Beating Back the Bureaucrats: A Rank-and-File Struggle for Trade Union Democracy in Argentina and its Strategic Implication
Author: Jonathan Payn | File size: 360 KB
Download PDF
“Much time has been spent on the left discussing whether or not the existing unions can still be seen as capable of representing workers’ interests or whether they have been completely and irrevocably co-opted to manage and contain worker struggles on behalf of the bosses – be they private or public. Consequently, a lot of time has also been spent debating whether unions can be taken back by workers (and made to serve their interests), or whether they should be abandoned altogether in favour either of revolutionary or dual unions or so-called new forms of organisation such as workers’ committees, solidarity networks etc…”
Text from: Recomposition: Notes for a New Workerism
Don’t Vote, Organise!
Author: unknown | File size: 359 KB
Download PDF
“It seems amazing that after over 100 years of electioneering, the Left still thinks that standing for elections is a good thing. It is even more amazing that certain anarchist thinkers are arguing along similar lines. Recent developments within the left and the US anarchist scene make it worthwhile to present the anarchist case against standing for elections…”
This text was downloaded from the excellent and highly recommended Struggle.WebSite
Radical Agriculture
Author: Murray Bookchin | File size: 292 KB
Download PDF
An essay in which Murray Bookchin outlines his ideal system of food cultivation and criticizes the existing, capitalistic system. Appeared in Radical Agriculture (1972), ed. Richard Merrill.
Downloaded from LibCom
Anarchism and Violence
Author: Errico Malatesta | File size: 751 KB
Download PDF
“Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It is life based on the freedom of the individual, without the intervention of the gendarme. For this reason we are enemies of capitalism which depends on the protection of the gendarme to oblige workers to allow themselves to be exploited…”
AgitProp #13 – Libertarian Communism: An Introduction
When we speak of communism we are talking about two things. Firstly as a way of organising society based on the principle of ‘from each according to ability, to each according to need’, and secondly as the real movement towards such a society in the world right now….
LibCom
Download PDF
![[Poster] I demand the independence of woman by Emma Goldman](http://web.archive.org./web/20150808104047im_/https://zabalazabooks.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/poster-i-demand-the-independence-of-woman-emma-goldman.gif?w=705)
Socialism from Below: Defining Anarchism
Authors: Lucien van der Walt and Michael Schmidt | File size: 759 KB
Download PDF
This pamphlet is Chapter 2 of the book Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism (Counter-Power vol. 1) by Lucien van der Walt and Michael Schmidt. All references to other chapters throughout this text are references to that book.
