Can be read at https://libcom.org/library/fighting-ourselves-anarcho-syndicalism-class-struggle-solidarity-federation
In this chapter, we will analyse some of the changes to capitalism and society since World War II, the point at which anarcho-syndicalism was all but wiped out by fascism, Stalinism, total war and social partnership. We will see how the post-World War II social democratic settlement limited the space for a re-emergence of radical currents in the workers’ movement by integrating trade unions, as the representatives of workers, into the capitalist system. We will then look at the upsurge of class struggles from 1968 which marked the crisis of the social democratic settlement, and how their eventual defeat paved the way for the rise of neoliberalism and the “offshoring” of the traditional centres of militancy in the mines and factories. In analysing neoliberalism, we bring the analysis up to date with the conditions for organising today, characterised by casualised service sector employment and a withering of the institutions of political and economic representation – political parties and trade unions – which were central to the post-war settlement.
The Bolshevik Myth Chapter 36 - In the Far North
The Bolshevik Myth Chapter 35 - Returning to Petrograd
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
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