Syndicalism Syndicalism is a type of proposed economic system, a form of socialism, considered a replacement for capitalism. It suggests that industries be organised into confederations or syndicates. It is "a system of economic organization in which industries are owned and managed by the workers."[1] Syndicalism is also used to refer to the tactic of bringing about this social arrangement, typically expounded by anarcho-syndicalism and De Leonism. Theory[edit] Basic outline of syndicalism as an economic system. Syndicalism is one of the three most common currents of socialist economics, together with market socialism and socialist planned economies. Syndicalists state that society ought to be organised bottom-up based on direct democracy, confederation, workplace democracy and decentralised socialism. Syndicalism and anarcho-syndicalism[edit] Related theories include anarchism, socialism, Marxism, Leninism, and communism. History[edit] See also[edit] [edit] Further reading[edit] External links[edit]
Rebel Worker - Wikipedia Rebel Worker is a bi-monthly anarcho-syndicalist magazine published in Sydney, Australia. Its first issue came out in February–March 1982[1] and it has been in continuous, regular publication since. It was originally issued as the journal of the Australian Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).[1] In April–May 1983 its publication was taken over by the Rebel Worker Group.[1] In January 1986 the Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation (Sydney Group) took over publication.[1] Since 1995 it has been published by the Anarcho-Syndicalist Network.[1] Its content comprises Australian and international news pertaining to anarcho-syndicalism and rank-and-file workers' struggles. Accusations have been made over the years that Rebel Worker is primarily the mouthpiece of its editor and is not accountable to the wider anarcho-syndicalist movement in Australia.[1] In December, 2013, Rebel Worker was forced to remove its operations from the Jura Books premises due to differences with the Jura collective.
Bourse du Travail The Paris Bourse du Travail, May 1st 1906. Poster announcing the 1893 Nantes Bourse du Travail founding. A women's convention at the Troyes Bourse, c. 1900 Sign in sheet at the Aubusson Bourse, c. 1920. The Bourse du Travail building, Paris, 2005. Role[edit] Labour[edit] Early Third Republic France was a time of dramatic social and economic change. The Republican government of Gambetta relied upon the support of working class voters, and so helped create the first Bourses du Travail under the control of newly legalised labour unions. With government support came government regulation. Role in revolutionary ideology[edit] The ideology behind the explosion in Bourses du Travail, popularized by revolutionary syndicalists like Fernand Pelloutier, intended to create in them the key organizational component of radical economic transformation. Cultural[edit] Bourses du Travail were centres of working class culture. History[edit] Birth in the Third Republic[edit] Today[edit] Ideology[edit] See also[edit]
Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed - Wikipedia Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed is a North American anarchist magazine. Publishing history[edit] The magazine was founded by members of the Columbia Anarchist League of Columbia, Missouri, and continued to be published there for nearly fifteen years, eventually under the sole editorial control of Jason McQuinn (who initially used the pseudonym "Lev Chernyi"). In 1995 and 1996 the magazine's production was moved to New York City to be published by members of the Autonomedia collective. Perspective and contributors[edit] Jarach and Zerzan in discussion at the journal's booth at the 2010 Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair The magazine offers a Post-left anarchy critique ("beyond the confines of ideology"), as articulated by such writers as Lawrence Jarach, John Zerzan, Bob Black, and Wolfi Landstreicher (formerly Feral Faun/Feral Ranter among other noms de plume). References[edit] External links[edit]
Syndication - Anarkismo Anarkismo.net offers two forms of syndication aimed at different needs: RSS Syndication RSS is a standardised XML format for distributing news content, used by many news sites around the world including most Indymedia sites. This form of syndication is intended for two types of user. The first being an end user who uses a desktop application such as Awasu, Feedreader or RDF Ticker, and the other being the many news aggregators who compile news from different sources into one news feed. To access the RSS newsfeed you should enter the following url into your RSS application: Should you wish to filter the newsfeed for specific categories or search terms you can use the URL generator to retrieve the specific RSS URL you require. JavaScript option has been reintroduced again as of April 2009 Javascript Syndication The second form of syndication we offer is via a dynamically generated javascript newsfeed. This page can be viewed inEnglishCatalàDeutsch
Gateavisa - Wikipedia Gateavisa (meaning Street News in English)[1] is a Norwegian newspaper-like magazine with roots in a liberal culture that rebelled against the authorities.[2] The headquarters is in Oslo.[3] It focuses on anarchism, the legalizing of drugs and gay rights. The first copy was out for sale in 1970.[4] The magazine was published on a monthly basis during the 1980s.[5] It now is published 2-4 times a year. References[edit] External links[edit]
Our Goals - Anarkismo The purpose of the site is to: Collect and distribute the news and analysis produced by anarchist organizations and individuals worldwide who are influenced by the tradition within anarchism known variously as "platformist", anarchist communist, libertarian communist, libertarian socialist, social anarchist or especifista, at different times and places. Facilitate fraternal debate and discussion between organizations and individuals of this tradition and promote greater unity between them on an international level. Provide a space where other anarchists, socialists and anybody else can learn about the activities and views of this anarchist tradition and engage in constructive dialogue with them; to provide a space for alternative, critical views and analyses of the world from a libertarian perspective. Why we think this is important: Capitalism is today, more than ever, organised as a global system.
