Image The French strikes of May-June 1968 - Bruno Astarian A demystifying review essay and analysis summarizing the events of May-June 1968 in France with an almost exclusive focus on the strikes of the…
Image Monatte, Pierre - Laín Díez A short biographical sketch of the French revolutionary syndicalist organizer and author, Pierre Monatte, by the Chilean council communist, Laín…
Image The Charter of Amiens The Charter of Amiens was adopted by the Confédération Générale du Travail in 1906. It marked a watershed in the development of French anarcho…
Anti-Jewish trends in French revolutionary syndicalism Edmund Silberner on antisemitism among some key figures of the syndicalist movement in France.
Image Revolutionary unions and French labor: The rebels behind the cause; or, Why did revolutionary syndicalism fail? Rejecting the conclusions reached by author Peter Stearns that French revolutionary…
Image Syndicalism - Victor Griffuelhes In this essay published in 1908, Victor Griffuelhes discusses the basic principles of revolutionary syndicalism; advocates the tactic of struggle…
Image History of the bourses du travail - Fernand Pelloutier First published in France in 1901, this seminal classic of revolutionary syndicalism, now available…
Image Fernand Pelloutier and syndicalism - Max Nettlau A short intellectual biography of one of the founders of French revolutionary syndicalism, Fernand Pelloutier, written in 1932 by the “Herodotus…
Image Syndicalism - Hubert Lagardelle An introduction to the principles of revolutionary syndicalism written by one of its leading theoreticians--who was also a member of Jules Guesde…
Image Second thoughts on revolutionary syndicalism - Marcel van der Linden An academic article discussing what defines revolutionary syndicalism and the reasons for its…
Image Anarchosyndicalism in inter-war France: The vision of Pierre Besnard - Wayne Thorpe Historian Wayne Thorpe details the thinking of anarcho-syndicalist Pierre Besnard (1886–1947),…
Image Direct action - Emile Pouget Classic Emile Pouget essay on direct action in working class struggle. Published by the Fresnes-Antony Group of the French Anarchist Federation,…