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The Union Makes Us Strong? Syndicalist unions began to become a significant factor in the decade before the First World War, as both a reflection of the ongoing class struggle and as the result of the efforts of consciously “political” minorities critical of “socialist” parliamentarism. The syndicalist movement was certainly attractive to many anarchists who, having seen their influence wane following the period of "propaganda by the deed" (the 1890s), saw in syndicalism”s combativity and distrust of parliamentary methods a “natural” home for their politics. Whilst the Italian “revolutionary” syndicalists flirting with extreme nationalism from 1914 onwards, demanding that Italy join the imperialist bloodbath (a demand totally opposed, to their great credit, by the anarcho-syndicalists of the Union Sindicale Italiana) is probably the most graphic example of syndicalist political alliances, many others existed. www.spunk.org /texts/groups/acf/sp001766.html   (3633 words)

Syndicalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For syndicalists, labor unions are the potential means both of overcoming capitalism and of running society in the interests of the majority. Industry and government in a syndicalist society would be run by labor union federations. Syndicalists often form alliances with other workers' movements, including socialism, communism, and anarchism. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Syndicalist   (464 words)

A Critique of Syndicalist Methods In this paper both the principles of syndicalist apoliticism and the principles of the struggle against the bosses for the abolition of wages were established. Even if it were libertarian syndicalists to put such an action into effect, anarcho-syndicalists capable of silencing any tendency to authoritarianism determined by the structure of the organisation, the revolutionary tension would be something that was being imposed on the mass. Some comrades draw the conclusion that the syndicalist body or union should be considered a "public service": “Actually only a small part of the proletariat become conscious of the cycle "produce, consume, be alienated" imposed by capitalism, but this small part is recuperated by capitalism (with the help of the unions). www.geocities.com /kk_abacus/ioaa/critsynd.html   (17134 words)

Mises, Human Action, Part 6, Chapter XXXIII: Library of Economics and Liberty The root of the syndicalist idea is to be seen in the belief that entrepreneurs and capitalists are irresponsible autocrats who are free to conduct their affairs arbitrarily. What the syndicalist considers the most serious defect of the capitalist system and disparages as the brutality and callousness of autocratic profit-seekers is precisely the outcome of the supremacy of the consumers. The syndicalist principle requires that the shares of every corporation should be taken away from "absentee ownership" and be equally distributed among the employees; payment of interest and principal of debts is to be discontinued. www.econlib.org /library/mises/hma/msHmA33.html   (3369 words)

[No title] Certainly not all anarcho- syndicalists would be unsympathetic to, say, eco- anarchism or a communitarian anarchism that is concerned with confederations of villages, towns, and cities, but a degree of dogmatism and stodgy fixity persists among worker- oriented anarchists that I believe should hardly be characteristic of left libertarians generally. The involvement of anarchists with the IWMA reinforced the vague syndicalist trend that certainly had existed in their movement before the word "anarcho- syndicalism" was coined. In France, where the ostensibly syndicalist General Confederation of Labor (CGT) generated the strong syndicalistic emphasis among anarchists throughout the world at the turn of the century, the union was never itself anarcho-syndicalist. dwardmac.pitzer.edu /Anarchist_Archives/bookchin/ghost2.html   (7180 words)

Syndicalists in the Russian Revolution - Maximov | libcom.org Although the Russian proletariat was, as a whole, entirely ignorant of the ideas of Revolutionary Syndicalism, and despite the scarcity of Anarcho Syndicalist literature, as well as an almost total lack of representatives of this movement among the Russian workers; despite all that, the labour movement of all Russia went along the road of decentralisation. In Petrograd Golos Trouda, Kharkov Rabochaya Mysl, Krasnoyarsk Sibirsky Anarchist, in Moscow a revolutionary Syndicalist organ Rabochaya Zhizn, etc. The Anarcho-Syndicalists were represented in numerous Factory Committees and trade unions, where they were carrying on intensive propaganda. Scattered throughout the Bolshevik unions, the Anarcho-Syndicalist forces could not show any resistance and were flattened by the iron policy of the "Dictatorship of the Proletariat". libcom.org /library/syndicalists-in-russian-revolution-maximov   (5077 words)