Green Anarchist - Wikipedia The Green Anarchist, established in 1984 in the UK, was a magazine advocating green anarchism: an explicit fusion of libertarian socialist and ecological thinking. Early years[edit] Early issues featured a range of broadly anarchist and ecological ideas, bringing together groups and individuals as varied as Class War, veteran anarchist writer Colin Ward, anarcho-punk band Crass, as well as the Peace Convoy, anti-nuclear campaigners, animal rights activists and so on. Albon and Christo left Green Anarchist shortly afterwards, and the magazine saw a succession of editorial collectives, although Hunt remained in overall control. The Nineties[edit] The GANDALF trial[edit] Booth and Rogers' Green Anarchists[edit] In the late 1990s there was a further split amongst the GA collective, leading to the existence of two entirely separate magazines using the Green Anarchist title. See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Archived
Anarchism/Syndicalism as Vision, Strategy, Experience of Bottom-up Socialist Democracy - Anarkismo A Reply to Daryl Glaser Examining the theory and practice of ‘mass’ anarchism and syndicalism, this paper argues against Daryl Glaser’s views that workers’ council democracy fails basic democratic benchmarks and that, envisaged as a simple instrument of a revolution imagined in utopian ‘year zero’ terms, it will probably collapse or end in ‘Stalinist’ authoritarianism—Glaser also argues instead for parliaments, supplemented by participatory experiments. While agreeing with Glaser on the necessity of a ‘democratic minimum’ of pluralism, rights, and open-ended outcomes, I demonstrate, in contrast, that this ‘minimum’ is perfectly compatible with bottom-up council democracy and self- management, as envisaged in anarchist/syndicalist theory, and as implemented by anarchist revolutions in Manchuria, Spain and Ukraine. A PDF is here Politikon, 2013, Vol. 40, No. 2, 339 – 349 But are they a convincing indictment? And Russia ... Conclusion Notes:
Sam Dolgoff - Wikipedia Sam Dolgoff (1902–1990) was an anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist from Russia who grew up and lived and was active in the United States. Biography[edit] Dolgoff was born in the shtetl of Ostrovno in Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire (in present-day Beshankovichy Raion, Belarus), moving as a child to New York City in 1905 or 1906, where he lived in the Bronx and in Manhattan's Lower East Side where he died. Dogloff died of congestive heart failure at the age of 88 in 1990.[7] Selected bibliography[edit] See also[edit] Anarchism in the United States References[edit] Sources[edit] Avrich, Paul (2005). External links[edit] An obituary and short biography of Sam Dolgoff on libcom.org
De Leonism De Leonism, occasionally known as Marxism–De Leonism, is a libertarian marxist current developed by the American activist Daniel De Leon. De Leon was an early leader of the first United States socialist political party, the Socialist Labor Party of America (SLP). De Leon combined the rising theories of revolutionary syndicalism in his time with orthodox Marxism. According to De Leonist theory, militant industrial unions are the vehicle of class struggle. Industrial unions serving the interests of the proletariat (working class) will bring about the change needed to establish a socialist system. Tactics[edit] According to the De Leonist theory, workers would simultaneously form socialist industrial unions in the workplaces and a socialist political party which would organize in the political realm. Workers would also elect representatives to a central congress, called an All-Industrial Congress, which would effectively function as the national government. Political parties[edit]
Direct Action: Towards an understanding of a concept | Anarcho-Syndicalist Review by Harald Beyer-Arnesen, ASR #29 Campaigning for wage-workers to join the Industrial Workers of the World, Eugene V. Debs stated in December 1905: “The capitalist own the tools they do not use, and the workers use the tools they do not own.” To this one could add: At times direct action may mean putting the tools we do not own out of action, at times it may mean bringing them into play for our own, self-defined needs and ends. In the final instance, it can only mean acting as if all the tools were in fact our own. Direct action brought to its ultimate and logical end is the libertarian social revolution: the working class’s direct overtaking, rearrangement, transformation and deconstruction (when not found appropriate to human needs) of the means of production (the material tools of freedom), and the disarmament of the forces protecting the order that was. Many are those who talk about direct actions these days, fewer try to explore its meaning, asking what kind of tool it is.
Anarcho-syndicalism Anarcho-syndicalism (also referred to as revolutionary syndicalism[1]) is a theory of anarchism which views revolutionary industrial unionism or syndicalism as a method for workers in capitalist society to gain control of an economy and, with that control, influence broader society. Syndicalists consider their economic theories a strategy for facilitating worker self-activity and as an alternative co-operative economic system with democratic values and production centered on meeting human needs. The basic principles of anarcho-syndicalism are solidarity, direct action (action undertaken without the intervention of third parties such as politicians, bureaucrats and arbitrators) and direct democracy, or workers' self-management. The end goal of anarcho-syndicalism is to abolish the wage system, regarding it as wage slavery. Anarcho-syndicalist theory therefore generally focuses on the labor movement.[2] History Origins Revolutionary Syndicalism and the International Workers Association Film
Anarchist Black Cross - Wikipedia The Anarchist Black Cross (ABC, formerly the Anarchist Red Cross) is an anarchist support organization. The group is notable for its efforts at providing prisoners with political literature, but it also organizes material and legal support for class struggle prisoners worldwide. It commonly contrasts itself with Amnesty International, which is concerned mainly with prisoners of conscience and refuses to defend those accused of encouraging violence.[1] The ABC openly supports those who have committed illegal activity in furtherance of revolutionary aims that anarchists accept as legitimate.[2] History[edit] The traditional symbol of the Anarchist Black Cross. The Anarchist Black Cross began as the Anarchist Red Cross, a breakaway organization from the Political Red Cross organized to aid political prisoners in Czarist Russia. Black Army[edit] It was at this time that the organization's efforts were shifted from prisoner support to emergency medical response and self-defense. See also[edit]