Anarchist Syndicalist Workers Collective
Oct 26 2009 19:57
Anarchist Syndicalist Workers Collective is a local London workers solidarity collective. We believe in workers' solidarity, direct action, and workers' self-maagement as a means of ending class society.
We are organising or involved in local campaigns both in the community and in workplaces. We do however focus most of our efforts on workplace struggles. This we believe is where class struggle is at its most intense and consequently is potentially the most effective point of attack.
We think that too many anarchists hide their true colors when engaging with workmates and 'ordinary' people in workplace disputes and solidarity actions. Being open about our politics is important to us so we patiently work, openly as anarchists naturally, with others in an effort to achieve good level of understanding and a mutually beneficial relationship.
Our immediate ambition is for a more effective anarchist movement. This movement has to prefigure the future society we desire. To build the movement we need means firstly working collectively with like minded workmates, neighbours and comrades around us by building genuinely effective and autonomous local community and workplace groups and simultaneously creating effective networks of local groups with those further afield. This, we strongly believe, is the only way to build a potentially revolutionary bottom up working class movement avoiding the pitfalls of bureaucracy from above and below.
We hope to be an active and fully committed part of the Radical London network of local anarchist and libertarian community groups in the near future.
To find out more about us and how to get involved contact:
Oct 27 2009 11:34
#2
I loved your leaflet ASWC "people"...
The Anarchist Syndicalist Worker's Collective for Liberation and Solidarity!
It covered all the bases and checked all the other groups.
On the bright side L&S is no longer the smallest national grouping.
Actually I don't think it matters when all the existing groups are so small, and divided by relatively few issues, what difference does it make if some other class struggle anarchists group together to promote their particular vision? As long as they are working with others on points of agreement, you might as well ask why Solfed and Afed don't merge.
I suspect if the ASWC people joined Solfed tomorrow it would make no difference to either party's ability to intervene in the class struggle.
Oct 27 2009 11:52
#3
Ernest,
It seems about a year and a half ago you were asking about joining the IWW
Ernest Everhard wrote:
Fellow workers,I am new to Libcom. I am not a member of the IWW. I would however like to ask a question about the IWW and figured this would be the best place to do so.
I am under the impression that one cannot join if they have the power to hire and fire in the workplace. I work as a middle manager by virtue of qualifications and experience - I am a senior nurse [middle management} I take part in the recruitment of junior staff and technically have the'power' to dismiss staff. Am I excluded.
Also, I am under the impression that those who are self-employed are also ineligible. If this is correct does this not exclude many of those who work in the construction trade in the UK as well as those who work in the'arts' ie musicians, artists, actors etc.
Just wondered.
Yours Fraternally
Ernest
Does this new group have anything do with the outcome?
Oct 27 2009 14:29
#4
vanilla.ice.baby wrote:
I loved your leaflet ASWC "people"...The Anarchist Syndicalist Worker's Collective for Liberation and Solidarity!
It covered all the bases and checked all the other groups.
On the bright side L&S is no longer the smallest national grouping.
Actually I don't think it matters when all the existing groups are so small, and divided by relatively few issues, what difference does it make if some other class struggle anarchists group together to promote their particular vision? As long as they are working with others on points of agreement, you might as well ask why Solfed and Afed don't merge.
I suspect if the ASWC people joined Solfed tomorrow it would make no difference to either party's ability to intervene in the class struggle.
You are pro-organisation, right? Can you really not see how having access to the vastly greater resources and range of contacts offered by a national group like SolFed would benefit the ASWC people?
Oct 27 2009 14:48
#5
Farce wrote:
You are pro-organisation, right? Can you really not see how having access to the vastly greater resources and range of contacts offered by a national group like SolFed would benefit the ASWC person?
Oct 27 2009 16:30
#6
Actually there are two of them that I know of.
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You are pro-organisation, right? Can you really not see how having access to the vastly greater resources and range of contacts offered by a national group like SolFed would benefit the ASWC people?
Maybe, maybe not - it depends how much the ASWC has in common with Solfed, it might be that the benefits gained would be offset by the reduction in political independence. Also lets be honest if they are working alongside say Solfed on a particular project or campaign, Solfed are going to share resources with the wider grouping aren't they?
I am pro organisation, I'm also pro theoretical and tactical unity, although you need some flexibility, I think that it can make more sense to make a declaration of political independence, especially when joining an org of 30 people or 60 people is not going to make that much difference in the scheme of things. And if their joining suddenly upsets the internal equilibrium then it could cause problems for the host group.
What is the difference between you, and the AF or Solfed?
What you think is beneficial about having another small group, as opposed to having a bigger one?