The I.W.W. in Australia by Mark McGuire This is shown by the adoption of approximations of the C.G.T.'s (the General Confederation of Trade Unions, the French anarcho syndicalist union set up in 1895 with a peak membership of 600,000) constitution -and preamble, by the other member unions of the movement. Such a media would act as a counter to bourgeois ideology, spread the syndicalist ideas or create a climate in which they could be accepted and act as a rallying point in times during which syndicalist influenced working class struggles took place. Given these changes, the syndicalist movement in Australia could have withstood state repression as the syndicalists in Spain have done on many occasions and could have gone on to syndicalize the organized workers movement in Australia. www.takver.com /history/iwwinoz.htm   (1929 words)

Search Results for "Syndicalist" ...Sorel's (1847-1922) Reflexions sur la violence supplied a theoretical background for the syndicalist movement, an outgrowth of anarchism that aimed at destruction... Like anarchists, syndicalists believe that any form of state is an instrument of oppression... Oil workers organized the Syndicalist Labor Federation of Venezuela in 1928, which found support... www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=&query=Syndicalist   (219 words)

JackRoss.net Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) It is completely logical therefore that we should look to the historic syndicalist movement to yield at least some if not the bulk of answers for what radicals and progressives should stand for and seek as an alternative in our time. We must then look back to the syndicalist idea in the time of Tucker and George, and its influence on the American labor movement which was just coming into being in their time. Subscribing to this syndicalist outlook and first establishing itself in opposition to the notions of political action toward “cooperative commonwealth” which defined the then-dominant Populist movement, the programmatic doctrine of the early AFL was therefore essentially “Austrian syndicalist”, and the greatest advocate of this dispensation was the father of the American labor movement, Samuel Gompers. www.jackross.net /article.php?article=6   (1446 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Irean claims that it is a group which carries on anarcho- syndicalist propaganda in contrast to KAS which, according to them "refuses to join the IWA and doesn't form anarcho- syndicalist unions". Few members of Irean carry on syndicalist work but those that do should know how hard it is to form independent syndicalist unions and that these can't be formed from thin air. We feel that it is necessary to strengthen contacts with all anarcho-syndicalists, revolutionary syndicalists and libertarian socialist organizations, including those in the IWA and those who don't work with this organization. www.textfiles.com /politics/SPUNK/sp000138.txt   (1424 words)

Institute for Social Ecology - To Remember Spain: The Anarcist and Syndicalist Revolution of 1936 Although syndicalist unions formed the major arena of anarchist activity in Europe, anarchist theorists were mindful that it would not be too difficult for reformist leaders in syndicalist unions to shift organizational control from the bottom to the top. They viewed syndicalism as a change in focus from the commune to the trade union, from all the oppressed to the industrial proletariat, from the streets to the factories, and, in emphasis at least, from insurrection to the general strike. To see in trade unions (whether syndicalist or not) an inherent potentiality for revolutionary struggle is to assume that the interests of workers and capitalists, merely as classes, are intrinsically incompatible. www.social-ecology.org /article.php?story=20031118111045472   (8156 words)

Nation, Centralist and Syndicalist Socialism The syndicalistically organized state would be no socialist state but a state of worker capitalism, since the individual worker groups would be owners of the capital. In many respects they have directly furthered the development of the syndicalist line of thinking, since they fought the development toward centralist socialism that was taking place under the leadership of statist socialism. Sabotage is syndicalistic; in the final analysis, however, every strike is also syndicalistic; the demand for introduction of the social protective tariff is syndicalistic. www.mises.org /nsande/pt3ch3.asp   (2402 words)

Georges Sorel Sometimes incomprehensible spirit behind the French "syndicalist" movement that sparked in 1895 in an attempt to recapture the initiative away from reformist state socialists and bring the workers' movement back to its roots in the revolutionary anarcho-socialism of Proudhon and Bakunin that had so shaken the world back in the 1840s and 1850s. Although he claimed himself to be a Marxian, Sorel held a deep suspicion for "armchair socialists", particularly those who mumbled about the inevitability of "progress". He kept himself at an arm's distance from actual sabotage, boycotts and strikes conducted by the syndicalist movement in the early part of the century. cepa.newschool.edu /het/profiles/sorel.htm   (234 words)

