Leaflet on the terrorist attacks in Paris, November 2015 - Mouvement Communiste/ Kolektivně proti kapitálu
This is the English translation of the leaflet that was written in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday 13 November 2015, in which 130 people died. The original French version is provided as a PDF.
The squatters of 1946 - Paul Burnham
Submitted by Steven. on Dec 5 2015 14:39
A short history of the mass squatting movement in the UK, primarily organised by soldiers returning from World War II.
A new age begins in Spain - Pierre Besnard
Preceding the French Syndicalist delegation composed of member of the C.G.T.S.R., and the C.G.T., I wen t to Puigcerda on Dcecmber 10, together with some comrades from the Local Federation of Barcelona and the Regional Confederation of Catalonia. The welcome organized by our friends in Puigcerda was most cordial.
The South African Wobblies: The Origins of Industrial Unions in South Africa - John Philips
Submitted by Ed on Nov 21 2015 22:13
John Philip’s pioneering, hard-to-get study of syndicalism in South Africa, stressing the influence of the IWW.
Syndicalism on the Shopfloor: the Denver Shop-Stewards Strike, Transvaal, November-December 1919 - EA Mantzaris
Submitted by Ed on Nov 20 2015 22:51
This paper by Evan Mantzaris provides a critical chronicle of a strike by radical white metalworkers at the Denver Engineering Works on the Witwatersrand, organised through a workers’ committee.
The Rise and Fall of the ICU: a Case of Self-Destruction? - Phil Bonner
Submitted by Ed on Nov 20 2015 21:59
This essay, which first appeared in the South African Labour Bulletin, sought to draw the lessons of the spectacular rise and fall of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of Africa (ICU) in South Africa, which in the 1920s was the biggest black protest movement in the country.
Anarchy #011: the world of Paul Goodman
Issue of Anarchy from January 1962 primarily about the ideas of Paul Goodman.
'Sifuna Zonke!’: Revolutionary Syndicalism, the Industrial Workers of Africa and the fight against racial capitalism, 1915-1921 - Bikisha Media Collective
Submitted by Ed on Nov 9 2015 23:02
Pamphlet from the Bikisha Media Collective on the development of revolutionary syndicalist organisations in South Africa, including the Industrial Workers of Africa.
Syndicalists in South Africa, 1908-17 - Baruch Hirson
Submitted by Ed on Nov 9 2015 22:21
Baruch Hirson, South African Trotskyist, provides some insight into the South African syndicalists of the early twentieth century recovering the history of South African left traditions ignored or caricatured in the South African Communist Party and academic accounts. Although his interest was in the Communist Party and the Trotskyists that emerged subsequently, his work also touched on the anarchist and syndicalist tradition, as this interesting paper shows.
One Big Union and horizontal worker cooperatives in Texas: a story
Submitted by Reddebrek on Nov 4 2015 13:39
A brief history of a labour dispute at a non-profit that resulted in the establishment of a co-operative that then spent years experimenting with horizontal leadership and self management.
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