ANARCHO-SYNDICALISM
by Rudolf Rocker
Anarchism:
its Aims and Purposes
| Anarchism versus
economic monopoly and state power; Forerunners of modern Anarchism; William
Godwin and his work on Political Justice; P.J. Proudhon and his ideas of
political and economic decentralisation; Max Stirner's work, The Ego and
Its Own; M. Bakunin the Collectivist and founder of the Anarchist movement;
P. Kropotkin the exponent of Anarchist Communism and the philosophy of
Mutual Aid; Anarchism and revolution; Anarchism a synthesis of Socialism
and Liberalism; Anarchism versus economic materialism and Dictatorship;
Anarchism and the state; Anarchism a tendency of history; Freedom and culture. |
(45K)
The Proletariat
and the Beginning of the Modern Labour Movement
| The era of machine
production and modern Capitalism; The rise of the Proletariat; The first
labour unions and their struggle for existence; Luddism; Trade Unionism
pure and simple; Political radicalism and labour; The Chartist movement;
Socialism and the labour movement. |
(39K)
The Forerunners
of Syndicalism
| Robert Owen
and the English labour movement; The Grand National Consolidated Trade
Union; William Benbow and the idea of the General Strike; The period of
reaction; Evolution of the labour organisations in France; The International
Workingmen's Association; The new conception of trade unionism; The idea
of the labour councils; Labour councils versus dictatorships; Bakunin on
the economic organisation of the workers; The introduction of parliamentary
politics by Marx and Engels and the end of the International. |
(46K)
The
Objectives of Anarcho-Syndicalism
| Anarcho-Syndicalism
versus political socialism; Political parties and labour unions; Federalism
versus Centralism; Germany and Spain; The organisation of Anarcho-Syndicalism;
The impotence of political parties for social reconstruction; The CNT in
Spain: its aims and methods; Constructive work of the labour syndicates
and peasant collectives in Spain; Anarcho-Syndicalism and national politics;
Problems of our time. |
(50K)
The
Methods of Anarcho-Syndicalism
| Anarcho-Syndicalism
and political action; The Significance of political rights; Direct Action
versus Parliamentarism; The strike and its meaning for the workers; The
Sympathetic Strike; The General Strike; The Boycott; Sabotage by the workers;
Sabotage by capitalism; The social strike as a means of social protection;
Anti-militarism. |
(40K)
The Evolution
of Anarcho-Syndicalism
| Revolutionary
Syndicalism in France and its Influence on the labour movement in Europe;
The Industrial Workers of the World; Syndicalism after the First World
War; The Syndicalists and the Third International; The founding of the
new International Workingmen's Association; Anarcho-Syndicalism in Spain;
In Portugal; In Italy; In France; In Germany; In Sweden; In Holland; In
South America. |
(42K)
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