Institute for Social Ecology - The Ghost of Anarcho-Syndicalism To be told, as anarcho-syndicalist theorist Helmut Rüdiger wrote in 1949, that syndicalism is the "only" ideology "that can relate anarchistic ideas to working people--that is, to the larger part of the population" [der großen Menge der Bevölkerung] seems a cruel joke in the world of the 1990s (Rüdiger, 1949, p. At least the author of so sweeping a claim was an old-timer, an editor of Arbetaren (a Swedish syndicalist weekly), and he penned them in 1949, when it was still unclear that the proletariat had ceased to be the "hegemonic" revolutionary class that it seemed to be a decade earlier. In cases where the CNT actually achieved syndicalist control, "the union became like a large firm," notes Fraser in his remarkable oral history of the civil war, Blood of Spain. www.social-ecology.org /article.php?story=20031117104326287   (7191 words)

10th Congress -- On the Syndicalist and Anarchist Deviation in our Party Instead of taking account of precisely this practical experience of participation in administration, instead of developing this experience further, in strict accord with achieved successes and corrected mistakes, the syndicalists and anarchists declare outright the slogan of 'congresses or a congress of producers,' who 'are to elect' the bodies which manage the economy. In a country like Russia, the immense preponderance of petty bourgeois elements and the inevitable destruction, impoverishment, epidemics, poor harvest, and extreme cases of need and human calamity that resulted from the war, give rise to particularly grave manifestations of waverings in the state of mind of the petty bourgeois and semi-proletarian masses. Therefore, the views of the 'Workers' Opposition' and similar elements are not only theoretically false, but serve in practice as the expression of petty bourgeois and anarchist vacillations; in practice, they weaken the steadfast guiding line of the Communist Party and in fact aid the class enemies of the proletarian revolution. www.marxists.org /history/ussr/government/party-congress/10th/16b.htm   (649 words)

syndtrials   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Tom Mann, a seasoned militant and leader of the Syndicalist Movement, drew the attention of public meetings in Manchester to the fact that the authorities were having premises prepared as temporary barracks and were concentrating military forces a few miles out of the city. He was not a syndicalist and the law had already been vindicated by the sentences passed on Tom Mann and the others who were. Whereas the syndicalists were sentenced to periods of imprisonment, Carson and Smith were destined to serve the State in a variety of capacities. recollectionbooks.com /siml/library/syndtrials.html   (2841 words)

Historisk tidsskrift Quite a few of them were Swedish syndicalists entering Norway in the wake of the lost General Strike in Sweden in 1909; others came to seek employment in the huge construction works of the electrometallurgical and electrochemical industry that sprung up in Norway in the period 1916-17. It is admitted that the Opposition seems to have much of its theory in common with syndicalism and that it attracted many potential syndicalists. It is, nevertheless, argued that the Opposition was not syndicalist - nor half syndicalist as is often maintained. www.uit.no /ht/sum/981-2.html   (496 words)

A Libertarian Manifesto for the 21st Century, Libertarian International Solidarity While this new network assures that it does not intend to replace existing federations, such as the International of Anarchist Federations or the International Workers Association, the IWA views its formation as part of what it sees as a longstanding effort by CGT-E and SAC to establish a rival, reformist international. However, the LIS is clearly not a syndicalist international. Most of the political organizations are "Platformist" in orientation and tend to favor a strategy of working within the reformist unions. libertariansocialism.4t.com /db/db020107.htm   (4652 words)

Syndicalism - Uncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) In the civil war against general Franco in 1936-39 the anarchists led the shootings while the syndicalists did the talking, a joint venture that has kept on ever since. This has lead to the conclusion that the syndicalist ideology, which consists to 95% of a simple organization scheme, is under the influence of Kurt Gödels Incompleteness Theorem. The syndicalist practice consists of a numerous tactics on how to achieve specified limited goals such as raising salary, improving labor safety, score receptionists, keeping jobs, getting rid of jobs and instead live on social security. uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Syndicalism   (1217 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Perhaps what should trouble the international syndicalist movement is the prospect that this may lead to IREAN's recognition as the IWA's affiliate in Russia, and put an end to IWA efforts to bring KAS and CMOT into the international. Whether this was the IWA's intention or not, by giving official recognition to IREAN, the IWA is furthering a split in the syndicalist movement of that country and may be cutting itself off from the majority of Russian syndicalists. The policy of the IWA should be to seek the widest solidarity between syndicalist organizations of all countries. www.textfiles.com /politics/SPUNK/sp000361.txt   (602 words)

