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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.
Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays Chapter 10 - The Tragedy of Womans Emancipation
Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays Chapter 9 - Woman Suffrage
Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays Chapter 8 - The Traffic in Women
Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays Chapter 7 - The Hypocrisy of Puritanism
Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays Chapter 6 - Francisco Ferrer and the Modern School
Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays Chapter 5 - Patriotism A Menace to Liberty
Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays Chapter 4 - Prisons A Social Crime and Failure
Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays Chapter 3 - The Psychology of Political Violence
Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays Chapter 2 - Minorities Versus Majorities
Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays Chapter 1 - Anarchism What it Really Stands For
Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman, Preface
Anarchism and the National Liberation Struggle by Alfredo M. Bonanno
Why I Left the left/Why I Left the PSL… or the DSA or Socialist Alternative or Whatever,
Let us go to the people by Errico Malatesta
Anarchy Part 09 by Errico Malatesta
Anarchy Part 08 by Errico Malatesta
Anarchy Part 07 by Errico Malatesta
Anarchy Part 06 by Errico Malatesta
Anarchy Part 05 by Errico Malatesta
Anarchy Part 04 by Errico Malatesta
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