#syndicalist

[dailyanarchistposts]

Tactics

The power of worker strategy and tactics – as workers – derives from their special place within processes of re/production and distribution. The most powerful tactic on the whole is the strike – the refusal to do land and labor destroying work. The strike is the most potent direct action – stopping harm from happening and making it difficult or impossible for capital to continue them. It is not a moral appeal, request, or even demand – it is consequential action that achieves the intended aim directly, without the mediation involved in third party actions.

This depends of course on the level of rank-and-file organizing and capacity to stop scabs from being deployed or to block conservative union leadership from crafting deals with management. No tactic is deployed in a pure form and organizing is always itself an action. But even then, using scabs incurs a cost on capital.

Another key tactic is sabotage. The place of workers in acts of sabotage can be crucial when we talk about green actions, because sabotage can have harmful consequences to natural environments, particularly where heavy industry is involved. Workers have a close familiarity and understanding of industrial processes they are involved in and how they can be sabotaged effectively in ways that are not destructive of nature. They also know the most significant break points to shut things down.

Workers, because of their placement and positionality also have access to industrial processes that environmentalists and others do not have and may not be able to gain. This access cannot be overlooked.

I have had numerous conversations with workers, going back to my days as an autoworker, who carry out sabotage within industrial plants to block harmful processes from happening (plugging drains, stopping effluent, disabling machinery with toxic exhausts, etc.). Sometimes it can be as innocuous in appearance as putting a part on the assembly line slightly improperly and ruining most of a shift of production (as I may or may not have done).

Blockades. Logistical workers have long histories of organizing blockades in support of community movements and against destructive ecological or social conditions. Perhaps the most prominent example recently has been the blockading by dockworkers of Israeli state shipping lines.

Boycotts. Workers can effectively initiate boycotts of harmful products, working with community members to take harmful processes or products out of operation. Insider boycotts against harmful materials or against materials hat are sourced from ecologically or socially destructive origins or from dubious sources (apartheid companies, etc.) offer unique promise.

[multidimensionalbulletinboard]

What I don’t think liberals understand (in fact, I know they don’t) is that Trump was/is extremely good for America, and that this is a bad thing. We should not want what is good for America, as what is good for America is bad for everyone else, including Americans. Liberals, though, will go further right than even Trump on issues such as the border just to prove they’re more pro-America than him.

[nando161mando]

📢 From Rojava to Xixón: Syndicalism is not a crime!

We, the Internationalist Commune of Rojava, condemn the attack on six members of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT). An attack that shows the Spanish state is widening its repression of unions in an attempt to weaken workers who fight for better conditions at work.

You can find out more about the case here: https://6delasuiza.info/#

➡️ Read our full statement here:

English:

https://internationalistcommune.com/from-rojava-to-xixon-syndicalism-is-not-a-crime/

Spanish:

https://internationalistcommune.com/de-rojava-a-xixon-el-sindicalismo-no-es-un-crimen/

[februarypatriarch]

[brokenglasshoestore]

im a syndicalist first

and a neoliberial second

[linootte]

An old man with new white hairs

[armed-syndicalist]

No American/capitalist propaganda made sure of that, which is why I say council republicanism when describing both state and anarchist communism to people more likely to listen, because second you say the C or S words they stop listening.

Welcome to "no, actually YOU'RE the communists!" 2024

[motordykefrommars]

Really want to find some good syndicalist and situationist writing, anyone got any recommendations?

[xoxiloaly]

Communist Prussia

Syndicalist Bavaria

Fascist Germany

New German Empire

German Civil War

After a Fascist assassinated the Kaiser and much of the parliament by exploding a bomb in the Reichstag the Empire descended into Chaos with Communist Rising in Konigsburg and a popular syndicalist state being founds in Munich whilst Fascist seized the Industrial rhine. In Africa Ostafrika, Sudwestafrika and Kamerun become German ruled Independent nations however Togoland wars seized by France. Luxembourg also become Independent and Poland was swayed to Communism.

[dailyanarchistposts]

The exploitation of labor and the exploitation of land under capitalism have always been integrally connected – one does not occur without the other. From the violence of enclosures of commons, expanded across the globe through colonialism – ongoing acts that are the bedrock of capitalist property relations. Through the dispossession, displacement, and social control of the enclosed upon, in the service of capitalist property and labor markets. Violent expropriation of land, and the means of the sustenance of life, are the very conditions for forced production for profit. Labor is rendered exploitable by destruction of its conditions of autonomous survival.

The connected character of the exploitation of land and labor is shown forcefully in the fact that the industries most directly destructive of nature are also those which have been most dangerous and deadly for workers and for Indigenous people. Logging, mining, fishing, farming.

Ending the exploitation of one is not possible without ending the exploitation of the other. And yes, this includes landback for Indigenous peoples. Ownership of the earth in the pursuit of profit is the condition driving the destruction of nature and the destruction of planetary (including of course human) life. People are rendered as labor for sale and purchase when nature, their means of survival is.

A fundamental position of green syndicalism is that those working class, those exploited by capital in re/production and distribution and forced to survive through the labor market are crucially placed to end the dual exploitation of land and labor. This is so for a few key reasons.

[mesetacadre]

[nando161mando]

Swedish Unions in Crisis – What Solutions Do Syndicalists Offer?

https://asf-iwa.org.au/

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index

https://www.akpress.org/

https://libcom.org/

https://www.cntait.org/

https://iwa-ait.org/

[branwinged]

every day someone here makes a post about a version of asoiaf in their head which is a lot more leftist than the series actually is. and that's fine because he's not writing a political pamphlet, he's writing a story which just sincerely investigates the realities of a lot of fantasy tropes while still using those tropes. the series is more about aristocratic conflict and how power can be exercised responsibly within that hierarchy and not the dismantling of said hierarchy. that would've been a very different type of story with very different pov characters. even dany's egalitarian streak is more out of noblesse oblige ("Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves"). the iron throne happens to be a symbol of stasis in a series building up towards change (a dream of spring) which is why it has to go, but once it's gone there's still going to be a king in his castle and his true knight.

[victusinveritas]

A bunch of comic book artists got together and made a Proj3ct 2025 summary comic, because 900 pages is a lot to read - 🔗 here

“LET'S START AT THE TOP. PAGE FIVE.

"PORNOGRAPHY, MANIFESTED TODAY IN THE OMNIPRESENT PROPAGATION OF TRANSGENDER IDEOLOGY."

ANY TRANS PERSON'S STORY WOULD BE LABELED AS PORNOGRAPHY. OUR LIVES. OUR EXPERIENCES. EVERY PART OF US.”

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

we have GOT to start calling people posers again i swear to fucking god!

[verypersonalscreencaps]

Top 5 First-Time Watches of July 2023 1. Oppenheimer (2023, dir. Christopher Nolan) 2. Persuasion (2007, dir. Adrian Shergold) 3. La Syndicaliste (2022, dir. Jean-Paul Salomé) 4. The Road Dance (2021, dir. Richie Adams) 5. When You Finish Saving The World (2022, dir. Jesse Eisenberg)