Antología Libertaria III: Anarquismo y sindicalismo revolucionario [Libro en inglés]

El Grupo Cultural de Estudios Sociales de Melbourne (Australia) ha completado la tercera edición de su proyecto de Antología Libertaria con el titulo «Anarchism, Trade Unionism, Councils and Revolutionary Syndicalism» con el objetivo de continuar con la formació y difusión de las ideas anarquista en el entorno del movimiento libertario australiano.

Introduction

YunqueThis third issue of Libertarian Anthology is devoted to the topic of trade unionism and the evolvement by one of the groupings within it to revolutionary ideals; whom ever has taken the patience to study both the economic and political development of society over the past two centuries will come to realise that the goals of anarcho-syndicalism did not evolve from unachievable utopic concepts conveyed by a few lunatic innovative goodhearted individuals, instead, these goals are the outcome of constant struggles within the maladjusted social conditions. As a result we have the pleasure in presenting the reader with a collection of articles which we hope will demystify the misunder­standing of anarcho-syndicalism.

There has always existed at every cross point within any defined period in history the continuous dilemma for anarchists whether to belong to a trade organisation or not. This dilemma can be traced back to the perpetual conflict within the anarchist ideology between the individualist and the collectivist and therefore it must be recognised that anarcho-syndicalism is not an accepted method of action by all anarchists.

There are many anarchists that agree with Edouard Dolleans’ opinion that the ideal of anarcho-syndicalism evolved from two incompatible concepts: anarchism which is revolutionary and syndicalism which is reformist, subsequently many anarchists hold the belief such fusion will be as impossible as water and fire.

Nevertheless, wherever the human drive intervenes anything is possible. Even with the admission that many struggles have been lost, one cannot deny the historical revolutionary force anarcho-syndicalism has been in many countries and the revival it is currently experiencing.

The various trends of anarcho-sydicalisms, and we use this term because there has been different schools of anarcho-syndicalism both within Europe and America, have not always seen eye to eye and on many occasions there has existed severe disagreements amongst these revolutionary syndicalist organisa­tions of equal anarchist aspirations. During the 1920’s one could follow in the pages of “La Protesta” published in Buenos Aires (the journal of FORA -the Argentinean Regional Worker’s Federation- edited by López Arango and Diego Abad de Santillán), a continuous critique against all the European anarcho­syndicalist organisations, including the spanish CNT as well as the revolutionary syndicalist IWW of the United States, because in the eyes of the Buenos-Airens these organisations failed to implement the puritan anarchist ideology.

When dealing with the topic of industrial unionism, the old anarchist militants can be neither apologetic of the past nor of a unionism that, if it had certain puritan glimpses has irretrievably lost them in the course of the last 80 years not only in Spain but in the entire world…/…

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