Looking for info on anarchists and the Winnipeg general strike of 1919

Submitted by syndicalist on April 28, 2019

Looking for info on anarchists and the Winnipeg general strike of 1919

syndicalist

4 years 11 months ago

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Submitted by syndicalist on May 2, 2019

Nada?

mollymew

4 years 11 months ago

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Submitted by mollymew on May 11, 2019

The place to look isn't under the heading of "anarchism" but rather "syndicalism" or "revolutionary syndicalism". The events in Winnipeg were very much informed by the attitude of people who formed the One Big Union (OBU) which was syndicalist and opposed both parliamentary reformism and conspiratorial Leninism. [Here's](http://www.socialisthistory.ca/Docs/Imposs/Impossibilists1.htm) one source that explains this tendency, often called "impossibilist". Anarchists of the time in Winnipeg would have aligned themselves with the OBU if they were at all concerned with labour issues. I've had little luck in ferreting out the copies of the OBU Bulletin which apparently exist in the Manitoba Archives but are not accessible (error messages). Maybe you will have better luck.

syndicalist

4 years 11 months ago

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Submitted by syndicalist on May 13, 2019

Thank you. Ive actually seen this before.

altemark

4 years 11 months ago

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Submitted by altemark on May 16, 2019

Nothing specific, but I find CBC ideas often is sympathetic to anarchism, maybe due to several of its editors having been anarchists or had anarchist leanings:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1919-winnipeg-general-strike-100-years-later-1.5136887

comradeEmma

4 years 11 months ago

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Submitted by comradeEmma on May 16, 2019

Not anarchist but https://cosmonaut.blog/2019/05/15/the-winnipeg-general-strike-from-revolt-to-revolution/

ajjohnstone

4 years 11 months ago

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Submitted by ajjohnstone on May 16, 2019

articles by myself on the OBU and the Winnipeg Strike

https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2010s/2019/no-1375-march-2019/the-one-big-union/

https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2010s/2019/no-1377-may-2019/a-hundred-years-ago-the-winnipeg-general-strike/

But neither explores any anarchist influences