When we think of the goals of anarcho-syndicalism, we know that it is the establishment of control of the working class over the means of production, the establishment of libertarian communism and of course, the elimination of the capitalist class. The capitalist class is the one that has property rights over the means of production, …

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The Confederation of Revolutionary Anarcho-Syndicalists (CRAS) is a working class initiative that takes the position of the anarchist labor movement. Section of the International Workers’ Association (I.W.A.) in the Russian region. Source in Russian here. [Machine translation] No matter how hard the Russian ruling classes try to achieve “national unity” under the pretext of a …

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Pour lire cet article en français, cliquez ici. A theory, essentially localized in the USA and Anglo-Saxon countries, with terms such as “libertarian” (coming from French ‘libertaire’) or “anarcho” associated with the term “capitalist,” is spreading across the Internet. Such expropriation of the terms anarchist and libertarian by hierarchists may come as a surprise, given …

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Paperless, Práxedis* is a Mexican anarchist who has been working in Canada as a cherry picker in the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia. After a walk within the ‘’Solidarity with Palestine’’ demo in downtown Montreal, Práxedis and I ended up in a coffee shop where we spent the rest of the evening talking. He talked …

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Photo by Montreal Autonomous Tenants’ Union Overview In this short article, we will be exploring  •  The relationship between anarcho-syndicalism and tenants’ union organizing  • The necessity of a focus on one-on-one relationships if anarcho-syndicalist practices are to remain relevant  • The successes and activities of the Montreal Autonomous Tenants’ Union involving many active anarchists  …

Don’t Forget the Neighbourhood! Organizing Anarchist Tenants’ Unions Read More »

This is a period of more openly bare class warfare. From more engaged and aggressive labor action than we have seen in awhile on one side, to the growing mobilizations of fascists (and their intersections with anti-trans and misogynistic movements) on the other. From the blockades and land reclamations by Indigenous land defenders, to state …

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After almost ten years fighting for justice, Ansell workers in Sri Lanka who were sacked for attempting to organise their workplace have won the compensation they were seeking as justice. Here is yet another example of the power of international solidarity. In October 2013, eleven members of the IndustriALL affiliated Free Trade Zone and General …

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[Translator’s note: in the following article the International Workers Association is “IWA” but also “AIT”, which stands for Asociación Internacional de les Trabajadores in Spanish. Therefore in Spain, the IWA affiliate is called CNT-AIT ] Spanish anarcho-syndicalism has experienced a new rupture. The crisis had been brewing for a long time. It came to an …

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