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Anarchism in Spain |
by Felix Morrow
Previously published: New International, Vol.4 No.1, January 1938, pp.6-7. |
16 Feb 2006
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Critique of Rudolf Rocker’s "The Tragedy of Spain" by the American Trotskyist Felix Morrow. Morrow was also the author of "Revolution & Counter-Revolution in Spain" (1938). |
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Anarchist Activity in France during World War Two |
by C.I.R.A.
Previously published: C.I.R.A. Bulletin No. 21/22 (Summer, 1984 |
09 Oct 2005
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Summary of material from the C.I.R.A., Marseille, BULLETIN No. 21/22 (Summer, 1984), which had the theme Anarchists and the Resistance. |
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Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution |
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by José Pierats |
02 Sep 2005
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"Anarchism is largely responsible for its own bad reputation in the world. It did not consider the thorny problem of means and ends. In their writings, many anarchists conceived of a miraculous solution to the problem of revolution. We fell easily into this trap in Spain. We believed that "once the dog is dead, the rabies is over." We proclaimed a full-blown revolution without worrying about the many complex problems that a revolution brings with it. Nettlau said that those who believe that a society can change itself overnight through a heroic struggle have not learned the lessons of history. As Bakunin was wont to say, "a people develops extraordinary capacities when it is able to defeat its worst enemy: the State." But we must not forget what we have learned from more recent history (which Bakunin did not experience) - that the state is a virus that can take hold in each of us, and that revolutions set free not only the enslaved masses, but also millions and millions of viruses." |
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Anarcho-syndicalism |
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by Tom Wetzel |
30 Dec 2005
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Text of talk given in New York City, October 2002 |
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Anarcho-Syndicalism |
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by Rudolf Rocker |
04 Sep 2005
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"The term "workers' syndicate" meant in France merely a trade union organisation of producers for the immediate betterment of their economic and social status. But the rise of Anarcho-Syndicalism gave this original meaning a much wider and deeper import. Just as the party is, so to speak, the unified organisation for definite political effort within the modern constitutional state, and seeks to maintain the bourgeois order in one form or another, so, according to the Syndicalist view, the trade union, the syndicate, is the unified organisation of labour and has for its purpose the defence of the interests of the producers within existing society and the preparing for and the practical carrying out of the reconstruction of social life after the pattern of Socialism. It has, therefore, a double purpose: 1. As the fighting organisation of the workers against the employers to enforce the demands of the workers for the safeguarding and raising of their standard of living; 2. As the school for the intellectual training of the workers to make them acquainted with the technical management of production and economic life in general so that when a revolutionary situation arises they will be capable of taking the socio-economic organism into their own hands and remarking it according to Socialist principles." |
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Anarcho-Syndicalism - Catalyst for Workers' Self Organisation Not Leftist Sect Building |
by Mark - Anarcho-Syndicalist Network
Previously published: Rebel Worker, Aug.-Sept. 2005 |
03 Jan 2006
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A history & analysis of workplace struggles in public transport in Australia, particularly in New South Wales over the last 15 years and a discussion of the role of anarcho-syndicalists in assisting these struggles |
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Anarcho-Syndicalism and the Sexual Reform Movement in the Weimar Republic |
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by Dieter Nelles |
29 Aug 2005
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"All workers' organizations are concerned almost exclusively with economic and political issues. Both the parties and the unions view the issue of sex as being insignificant, irrelevant. There once was a time when it was considered to be unrespectable to publicly address problems concerning sexual relations. And yet it is so tremendously important that the sexual issue be addressed without any trace of reticence, just as is the hunger issue. For hunger and love are the two poles around which all human life and drive revolve. These two issues are so closely entwined that is hardly possible to discuss one without considering the other." |
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Anarcho-Syndicalism in Puerto Real |
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by Solidarity Federation - IWA |
02 Sep 2005
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"Today I would like to talk about the rationalisation of the shipyards in Puerto Real in the south-west of Spain and the kind of activities the CNT has been involved in . . . Every Thursday of every week, in the towns and villages in the area, we had all-village assemblies where anyone who was connected with the particular issue, whether they were actually workers in the shipyard itself, or women or children or grandparents, could go along to the village assembly and actually vote and take part in the decision-making process of what was going to take place. So we created a structure which was very different from the kind of structure of political parties, where the decisions are made at the top and they filter down. What we managed to do in Puerto Real was make decisions at the base and take them upwards, which is in complete contrast to the ways in which political parties operate." |
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Anarcho-Syndicalism, an Individualistic Middle Class Trend |
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by Communist Party of New Zealand |
02 Sep 2005
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"Trade unions alone cannot satisfy the organisational needs of the militant proletariat. This is because they cannot go beyond the limits of capitalism, for their object is to improve the conditions of the workers under the capitalist system. The workers, however, want to free themselves entirely from capitalist slavery, they want to smash these limits, and not merely operate within the limits of capitalism." |
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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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