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In this chapter we will introduce anarcho-syndicalism as a synthesis of the anarchist politics and syndicalist methods we encountered in the previous chapter. This will be explored through the theory of Émile Pouget, the Argentine FORA (Argentine Regional Workers’ Federation), the German FAUD (Free Workers’ Union of Germany) and the Spanish CNT (National Confederation of Labour). While the mainstream workers’ movement is separated into political (party) and economic (trade union) wings, anarcho-syndicalism's revolutionary unions are at the same time political and economic organisations. In countries where reformist trade unionism was not well established (such as Spain) this revolutionary current sometimes became the mainstream. Where trade unions were stronger (such as Germany), anarcho-syndicalism constituted a revolutionary alternative to the mainstream workers’ movement. This chapter will also show how this synthesis of anarchism and syndicalism has taken different forms in response to different conditions, but always rejected the division of the workers’ movement into economic and political wings, and rejected representation in favour of associations for direct action.
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Power Corrupts the Best - Mikhail Bakunin
Neither Lord nor Subject by Bao Jingyan
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Anarchy and Communism by Carlo Cafiero
On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
Against institutional cis-heterosexism by Sonia Muñoz Llort
Towards the Queerest Insurection by Mary Nardini Gang
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Murray Bookchin "Ecology and Revolutionary Thought" - Part 2: The Reconstructive Nature of Ecology
Murray Bookchin "Ecology and Revolutionary Thought" - Part 1: The Critical Nature of Ecology
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Mutual Aid - By Errico Malatesta
Revolutionary Bread by Emile Pouget
The Bully's Pulpit by David Graeber
Manifesto of Equals by Gracchus Babeuf
Post Scarcity Anarchism by Murray Bookchin
The Chain Factory by Osugi Sakae
"The Forbidden Word: Class" by Howard Zinn from the book A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
Fascists are the Tools of the State by Peter Gelderloos
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