Can be read at https://libcom.org/library/fighting-ourselves-anarcho-syndicalism-class-struggle-solidarity-federation
This excellent book by Solfed aims to recover some of the lost history of the workers' movement, in order to set out a revolutionary strategy for the present conditions. In clear and accessible prose, the book sets out the anarcho-syndicalist criticisms of political parties and trade unions, engages with other radical traditions such as anarchism, syndicalism and dissident Marxisms, explains what anarcho-syndicalism was in the twentieth century, and how it's relevant - indeed, vital - for workers today.
This chapter will introduce three radical currents from the historical workers’ movement. First we will look at anarchism, the name given to the anti-state socialists in the European workers’ movement of the 19th and 20th centuries. Anarchism, as a political doctrine, opposed itself to all statist politics, whether parliamentary or ‘revolutionary’, instead placing its emphasis on human capacities for voluntary co-operation, mutual aid and working class direct action. Second, we will encounter syndicalism. Emerging in France, the syndicalist movement of rank and file controlled, radical unions spread to many countries taking new forms in different conditions. We will focus on the French CGT, the North American IWW and the syndicalist currents in the workers’ movement in Britain. In all cases, working class direct action was the watchword of the syndicalists who, often under anarchist influence, formed unions based on the shared economic interests of workers. Finally, we will look at council communism, a radical Marxist current which broke with orthodoxies such as the necessity of the Party and the capture of state power. The council communists drew some very similar conclusions to many anarchists and anarcho-syndicalists, but we will also explore some important differences
The Bolshevik Myth Chapter 34 - A Bolshevik Trial
The Bolshevik Myth Chapter 33 - Dark People
The Bolshevik Myth Chapter 32 - Odessa, Life and Vision
The Bolshevik Myth Chapter 31 - The Tcheka
The Bolshevik Myth Chapter 30 - In Various Walks
The Bolshevik Myth Chapter 29 - Kiev
The Bolshevik Myth Chapter 28 - Fastov the Pogromed
The Bolshevik Myth Chapter 27 - Further South
The Bolshevik Myth Chapter 26 - Prison and Concentration Camp
The Bolshevik Myth Chapter 25 - Nestor Makhno
The Bolshevik Myth Chapter 24 - Yossif the Emigrant
The Bolshevik Myth Chapter 23 - In Soviet Institutions
The Bolshevik Myth Chapter 22 - First Days in Kharkov
The Bolshevik Myth Chapter 21 - Enroute to the Ukraina
The Bolshevik Myth, Chapter 20 - Other People
The Bolshevik Myth, Chapter 19 - The Spirit of Fanaticism
The Bolshevik Myth, Chapter 18 - The British Labor Mission
The Bolshevik Myth, Chapter 17 - The First of May
The Bolshevik Myth, Chapter 16 - Rest Homes for Workers
The Bolshevik Myth, Chapter 15 - Back in Petrograd
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