Building the Syndicalist Unions | A.5.3 | An Anarchist FAQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqRDbi9LzrE

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"How can unions which accept their role within capitalism offer us any defence against it?"

--Organise! in An Introduction to Anarcho-Syndicalism (1996)
https://syndicalism.org/texts/489/an-introduction-to-anarcho-syndicalism

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Of course I’m defending the CNT-AIT in Spain, that should be obvious by now. Please stop asking.

https://redandblackanarchists.com.au/the-attacks-against-the-cnt-ait/

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If you're looking for something to read on a #Sunday, you can check out the iwa-ait Web Magazine if it interests you. It's packed with valuable information on the global anarcho-syndicalist struggle and worker solidarity from around the world!

⭐ https://iwa-ait.org/content-types/web-magazine ⭐

Have a wonderful Sunday afternoon! :anarchiststar: No gods, no masters!

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❤ Hmm... New addition to my book collection...! ❤

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:anarchoheart3: Me, pondering life one anarchist thought at a time! :anarchiststar:

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About to watch a movie on Syndicalists!

The documentary is an alternative emigration story about migration and utopias. The film focuses on a group of syndicalists in Rjukan in 1923 who emigrated with their families to Brazil to create a utopian community in the jungle.

The film is from 2025 and runs for 70 minutes. Afterwards, there will be a discussion with the director, Mirko Stopar, and Dane Lundberg from Memoar will serve as moderator.

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"One worker said, ‘I never heard of this thing called sabotage before Mr. Boyd spoke about it on the platform. I know once in a while when I want a half-day off and they won’t give it to me I slip the belt off the machine so it won’t run and I get my half-day. I don’t know whether you call that sabotage, but that’s what I do.’"

--Elizabeth Gurley Flynn in Sabotage (1913)
https://syndicalism.org/texts/484/sabotage-the-conscious-withdrawal-of-the-workers-industrial-efficiency

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"Political parties can never lead us to Workers' Control, for by building parties we are erecting barriers in the way to that end; we are building something which we must later destroy. On the other hand by organising industrially now we are creating an organisation which can take over control of industry and which is not to be later destroyed, but developed."

--Tom Brown in Trade Unionism or Syndicalism? (1942)
https://syndicalism.org/texts/464/trade-unionism-or-syndicalism

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Here is also a copy of his writings on libcom:

https://libcom.org/library/anarchism-and-anarcho-syndicalism-rudolf-rocker

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"The Syndicalist local federation, on the other hand, is largely a body of delegates from factories and other places of work in or about the town and is concerned with truly labour problems, rather than who shall wear the mayor’s brass chain next year or who shall be nominated as the town’s dog-catcher."

--Tom Brown in What’s Wrong with the Unions? A Syndicalist Answer (1955)
https://syndicalism.org/texts/486/whats-wrong-with-the-unions-a-syndicalist-answer

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If you’re new here, hi! 👋 I keep a few resource docs and profiles linked via my Linktree. Feel free to poke around!

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IWA-AIT Web Magazine: https://iwa-ait.org/content-types/web-magazine
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My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/p.marg

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I don’t worship Rudolf Rocker, I just find a lot of value in the ideas he laid out in "Anarcho‑Syndicalism: Theory and Practice" and "Nationalism and Culture."

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I believe in workers organizing themselves along syndicalist lines, coordinating in solidarity across workplaces and communities, and building real freedom through federated collective action.

If you think my commitment to anarcho-syndicalism stems from my autistic traits, that’s a mistake and worth reflecting on. My personal (special) interests include Linux, Thinkpads, nature, and minimalism, the ideology itself is a separate matter.

If my worldview doesn’t resonate with you, that’s totally fine. We can still be friends and chat about other topics. I just want to mention that I have personal contacts within https://nsf-iaa.org, and stand in solidarity with workers organizing themselves.

I love you and hope you have a beautiful day! :anarchoheart3:

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Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation 40th Anniversary

"In the late afternoon on the 27th of January in 1986, in the upstairs meeting room at (the original premises of) Jura Books in King St., Newtown, the Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation (ASF) was founded. Thus began the most significant, impactful and effective organisation in the history of anarchism in Australia."

https://asf-iwa.org.au/anarcho-syndicalist-federation-40th-anniversary/

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@agowa338 @SnoopJ That depends on

1. the speed and weight of the trolley;
2. the separation of the tracks;
3. the articulation of the bogies.

If it's running at the speed of, say, the new Ontario light rail line, no one will get hurt because it's running too slow to fall over and will just stop in a short distance. If it's a Shinkansen, you've got problems.

But the unionised workers on the ground know which it is and can act appropriately

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@luckychronic I do not think the question is too personal. It gets at a real fault line in anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist politics.

From an anarchist perspective, participation in bourgeois elections is not just a neutral tactic. It reflects a deeper acceptance of the state as a legitimate arena of struggle. Once political activity is framed around elections, representation, and parliamentary outcomes, the center of gravity shifts away from autonomous organizing and toward institutions designed to preserve hierarchy and class power.

Electoral participation consistently pulls time, energy, and legitimacy away from grassroots struggle. Instead of building power through workplace organization, direct action, mutual aid, and federated unions, movements are encouraged to channel their efforts into campaigns, messaging, and compromise. This is not accidental. Electoral systems are structured to absorb opposition and neutralize it.

An anarcho-syndicalist party participating in bourgeois elections would be deeply contradictory. Even with the best intentions, the logic of electoral politics pushes organizations toward moderation, vote-seeking, and strategic compromise. Over time, this transforms revolutionary movements into parliamentary actors whose role is to manage discontent rather than abolish the structures that produce it.

Anarcho-syndicalism historically rejects parliamentary politics precisely because it aims to replace the state and capitalism with worker-controlled, federated forms of organization. Running candidates reverses that relationship by treating the state as a vehicle for change instead of something to be dismantled through collective self-activity.

Would voting for such a party be collaboration? Well voting for an anarcho-syndicalist party in bourgeois elections would reasonably be seen as collaboration with the system which I inherently oppose, and this is not a moral judgment about individual voters, but a political assessment of what voting represents. It reinforces the idea that liberation comes through representation and legislation rather than through building counter-power from below.

Even when the rhetoric is radical, participation in elections legitimizes the state and its mechanisms. It signals that anarchism is willing to operate within the framework of bourgeois politics, which weakens its ability to pose a real challenge to hierarchy, capitalism, and state power.

And if anarchism and anarcho-syndicalism are serious about abolishing capitalism and the state like me, then their priority must remain on autonomous organization, workplace struggle, direct action, and the construction of alternative institutions. In my vire bourgeois elections do not build that power. At the very best they distract from it, and at worst they integrate revolutionary movements into the very system they claim to oppose.

In my view, participation in electoral politics is not a step toward liberation, but a step toward containment.

Many members of @nsf_iaa do not vote in elections, and many others abstain as a matter of principle. :anarchiststar:

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