CNT strike committee signs agreement on wages and conditions with the aerospace manufacturing company ~ from CNT Seville ~ The strike at GAZC Sevi…
Strike at GAZC Seville ends after 72 days
Tag: Syndicalism
Tino Brugos (1958–2025)
The internationalist militant and educator was also a pioneer of LGBT+ organising ~ Cristina Sykes ~ Tino Brugos, a committed trade unionist, educa…
Rallies for Suiza 6: “Syndicalism is not a crime!”
Activists sentenced to prison in Spain for campaign against workplace, equating public economic pressure with criminal coercion ~ Cristina Sykes ~ …
Radical Reprint: Image of an alternate past
A speculative work by two prominent French anarcho-syndicalists, Emile Pouget and Emile Pataud, Syndicalism and the Co-operative Commonwealth (How …
Syndicalism – a working-class conception of socialism
Taking a look into the archives of Freedom in November 1912 as a wave of militant, non-hierarchical trade unionism reached its high water mark.
Tom Mann and the industrial union movement
A legendary trade unionist and communist of his era, Mann (1856-1941) was by turns an inspirational and frustrating figure for the syndicalist and …
Kropotkin: Syndicalism and Anarchism
The following long read first appeared in Freedom’s July and August issues in 1912, as the Great Unrest was in full swing.
Germany: Seasonal workers force farm bosses to pay up
Creditors who had taken over the Spargel Ritter asparagus farm in Bornheim, Bonn, thought they could get away without paying what they owed to low-…
Language teachers win redundancy fight after two-month campaign
After the Delfin English School in London sacked all of its staff just before Christmas, subsequently declaring itself bankrupt, Tefl teachers with…
Diving into our early syndicalist histories
It is a standard cliché of Marxist attacks on anarchism to contrast “individualistic” anarchism with “collectivist” syndicalism.
Review: Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW
This book deals with the international scope of the IWW, how it spread to other countries, often through the idea of the One Big Union being carrie…
Aspects of syndicalism in Spain, Sweden and USA
Considering the relative weakness of anarcho-syndicalism in Britain historially, Philip Holgate compares three countries where the revolutionary un…
Interview with the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the CNT
On the occasion of the Founding Congress of the New International, a member of anarcho-syndicalist union CNT interviewed its foreign secretary Migu…
Amid TUC decline, Britain’s radical unions grow
The Trades Union Congress is facing a decline in membership that many within the organisation are recognising as a crisis.
France: Revolutionary syndicalists call week of debates to ‘kill the ostrich’
Activists with the Comités Syndicalistes Révolutionnaires (CSR) have announced a major new initiative to “kill the ostrich” of faili…
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Israeli academia “under command”
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