anarcho-syndicalism
Articles about anarcho-syndicalism, a form of revolutionary anarchism that uses syndicalist tactics.
Catalyst #20 Spring 2009 - Newsletter of the Solidarity Federation
Catalyst #20 Spring 2009 - Newsletter of the Solidarity Federation
Action against Subway | Maternity leave | Mitie cleaners | Post office sell off
Catalyst #19 February 2009 - Newsletter of the Solidarity Federation
Catalyst #19 February 2009 - Newsletter of the Solidarity Federation
Victory at Metronet | Redundancy rights | Deaths at work | Trouble at Amey
The Economics of Freedom - An Anarcho-syndicalist alternative to capitalism
This pamphlet has been written by a group of people in the Solidarity Federation. We are actively involved in taking direct action for a better world. However, we are also interested in what this better world might be like and how it might work. In the current world of US-led terror against terror, corporate cronyism and corruption, and widening global and class inequality, we all want and deserve better.
Out of the Frying Pan - a critical look at Works Councils
Works Councils, far from empowering people, act as a tool by which management can control and pacify people at work. The truth behind Works Councils is exposed here through the views of workers in France, who have witnessed their failure at first hand. The message is clear; there is nothing to be gained and much to lose from the introduction of a Works Council system in Britain.
Out of the Frying Pan is a critical analysis of Works Councils and a look ahead at a real future for organising and fighting back in your workplace.
Preface
Constructive anarchism: the debate on the Platform by G.P. Maximov
The development of anarcho-syndicalist ideas on working class organisation and the revolutionary struggle for the libertarian reconstruction of society, from the 1st International to the 1930's. A defence of anarcho-syndicalism against 'Platformism' and 'Synthetical' anarchism.
Constructive Anarchism - The Debate on the Platform
G. P. Maximoff
Introduction - Rebel Worker - Monty Miller Press
Constructive Anarchism. G. P. Maximoff
On the frontline: anarchists at work
Workplace Strategy of the Anarchist Federation
The following text is the official workplace strategy of the Anarchist Federation, adopted nationally in April 2009. Drawing on the experiences of AF members at the workplace, it aims to lay out the possibilities for anarchists in the here and now and open debate in the movement on workplace organisation.
Preface
Health and safety at work, an anarcho-syndicalist approach
This pamphlet is based on a course organised by North & East London Solidarity Federation called "Organising for Health and Safety" back in 1997. It was originally published in 2000. Some of the information regarding the law, may not be up to date, but it is still a good basic handbook for using Health & Safety as an organising tool.
Contents
- Introduction
- A collective approach
- Tackling health, safety & welfare
- Norwich Solidarity Centre
- Anarcho-syndicalism versus trade
unionism
Not a life story, just a leaf from it - Robert Lynn
A short account by a participant of the UK's largest working class anarchist movement (with the possible exception of the better known movement among London's East End Jews); in Glasgow during the first half of the 20th century.
Source; Workers City, ed. Farquhar McLay; Clydeside Press, Glasgow 1988.
The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of human behaviour: we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently... One day it will be realised that Socialism is not the invention of anything new but the discovery of something that was always present, of something that has grown.
Gustav Landauer
Strategy and struggle - anarcho-syndicalism in the 21st century
A pamphlet produced in January 2009 by Brighton Solidarity Federation as a clarification of the meaning of anarcho-syndicalism in the 21st century, and as a contribution to the debate over strategy and organisation.
PREFACE
Since this document was first circulated, it has provoked both discussion within the Solidarity Federation - where in its current form it represents a minority viewpoint - and also in the wider libertarian class struggle milieu, with reports of discussions from the Netherlands to Eastern Europe to the United States.
Towards a Fresh Revolution - Friends of Durruti
Highly influential pamphlet of anarcho-syndicalist CNT militants during the Spanish Civil War who opposed the co-option of their organisation in the Republican government.