Rebel Worker and Accountability by John Englart The arguments and passions engendered by the split in the Jura Books Collective during 1982, certainly is a factor to explain the events at the meeting, but subsequent problems with accountability of Rebel Worker shows that the problems were real and have never been resolved. Subsequent syndicalist organisation is briefly detailed, including the conflict at the 1992 Congress of the Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation (in part over the status of Rebel Worker)., and the revival of the Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation in the late 1990s, and the IWW in the 1990's. The Anarcho Syndicalist Federation (ASF) initiative of establishing Passenger Support Groups was another major innovation which allowed members of the community to show their support for the trammies. www.takver.com /history/sydney/rebelworker.htm   (2789 words)

SYNDICALISM Before Mussolini crushed the workers movement, the USI was an explicitly syndicalist movement which has hundreds of thousands of workers organized, but in never took power beyond several general strikes. re: theorists on syndicalism, Blanqui was *not* a syndicalist, Proudhon was kinda a proto-syndicalistic. For a syndicalist "state" think of the syndicalist union write big - ie every workplace as part of the union, in the federation. www.h-net.org /~labor/threads/thrsyndicalism.html   (2187 words)

Joe Black, Syndicalist unions in Siberia Recently we received details of one of the newer syndicalist unions, the Siberian Confederation of Labour (SKT). The existence of syndicalist unions like the SKT demonstrate that we can run our unions without the sort of bureaucratic structures that are currently typical of Irish Trade unions. Such syndicalist unions would then have a major part to play in the revolutionary transformation of society. www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/56/010.html   (696 words)

National Syndicalist Party USA | Fighting for the people! Not so, because in April of 2006, a few lone patriots took it upon themselves to say, "Enough is enough." Sure, some people have said that before, but usually they either say it to promote their own little agenda or just give up after a few months, not so with us. We in the National Syndicalist Party consider ourselves to be neither left nor right. The National Syndicalist Party can imagine that, and we are ready and willing to work toward that great and glorious future for every man, woman, and child. www.freewebs.com /nationalsyndicalistparty   (659 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) The article is significant because it suggests a thaw in the relations between the SAC and the IWA (syndicalist international federation). Relations with the IWA and CNT The Spanish Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) invited anarchist and syndicalist worker-organizations from the entire world to a conference in Barcelona in August 1992. The only variation from an average Swedish syndicalist debate was the portion which zeroes in upon and attacked the church. www.textfiles.com /politics/SPUNK/sp000382.txt   (2919 words)

Lorenzo Komboa Ervin: Refusing The "Syndicalist v. Primitivist" Debate I speak before all kinds of audiences, but especially Anarchists of all stripes: syndicalists, anti-globalists, Platformists, ABC federations, Black autonomists, as well as all kinds of independent radicals. They don't feel that we have anything to contribute to a social revolution, except as members of their federations or parties. So, I am not joining any totally white movement: syndicalist, primitivist, Libertarian Marxist, Anarchist or otherwise, but I will consider political arguments from any such tendencies, and may even incoprorate parts of them. lemming.mahost.org /abr/refusing.htm   (891 words)

Debate on Australian Anarcho-Syndicalism - Indonesia / Philippines / Australia Anarchist movement - Anarkismo Traditionally there has always been a strong syndicalist current within working class struggles during the last 100 years and this has meant union bureaucrats have had to be far more receptive to the views of rank-and-file members, despite conflicts within the unions. Success in this sector will enable the wiping out of the existing bureaucratic unionism via future syndicalist organising drives in various industries assisted by syndicalist transport workers and the general raising of the morale in the workers’ movement stemming from major victories won by the direct action of transport workers. It is this sort of activity in contrast to Greg’s fascination with purely “spontaneous” activity of workers which has led to sectors of the labour movement taking on a syndicalist direction. www.anarkismo.net /newswire.php?story_id=3281   (2417 words)

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