Sunday 24 April 2011

INTRODUCTION TO ANARCHY - PAGE 8.

Here we go with page 8 of the Teapot Collective Introduction to Anarchy. Page 7 can be found HERE.
     This proved highly successful until the movement was crushed bt both the fascist insurgents and the democratic government.
      Anarchosyndicalism (from the French word for unions) has been a movement of worker's self-organisation in federations, which has especially flourished in Latin American countries where there is little altenative for a labour movement other than revolutionary struggle. In the early 1900's for example, anarcho-syndicalists in Argintina launched a series of spectacular strikes with the government declaring a state of emergency five times.

    Anarchist became notorious in the 19th century for 'propaganda by the deed' - sabatage, bombings and assassinations of prominent economic and political figures, for example the US president McKinley.
     A short history of Glasgow's anarchists and the Glasgow anarchist movement can be found HERE.    
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