In Defence of the CNT-AIT: Debunking Lies For over 10 years now, we have heard various things about the CNT-AIT which have turned out to be false. For today, we would like to concentrate on one interesting story and this is about how members of the…
Review: “Green Unionism Done Right”
Reposted from: Green Unionism Done Right By Steve Ongerth “A Brief Review of the “Roadmap to Contra Costa County Refinery Transition” “Recently a group of refinery workers’ unions and Bay Area environmental justice groups released an overview of a Roadmap to Contra Costa County Refinery Transition.…
Review: “Green Transition From Above or From Below?”
Green Transition From Above or From Below? By Tom Wetzel “A review of Jeremy Brecher’s Green New Deal From Below When I use the phrase green transition in this review, I’m referring to the shift of human society away from a reliance on the burning of…
New Years Solidarity Greetings to All
Friends & comrades: New Years Solidarity Greetings to all anarcho-syndicalist comrades, libertarian workers and libertarian socialists around the globe! Yours in the struggle for a New World! Yours in solidarity, Workers Solidarity Workers Solidarity Introductory comments: It is not enough, we think, to try…
3rd IWA Asia-Pacific
The 3rd IWA Asia-Pacific convergence took place with comrades from Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Thailand, Japan, South Korea and Australia in attendence, while more people online. The event is meant to share experiences and information and strengthen contacts in the region. https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=997697352400334&set=a.464396842397057 Statement from the attendees…
The birth of the International Workers Association (AIT-IWA)
Reposted as this pamphlet has some very interesting articles. “Contents: * From revolutionary syndicalism to anarchosyndicalism: The birth of the International Workers Association (IWA) in Berlin, 1922 * AIT-IWA’s founding congress twice interrupted by German police. * Emma Goldman, witness of the AIT-IWA founding Congress. *…
Internationalism a key aspect of anarcho-syndicalism
Internationalism is a key aspect of worker solidarity (anarcho-syndicalism) “The object of the workers organization consists in associating the waged for the fight against the exploiting class in accord with the slogan of the 1st international “the emancipation of the workers will be the work of…
“The crisis of power”
“The crisis of power” By Alexander Schapiro “Alexander Schapiro was an anarcho-syndicalist militant active in the international anarchist movement and the revolutionary anarcho-syndicalist movement in Russia during the Russian Revolution and civil war (Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, Volume One: From Anarchy to Anarchism,…
“The libertarian principle of workers’ control…..”
“The libertarian principle of workers’ control will not be invalidated by changes in the composition of the work force or in the nature of work itself. With or without automation, the economic structure of the new society must be based on self-administration by the people directly…
You can’t blow up a social relationship – the anarchist case against terrorism
You can’t blow up a social relationship – the anarchist case against terrorism A clear explanation of why anarchists oppose terrorism, and why terrorism or propaganda by deed can be of no benefit to the working class, as capitalism is a social relationship, not a group…