Reviews: a primer on anarcho-syndicalism for all to read
Lou Rinaldi reviews Solidarity Federation's Fighting For Ourselves: anarcho-syndicalism and the class struggle.
Fighting For Ourselves: anarcho-syndicalism and the class struggle. London: Solidarity Federation and Freedom Press, 2012. Paperback, 124 pages, £6.
A history of socialist thought - G.D.H. Cole
Submitted by Steven. on Mar 4 2014 00:22
All of G.D.H. Cole's five part (in seven volumes) series chronicling the history of socialist thought from 1789-1939.
A history of socialist thought: volume IV, part II - communism and social democracy 1914-1931
The second part of the fourth volume in G.D.H. Cole's A History of Socialist Thought series, this one focusing primarily on Communism and Social Democracy, as well as other libertarian currents of Socialism (ex. anarcho-syndicalism) from 1914-1931.
Introduction: Ready for Revolution (from Ready for Revolution : The CNT Defense Committees in Barcelona, 1933-1938)
Submitted by Kate Sharpley on Jan 23 2014 10:25
The Kate Sharpley Library team discuss Guillamón's work on the CNT's Defence Committees in relation to what we know about the start of the Spanish Revolution and why it's important.
The photographic images of the Spanish revolution are implanted in our memories and too often taken for granted. Iconic figures like Durruti blinking at a notebook or standing smiling in a circle of comrades, Ascaso, rifle on his shoulder, enjoying a chat and a smoke in the bright Barcelona sun shortly before he is killed. Most of all, though, there are the crowds.
The Spanish civil war: revolution and counterrevolution - Burnett Bolloten
This monumental book offers a comprehensive history and analysis of Republican political life during the Spanish Civil War.
Completed by Burnett Bolloten just before his death in 1987, "The Spanish Civil War" is the culmination of fifty years of dedicated and painstaking research.
Time & casual work
Time operates on casual workers differently and further alienates them from other workers.
Quote:
Time is the room of human development. A man who has no free time to dispose of, whose whole lifetime, apart from the mere physical interruptions by sleep, meals and so forth, is absorbed by his labour for the capitalist, is less than beast of burden.
- Karl Marx, Wages, Price & Profit.
XXV Congress of the AIT-IWA
Submitted by rata on Dec 13 2013 16:04
From December 6-8, 2013, the XXV AIT-IWA Congress took place in Valencia, Spain. Around 150 people took part in the Congress, with delegates coming from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Great Britain, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Norway, Serbia, Poland, Russia and Slovakia.
From December 6-8, 2013, the XXV AIT-IWA Congress took place in Valencia, Spain. Around 150 people took part in the Congress, with delegates coming from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Great Britain, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Norway, Serbia, Poland, Russia and Slovakia. Observers also came from the FIJL – the Iberian Federation of Libertarian Youth.
The International Working Mens Association I.W.M.A: Its policy, it aims, its principles
An IWA-AIT position paper from 1933 addressing its principles, positions, and speaking to relations with the IWW.
This text was kindly scanned and donated by the Workers Solidarity Alliance New York Local's library for libcom. It was written by the IWA to the IWW in large part, as a discussion was taking place both within the IWW and more broadly about the possibility of affiliation.
General principles and means of struggle of the American Continental Association of Workers
This is an excerpt from the declarations of the American Continental Association of Workers IWA-AIT from 1929. It consists of the principles and tactics adopted by the constitutive organizations drawn from Latin America at that time, and is translated into English with an introduction by the translator, SN Nappalos.
Preface and Background by the translator
Interview with José Peirats – Josep Alemany
Submitted by Alias Recluse on Nov 4 2013 21:47
A complete transcript of a 1977 interview with José Peirats, in which the Spanish historian and former militant of the CNT and FAI reminisces about his youth and discusses many of the controversies that plagued the CNT before as well as during the civil war, including the impact of the Russian Revolution, Angel Pestaña’s mission to Russia in 1920, the Asturian insurrection of October 1934, the CNT’s policy of collaboration with the government during the war, and the role of the Stalinists in the Republican coalition government’s counterrevolution against the anarchist revolutionary achievements of July 1936.
Interview with José Peirats – Josep Alemany
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