1. Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism
   Resource Type: Book
   
2. The Anarchist Collectives
   Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-1939
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1974
   Examines the experiments in workers' self-management, both urban and rural, which took place in Spain during the revolution and Civil War.
3. Anarcho-syndicalism
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   
4. Book Review: Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt, Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   
5. Canada's 1960s 
   The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2008
   A history of social movements of the 1960s, including student and anti-war movements, the rise of women's liberation, labour struggles, and Quebec nationalism.
6. Critique of Syndicalist Methods
   Trade-Unionism to Anarcho-Syndicalism
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1975   Published: 1998
   Bonanno's 1975 meditation on the means to be used in pursuit of the anarchist project. Emphasizes the utility of unions in propagating capitalist control of industry and agriculture.
7. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1983
   
8. Failure of a Dream?
   Essays in the History of American Socialism
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1974
   Examines the reasons for the relative weakness of American socialism.
9. Frequently Asked Questions about Workers Solidarity Alliance
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2010
   
10. From Self-managed Solidarity Unionism to a Self-managed Society 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Capitalism is built on various forms of oppression and structural inequality. But the subordination and exploitation of the working class remains at the heart of the system. A liberatory program and strategy for a remake of society needs to explain how workers can escape the class cage.
11. The Ghost of Anarcho-Syndicalism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    The danger of modern anarchists of falling into the trap of anarcho-syndicalism.
12. Gramsci & Syndicalism
    Resource Type: Article
    In a polemic against the syndicalists, Antonio Gramsci argued that the syndicalists were wrong in maintaining that unions were capable of being organs of workers' revolution. He said this confused a marketing organization of labor within capitalism -- the trade unions -- with an organization for running production in a socialized economy -- the workers councils. Because the function of a union is to affect the terms and conditions of the sale of labor to the employers, he argued, it is an organization specific to a capitalist society.
13. Industrial Workers of the World
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    A revolutionary industrial union founded in 1905. Wobblies were mostly unskilled, low-status migrant workers. The IWW advocated the organization of all workers into one body and supported direct action as the only form of protest open to immigrant workers, who were excluded from the electoral process.
14. Industrial Workers of the World
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The IWW contends that all workers should be united as a class and that the wage system should be abolished. They may be best known for the Wobbly Shop model of workplace democracy, in which workers elect recallable delegates, and other norms of grassroots democracy (self-management) are implemented.
15. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
16. Live Working or Die Fighting 
    How the Working Class Went Global
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    Mason relates a series of struggles for worker and human rights over the past two hundred years and compares them to current struggles.
17. Marxism vs. Anarchism Part 5
    From 1848 to the Bolshevik Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    Seymour analyzes the syndicalist movements - which emphasized that the main obstacle to social revolution lay in the organizational weakness of the anarchist movement and the disorganization of the working class in general - that preceded World War I.
18. Marxism vs. Anarchism Part 6
    1914-1918: Imperialist War and the Realignment of the Left
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    The conclusion to a six part series, this article deals with how the formation of the Communist International, under the profound impact of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution, culminated the realignment of the left which had begun in August 1914.
19. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
20. Memories of [my] Syndicalism
    Against The Current vol. 155
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    A handful of friends, old and new, have asked me about the path that my ideas and activities have taken me, some 50 years after I happened across a civil rights picket line in my hometown of Champaign, Illinois in the summer of 1960. The following is a radical memory unusual in some ways, but with many similarities to the memories of my New Left contemporaries in the outcome.
21. Mussolini & Syndicalism
    Resource Type: Article
    Mussolini succeeded in persuading thousands of syndicalists including the main leaders of the syndicalist movement to support Italy's entry into the First World War. A majority of syndicalists, however, opposed the war.
22. New Forms of Worker Organization: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class-Struggle Unionism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2014
    A book that compiles workers struggles on a global basis, examining the formation and expansion of radical unions in the Global South and Global North.
23. Our Generation
    Volume 5 Number 1
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1967
    
24. Our Generation
    Volume 17 Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1986
    
25. Pannekoek and Gorter's Marxism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    Anton Pannekoek and Herman Gorter were leading spokespersons for 'council communism.' They argued for the primacy of workers' own organizations, defending their importance agains the parliamentarists and Bolsheviks who saw in the party the nub of working-class organization, and against the anarchists who saw anathema in all organization. This volume contains represenative texts by Pannekoek and Goter, with an introduction by the editor.
26. Platform
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1926
    
27. Plunderbund and Proletariat
    A History of the IWW in B.C.
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
    A history of working class struggle from the workers' perspective.
28. The Principles of Revoltuionary Unionism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1922
    Adopted at the Berlin Congress of Revolutionary Unionist organizations, 1922.
29. Review: International Socialist Review on "Contemporary Anarchism"
    Resource Type: Article
    The word "anarchism" is a rather vague word that covers such a wide variety of political views and approaches it is often hard to see how they have anything in common. This means it is also probably not very productive to produce "critiques" of anarchism that lump the many different viewpoints together.
30. Rocker, Rudolf
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    (1873-1958). Anarcho-syndicalist writer and activist.
31. Selections from the Prison Notebooks 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1951   Published: 1973
    Gramsci's Notebooks cover a wide range of subjects including history, culture, politics, and philosophy.
32. Serge, Viktor - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Victor Serge (1890-1947).
33. Social Anarchism, Individualist Anarchism, the State and Leninism
    A Reply to the International Socialist Organization
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    I take it that social or Left-anarchism and libertarian socialism are the same thing. Both stand opposed to Leninism, and both stand opposed to individualist anarchism.
34. The Socialist Register 1982
    Volume 19: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
    
35. Socialist Thought
    A Documentary History
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1964
    An anthology of important documents in the history of European socialist thought, from pre-revolutionary France to the 1950s.
36. The Statutes of Revolutionary Unionism (IWA)
    Resource Type: Article
    
37. Syndicalism
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    
38. We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    A history of the militant labour organization founded in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World.
39. Tom Wetzel's home page
    Resource Type: Website
    Articles on socialism, syndicalism, unions, and urban issues.
    
40. What is anarcho-syndicalism?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Libertarian syndicalism interprets liberty as self-management or control over one's life, and believes that freedom for the working class requires the elimination of working class subordination to capitalist or state bosses.
41. Working Class Experience 
    Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983   Published: 1992
    From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweeping interpretive study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800.

Experts on Sindicalismo in the Sources Directory

1. Marxists Internet Archive