Wayne Thorpe

Wayne Thorpe - El Ferrol, Rio de Janeiro, Zimmerwald, and Beyond: Syndicalist Internationalism, 1914-1918

"International syndicalism is our holy family"(1). Thus declared Die Einigkeit, the journal of the German syndicalist trade unions, on 25 July 1914, on the eve of the outbreak of war in Europe. This declaration constituted not only an identification with syndicalist organizations elsewhere but a pledge to honour labour internationalism in the event of war.

The IWW & the Search for an International Policy: 1905-1935

An article exploring the different policies and practices of the IWW in the international field.

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),…

The Workers Themselves - Wayne Thorpe

The workers themselves - Wayne Thorpe

Wayne Thorpe analyzes the international policies and endeavors of the syndicalist movement before and after the First World War, relations among…

International Workers Association

Revolutionary syndicalist internationalism, 1913-1923: the origins of the International Working Men’s Association - Wayne Thorpe

A highly detailed 1979 PhD thesis about the origins of the anarcho-syndicalist…