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Syndicalism

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Political Philosophy

Summary

Syndicalism is a social movement which is based "in the class struggle" and which "seeks to establish the unity and solidarity of all manual and intellectual workers into economic organisations fighting for the abolition of both the wage system and the State." (Principles of Revolutionary Syndicalism Adopted December 1922 by the Berlin Congress of the International Workers' Association [Extracts]. In Anarcho-Syndicalist Review, http://www.syndicalist.org/mission/ downloaded 10-12-09)

Resources

Books

  • Industrial Workers of the World: Preamble and Constitution, Industrial Workers of the World, Chicago, 1908. Image PDF Details
  • Constitution of the Industrial Workers of the World Club of Australasia & New Zealand, The People Printery, Sydney, 1912. Image PDF Details
  • Workers' International Industrial Union: Constitution and Preamble, Workers' International Industrial Union, Sydney, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Anderson, Norman C., One Big Union For Australia, Will Andrade, Melbourne, 1922. Image PDF Details
  • Dawson, J.A., Trotskyism, Communists, the Labor Party and Socialism, Workers' Literature Bureau, Melbourne, n.d.. Image PDF Details
  • Judd, E, E., The Case for the O.B.U., Executive of the New South Wales O.B.U. Congress, Sydney, 1919. Image PDF Details
  • Kirkpatrick, George Ross, War and the working class, F.A. Holland, Fitzroy, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Purchase, Graham, Anarchism & Envrionmental Survival, See Sharp Press [this scan courtesy of Graham Purchase], Tucson, 1994, 85 pp. images PDF Details

Newsletters

  • Treason: for Revolutionary Anarchism, Issue no. 2, [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, May, 8 pp. images PDF Details
  • Treason, Issue no. 1, [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], March, 9 pp. images PDF Details
  • Treason: For Revolutionary Anarchism, Issue no. 3, [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1981. images PDF Details
  • Rebel Worker, vol. 18, Anarcho-Syndicalist Network, Sydney, Feb-March 1999. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action, Bulletin of the Australian Regional Organising Committee of the Industrial Workers of the World., Industrial Workers of the World - Australian ROC, Albany, Summer 2009-10, 16 pp. PDF Details
  • Treason, [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], n.d., 26 pp. images PDF Details

Newspapers

  • Rebel Worker, vol. 1, no. 5, October 1982. Image PDF Details
  • Rebel Worker, vol. 7, no. 10, December 1988. Image PDF Details
  • 'Rising Free', A paper of libertarian struggle, no. 3, [This scan courtesy of Viola Wilkins], Sydney, May, 8 pp. images pdf Details
  • 'Rising Free', A paper of libertarian struggle, no. 2, [This scan courtesy of Viola Wilkins], Sydney, April, 8 pp. images PDF Details
  • All Scrap, Anarcho-syndicalist metal workers' publication, no. 1, Dec 1995 - Jan 1996, 9 pp. images PDF Details
  • All Scrap, no. 3, June-July 1996, 9 pp. images PDF Details
  • All Scrap, Anarcho-syndicalist metal workers' publication, no. 5, April-May, 1997, 9 pp. images PDF Details
  • Sparks: The Rank-and-File Transport Workers' Paper, no. 92, Mar-April, 2000, 11 pp. images PDF Details
  • 'Direct Action', Publication of the Industrial Workers of the World - Australian ROC, Industrial Workers of the World - Australian ROC, Melbourne, Autumn 2012, 16 pp. PDF Details

Newspaper Articles

  • 'Reactionary Politics in Unions', Southern Advocate for Workers' Councils and International Digest, no. 87, J.A.Dawson, Melbourne, August-September 1947. Image PDF Details
  • 'The need for the IWW', Southern Advocate for Workers' Councils and International Digest, 1947?. Image PDF Details
  • CAM, 'Holiday in Narrungar', Burning Issue, no. 7, November 1993. Image PDF Details

Pamphlets

  • Industrial Union Propaganda League, Tom Glynn, Industrial Union Propaganda League, 1921. Image PDF Details
  • Anarcho Syndaclism in Practice: Melbourne Tram Dispute and Lockout January - February 1990, Jura Books, Syndey, 1997. Image PDF Details
  • Catholics Speak on Spain, Victorian Council of the World Movement Against War and Fascism, Melbourne, nd, 14 pp. images PDF Details
  • Boote, H. E., The Case of Grant. Fifteen Years for Fifteen Words, Social Democratic League [this scan courtesy of the University of Melbourne Library], Sydney, 1917, 32 pp. PDF Details
  • Brown, Tom; General Defence Committee, Why Strikes Fail, General Defence Committee [This Scan Courtesy of Viola Wilkins], Sydney, 1980, 11 pp. images PDF Details
  • Howie, J., Reds in Congress: First Congress of the Red International of Labour Unions; Moscow, July 3rd, 1921, With preface by E.R. Voigt, Director and Secretary, Labor Research and Information Bureau, Trades Hall, Sydney., Industrial Print, Sydney, 1921, 33 pp. PDF Details
  • Purchase, Graham, The New Anarchy, A talk given by G. Purchase in the Migrant Resource Centre, West End, Brisbane at a conference. Mayday, 1994., Black Swan [This scan courtesy of Graham Purchase], Sydney, 1994, 7 pp. images PDF Details

Sound recordings

  • Kerin, Dave; Kuhn, Gabriel., The Return of the One Big Union? Syndicalism and the IWW in Australia and Sweden., Interview with Dave Kerin and Gabriel Kuhn; 46.43 minutes., Reason in Revolt: Source Documents in Australian Radicalism, Melbourne, 27 November 2009. MP3 Details

See also

  • Sinclaire, F, 'Guild socialism', Fellowship: a monthly magazine of undogmatic religion and social and literary criticism (Melbourne), vol. 2, no. 2, September 1915. Image PDF Details

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