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Anarcho-Syndicalism, Racism and Struggle |
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by Direct Action Movement - IWA |
29 Aug 2005
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"To be anti-racist it is not only necessary to be against racism and scum like the nazis (I'll get around to them later), it is also necessary to be against the STATE, (whatever colour flag the government waves), against the bosses and finally against the patronising and racist race relations industry. To be truly anti-racist one must also campaign actively for racial unity, the unity of the working class. True anti-racism is also anti-statism, if the state is smashed the whole racist structure is smashed. And without state protection how long will the nazis last?" |
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Anarcho-Syndicalism, Technology and Ecology |
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by Graham Purchase |
29 Aug 2005
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"The wider anarchist movement . . . has always distrusted large-scale, wasteful industrial practices and deplored the regimentation involved in work and the factory system, and has placed its faith in the self-governing, environmentally integrated community. Anarcho-syndicalists should review the intellectual insights of the broad anarchist movement to a much greater extent than they have. Otherwise, anarcho-syndicalism will become just another tired, 19th-century socialist philosophy with an overly optimistic assessment of the liberatory potential of mass industrial culture." |
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Anarchy Against Capitalism and Socialism |
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by Chris Wilson |
02 Sep 2005
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"Even socialist anarchists admit that the actions of the CNT were often abusive and authoritarian, not the least of which was its leaders' decision to submit to the direction of the state and Leninist forces to "fight fascism". In various locations throughout the world, nations no less free (and in certain respects, freer) than the U.S. have successfully implemented mixed economies containing elements of both market-based exchange and socialism without the use of death squads or gulags. Needless to say, none of them abolished the role of capital or the state. These failed attempts at stateless socialism are a direct consequence of the innate hierarchy of large-scale organization combined with a refusal to realize that power always corrupts, even when delegated democratically. " |
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Anatomy of a Struggle |
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by Confederation Nationale du Travail (CNT-AIT) |
02 Sep 2005
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"The CNT-AIT section among the municipal workers in Blagnac (France) was formed in March 1998 with a small nucleus of militants and some openly sympathetic municipal employees. Starting from the need for freedom of expression and action the new section soon pinpointed two primary issues among the problems facing the wageworkers in the public service - the problems of discriminatory bonuses and casual labor." |
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Animal Liberation: Devastate to Liberate, or Devastatingly Liberal? |
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by Anonymous |
29 Aug 2005
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"Today, in the striving for a more tolerable society, the individual is misled into giving themselves up for the glorification of an abstraction. Be that animal liberation, socialism, anti-sexism or whatever. People seem to have unconsciously assumed that their life's desires are unattainable so instead of fighting for themselves, they end up fighting for an ideal or a cause, which gives them the illusion of self-activity. So many individuals remain oblivious to the fact that their attempts to change society are permitted and even encouraged, as long as they alter or change nothing fundamental to the maintenance of class society, or worse, realise this, but cynically go along with it for the ride anyway." |
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“Syndicalism“ |
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by Daniel De Leon |
28 Dec 2005
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Critique of syndicalism by American leader of the Socialist Labor Party in August of 1909. |
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“The Poverty of Statism” |
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by Rudolph Rocker |
03 Sep 2007
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Rudoplh Rocker's critique of marxism |
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Texts :: theory : documents |
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Basic Anarcho-Syndicalism (Anarcosindicalismo Basico) |
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by Local Federation of the CNT-AIT Sevilla |
04 Sep 2005
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"Anyone can voluntarily belong to the anarcho-union, with the exception of police, soldiers and members of security forces. No ideological qualification is necessary to be in the CNT. This is because the CNT is anarcho-syndicalist, that is, it is an organization in which decisions are made in assembly, from the base. It is an autonomous, federalist structure independent of political parties, of government agencies, of professional bureaucracies, etc. The anarcho-union only requires a respect for its rules, and from this point of view people of different opinions, tendencies and ideologies can live together within it. Ecologists, pacifists, members of political parties .. can be part of the CNT. There will always be different opinions, priorities and points of view about concrete problems. What everyone has in common within the anarcho-union is its unique way of functioning, its anti-authoritarian structure." |
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Bump Me Into Parliament |
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by Bill Casey |
29 Aug 2005
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Song of the Industrial Workers of the World, Australia |
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Call for a First of May of Class Struggle |
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by CNT International |
21 Apr 2009
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Today’s current crisis of Capitalism is placing workers in front of two well-defined options: either keep on being subjected to an authoritarian and inegalitarian economic and social system, or build up resistances in order to impose a fair deal of wealth, and have our rights and freedom respected. |
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