Anarcho-syndicalist book available

I am about 2/3 thru it. I'd concur with Akai.

I'd also encourage comrades to buy the book and support the good comrades who work at Black Cat Press.

is this available in the UK? the AK US site has $14 postage and doesn't take paypal/debit cards

Email Malcolm at info@blackcatpress.ca It takes about a day or so for them to reply. Solid comrades.

Cheers, i've dropped them an email

the book is pretty decent enough. i plan on doing a book review when i finish up. i'm familiar with a lot of the sources and have read many of them, so i get a decent enoug feel for what he's saying.

Most already informed anarcho-syndicalist libcom readers would find, I think, the following chapters and/or section's of interest:

Vadim approaches his history and perspectives from a sort of FORAista anarchist-communism (he uses "anarcho-communism"). So this adds a bit of pepper to the outlook.

As I usually do, I seem to read in a yiddish manner, from left to right, so I actually read the last chapters first. I was disappointed in the "Anarcho-syndicalism After World War II" chapter. Not for what it says, but for what it doesn't.

On the overall, I think most folks looking for a short, well written and well document book on the IWA (from a pro-IWA perspective) will generally be satisfied with the book.

BTW, another valuable book worth a read, also published by Black Cat Press, is The International Anarchist Congress of Amsterdam (1907) ANTONIOLI, Maurizio (ed.)
English edition and translation by Nestor McNab http://raforum.info/spip.php?article5713&lang=fr Some anarcho-syndicalists may not agree with the editor's intro comments, as he editor takes a "dual organizational" approach. This is reflected in his introduction. The book itself has great merit and is one of those "hidden treasures" for history geeks such as myself. The book gives a good feel for the movement in the very early years of the 1900s. Much push and pull and debate. Much flavor as to the state of the movement and debates. Of note, the discussions and presentations on the Russian Revolution of 1905.

This may well be true, but he does talk about the IWA in the 1970s and 1980s. A read of this section is almost like a read of CNT cheer-leading, with things ending with the valiant Puerto Real struggle. But he does make an abbriviated effort in discussing the post war years. So, I think he could've tied it up better, even in an abbreviated fashion.

Whatever criticisms I may have of the book, ther are offered in a comradely and non-hostile manner.

My only complaint was his hostile description of platformism. Also, not a lot on the later years....I've learned more about 1970-2000s from threads on here.

Otherwise, good small book and I'm glad I bought it.

Akai, I offer my criticisms in a constructive manner. You may not agree with them and that's cool. I thik the book has much too offer, but there are flaws. I think the flaws would be more for the uninformed reader then someone who's either in the IWA or close to it.

Probably gonna read this again, anymore of ya'll get through it yet?

Yeah I just read it too. I found the information on the theoretical debates within the IWA really interesting, such as the FORA position, as well as the transition from Revolutionary Syndicalism to Anarcho-Syndicalism and their tactical / ideological differences.

Criticisms: agree with some of the posts above about content after WW2. Also my copy had a chapter in the wrong place (bibliography essay before the Russian Chapter) and would have been cool to have a bibliography listed. Footnotes are good though.

I know there's some info in Spanish on FORA but does anyone know of more info on them in English (apart from the zine here on Libcom)?

Did you see this?

Yeah I have, thanks though. I'm really keen on reading more about the FORA's positions/ideology. Damier's book was the first time I'd read the variations in one place.

http://libcom.org/tags/FORA

Thanks. Here's the links from Wiki:

Would be great to read any more writing by Emilio López Arango. Sounds like he contributed a lot of the theory to FORA. He has a wiki page too: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio_López_Arango
(need to translate it)

I'm currently reading this. I'm interested in translating El Anarquismo en el Movimiento Obrero but I may translate some CNT-related stuff first, as it is their centenary this year.

Awesome! Feel like translating La FORA while your at it...

I've just reviewed this book here: http://libcom.org/library/anarcho-syndicalism-20th-century-review

Jared