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Revolutionary/Industrial Unionism; Anarcho-Syndicalism

Organisations

• http://www.anarchosyndicalism.net/
  Welcome to Anarcho-Syndicalism 101, your entry point to the global anarcho-syndicalist and revolutionary unionist movement. As its name suggests, this website is devoted to aiding and furthering an autonomous global movement of working class solidarity and direct action, based around the ideas and principles of anarcho-syndicalism.
• http://www.syndicalist.org/
  ASR is a forum for non-sectarian, critical, informed and constructive discussion of anarcho-syndicalist theory and practice. We are not affiliated with, sponsored by, or the mouth-piece of any organization. Our outlook is internationalist. We stand in solidarity with working people everywhere, and in particular with those who, rejecting both state capitalism and state socialism as proven threats to the health of people and planet alike, seek peace and justice for themselves and their fellow workers through international labor solidarity.
• http://www.iww.org/
  Welcome to the official website of the Industrial Workers of the World. Here you'll find just about all you'll need to join the IWW labor union and begin organizing your workplace to build the "One Big Union" in your community. The IWW, now in its 100th year, has a long and celebrated history...
  ...It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism. The army of production must be organized, not only for everyday struggle with capitalists, but also to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown. By organizing industrially we are forming the structure of the new society within the shell of the old.
• http://alternativelibertaire.org/index.php?
  A MANIFESTO FOR A LIBERTARIAN ALTERNATIVE.
  How to fight against capitalism today? How to conceive a new plan, at odds with authoritarian socialisms, as well as with centralizing, jacobine or socialism of state control, which led the labour and social movements into a dead end, be it leninism, stalinism or social-democracy ? How can this fight we call libertarian socialism or communism and whose prospect is a revolutionary rupture, the building of a communist society, in an authentic and auto-gestionary sense, how can it take a way adapted to new and complex data of nowadays society ?

Irish Context

• http://flag.blackened.net/infohub/organise/news.php
  Organise! marks the coming together of the Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation, Anarchist Federation, Anarchist Prisoner Support and a number of individuals to create a more effective and better resourced class struggle anarchist organisation across Ireland. Together we have created a new organisation, Organise!, with local groups and individual members across Ireland.
  ...Our attitude to those class struggle anarchists outside our organisation is comradely and co-operative, while we may have differences we seek to work to overcome these where possible and to build stronger links and more effect methods of working together as part of the process of building a broad libertarian movement in Ireland. We will not on the other hand shy away from debate and discussion of differences but attempt to deal with these in an open and comradely fashion.
• http://www.wsm.ie/
  Like most socialists we share a fundamental belief that capitalism is the problem. We believe that as a system it must be ended, that the wealth of society should be commonly owned and that its resources should be used to serve the needs of humanity as a whole and not those of a small greedy minority. But, just as importantly, we see this struggle against capitalism as also being a struggle for freedom. We believe that socialism and freedom must go together, that we cannot have one without the other. As Mikhail Bakunin, the Russian anarchist said, "Socialism without freedom is tyranny and brutality".
  Anarchism has always stood for individual freedom. But it also stands for democracy. We believe in democratising the workplace and in workers taking control of all industry. We believe that this is the only real alternative to capitalism with its on going reliance on hierarchy and oppression and its depletion of the world's resources.
• http://www.iww.org/en/node/900
  The Ideas of James Connolly - The Single Most Important Figure in the History of the Irish Left
  By Oisin Mac Giollamoir - WSM
  James Connolly is probably the single most important figure in the history of the Irish left. He was an organiser in the IWW in the USA but in Ireland is best known for his role in building the syndicalist phase of Irish union movement and for involving the armed defence body of that union, the Irish Citizens' Army in the 1916 nationalist insurrection. This left a legacy claimed at one time or another not only by all the Irish left parties but also by the nationalists of Fianna Fail and Sinn Fein.
• http://upstate-ny-iww.org/menus/connolly.htm
  The James Connolly Upstate New York Regional General Membership Branch
  of the INDUSTRIAL WORKERS of the WORLD
  James Connolly was born in 1868 to Irish immigrant parents in Edinburgh, Scotland. He died in 1916, executed by the British for leading the famous Easter Rising in Dublin. During his 48 years, he lived in Scotland (early years of his childhood), Ireland, and the U.S. (1903-1910). In all three countries, he devoted his life to fighting for the working class and all oppressed people.

Getting Organised, Taking Action

• http://debs.indstate.edu/d346p7_1911.pdf
  ---. Preamble of the Industrial Workers of the World:
  Address. New York City: National Executive Committee, Socialist Labor Party, <1911>. 48 pp. Pamphlet D346 .P7 1911p. PDF
• http://www.iww.org/culture/library/
  IWW Reading Room and Library
  An Annotated Bibliography of Books on the IWW - Compiled by Steve Kellerman, Revised June 2002.
  We have created this bibliography to provide you a reference guide for further information about the Industrial Workers of the World. Whenever possible, we have included online versions of the books cited here. Our bibliography is divided into the following categories: Books with General Information about the IWW. Autobiographical and Biographical books by and about IWW members. Miscellaneous Works with some bearing on the IWW. Miscellaneous Writings by IWW members and supporters.
• http://www.workerseducation.org/crutch/pamphlets/pamphletsdate.html
  I. W. W. Pamphlets & Other Literature
• http://www.workerseducation.org/crutch/
  Site designed and maintained by J. D. Crutchfield, I.U. 650.
  Jim Crutchfields IWW page
• http://www.iww.org/cic
  The IWW Committee on Industrial Classification
• http://www.census.gov/epcd/naics02/naico602.htm
  USCensus Bureau - Industrial Classification
  2002 NAICS Codes and Titles
• http://www.iww.org/culture/library/sabotage/
  Sabotage - The Conscious Withdrawal of the Workers' Industrial Efficiency,
  by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, October 1916.
  Sabotage is to this class struggle what the guerrilla warfare is to the battle. The strike is the open battle of the class struggle, sabotage is the guerrilla warfare, the day-by-day warfare between two opposing classes.
  ...Sabotage means primarily: the withdrawal of efficiency.
• http://www.spunk.org/library/writers/decleyre/sp001334.html
  DIRECT ACTION
  By Voltairine de Cleyre
  Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist...
  Every person who ever had a plan to do anything, and went and did it, or who laid his plan before others, and won their co-operation to do it with him, without going to external authorities to please do the thing for them, was a direct actionist. All co-operative experiments are essentially direct action.
  Every person who ever in his life had a difference with anyone to settle, and went straight to the other persons involved to settle it, either by a peaceable plan or otherwise, was a direct actionist.
• http://flag.blackened.net/infohub/organise/content.php?article.593
  Fire Your Boss -
  A WORKERS GUIDE TO DIRECT ACTION