2009
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Defeats seem to govern our times: massive increases in redundancy; the suicides of workers devastated by the management policies of France Telecom and Renault; the expulsion of undocumented residents (sans-papiers) by the police in Calais or by the "security" group of the CGT in Paris; crackdown on unions in Kanaky (USTKE), Nîmes (CNT), Grenoble (CNT), and elsewhere; the firing of Flash-Ball guns, maiming our youth; the reduction of the farmers' community to despair; the destruction of public utilities; the indifference of the political class toward the employees of Molex, ready to blow up their equipment for a more decent life; racist talk from a minister encouraged by his peers. |
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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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