Counter-power

by Michael Schmidt - ZACF Mon May 14, 2007 18:29

CONTENTS (NB: some slight restructuring may occur, but this will give readers a guide to what to expect).

BLACK FLAME: THE REVOLUTONARY CLASS POLITICS OF ANARCHISM AND SYNDICALISM (COUNTER-POWER VOLUME 1)

Preface: Stuart Christie

Acknowledgements

Part 1: Introduction

Chapter 1: Beyond Capitalism: Introducing Anarchism
(two traditions of socialism; this book)
Part 2: Theory and Analysis

Chapter 2: Socialism From Below: Defining Anarchism
(three flawed approaches to understanding anarchism; Mikhail Bakunin and Piotr Kropotkin; the birth of anarchism in the 1860s; anarchism as libertarian socialism; against hierarchy; against capitalism and imperialism; against the state; the rejection of “state socialism”; elements of the social revolution; anarchism redefined and reclassified)

Chapter 3: Proudhon, Marxist Economics and Anarchism
(Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s legacy; Karl Marx’s impact on the anarchists; Marxist economics and “anarchist communism”)

Chapter 4: History, Society and Class Analysis: Anarchism versus Marxism
(Marxists, the peasantry and “progressive states”; the anarchist response; was Marxism a “proletarian science”?; determinism and social change; the class character of 20th Century Marxist regimes; class culture and class consciousness; towards an anarchist social analysis)

Part 3: Tactics and Strategy

Chapter 5: Roads To Revolution: Insurrectionist versus Mass Anarchism
(the insurrectionist tradition; syndicalism: trade unions and anarchist revolution; direct action versus “political action”; the French CGT and the Charter of Amiens; revolutionary syndicalism and anarcho-syndicalism)

Chapter 6: Anarchism, Revolutionary Syndicalism, the IWW and Labour
(Georges Sorel, anarchism and the trade unions; two waves: anarcho-syndicalism and revolutionary syndicalism before the CGT; the “glorious period” and the myth of pre-war syndicalism; the IWW and revolutionary syndicalism: Daniel De Leon, James Connolly and “IWW Marxism”; syndicalism and the “broad anarchist tradition”)

Chapter 7: The Debates on the Trade Union Question
(Errico Malatesta and the rejection of crude syndicalism; crude syndicalism, daily union work and the need for ideology; reforms, unionofficials and social revolution; syndicalism and the state: three common misunderstandings; syndicalists and the defence of the revolution)

Chapter 8: The Militant Minority: the Question of Anarchist Political Organisation
(insurrectionist anarchists and “anti-organisationalists”; mass anarchism: the union as the party; trade unions and “boring-from-within”; boring-from-within, dual unionism and rank-and-file movements; mass anarchism: Bakunin, the Alliance and anarchist political organisation; the question of leadership)

Chapter 9: Controversy and Legacy: The Organisational Platform Of The Anarchist Communists
(enter Nestor Makhno and Piotr Arshinov; the Organisational Platform of the Anarchist Communists; the debate on the Platform; the Platform: innovation or restatement of anarchist positions?; the Platform versus the “synthestist” position; from “creeping Bolshevism” to individualism: behind the Platform debate; the ghost of Max Stirner; “Platformism” after the Platform)

Part 4: Historical Themes

Chapter 10: Lost History: The Features of Anarchist and Syndicalist Mass Movements
(anarchism as mass movement; the myth of Spanish exceptionalism; anarchism as radical labour movement; anarchism, farm workers and peasant movements; the features of anarchist peasant movements; a false division: anarchist communism versus anarcho-syndicalism)

Chapter 11: Beyond Workerism and Economism: the Broad Anarchist Tradition and Social Transformation
(the state and politics; beyond the workplace; self-emancipation and the politics of everyday life; the anti-militarist tradition; revolutionary general strikes and peasant risings; the rise and fall and rise of anarchism)

Chapter 12: Anarchist Internationalism and the Divisions of Gender and Race
(identity politics and the “woman question”; women’s emancipation and class struggle; ideas, attitudes and social change; “reconstruction of the family”; other key anarchist women militants; race, empire and social Darwinism; overcoming labour segmentation)

Chapter 13: Anarchist Internationalism and the Question of Imperialism
(war, national liberation and cultural diversity; the re-invention of traditionl; imperialism, “transitional stages” and Maoism: central planning and “developmentalism; anarchists and syndicalists in anti-imperialist struggles)

Index

GLOBAL FIRE: 150 FIGHTING YEARS OF ANARCHISM AND SYNDICALISM (COUNTER-POWER VOLUME 2)

Preface: Stuart Christie

Acknowledgements

Part 5: Introduction

Part 6: Early Years

Chapter 14: Bakunin and the Birth of Anarchism in the First International
(the anarchists’ imagined pre-history from Lao Tzu to Josepth Dejacque; the modern world and the capitalist revolution; the socialist idea and the working class; the First International; enter Mikhail Bakunin; the Alliance and the anarchist movement; the beginning of the split)

Chapter 15: The First Flowering: Anarchists and the European Revolts of 1870-1874
(anarchists and urban revolts; from Lyons to the Paris Commune of 1871; to Bologna via Barcelona: the Cantonalist Revolt of 1873; Friedrich Engels and the Cantonalist Revolt; the schism with the Marxists)

Chapter 16: The Split in the First International and the Black International, 1872-1877
(after the Basel Conference; the Hague Conference of 1872; the Sergei Nechayev affair; the forces of the Marxists; the forces of the Alliance; anarchist victory: Saint-Imier and beyond; Piotr Kropotkin and the growth of the anarchist International; north versus south?; unions, peasants and the future)

Chapter 17: From Syndicalism to Insurrectionism and Back Again, 1881-1895
(the International after 1872; the general strike and anarchist communism; votes, purism and the end of the anarchist International; the “Black International” and the era of the assassins; against the current: Spain, Cuba and the United States; Haymarket: the anarchist origins of May Day; back to syndicalism; later anarchist internationals)

Part 7: Glory and Tragedy

Chapter 18: Anarchist Mass Organisation 1860s-1930s: Northern Europe and North America
(Britain and Ireland: the IWB, IGTWU, James Connolly, Tom Mann and the refuge of Freedom; France and Belgium: the CGT, CSB, FCRA/UA, GCL, Jean Grave, Fernand Pelloutier, Ernest Tanrez and the syndicalist laboratory; Germany and Switzerland: the Jura Federation, AKP, AFD, LAB, Gustav Landauer, Fritz Kater, André Boesinger and the anti-militarist, anti-Nazi struggles of the FVDG/FAUD, MTWIU and the AAUE; the Netherlands: the LVC/LFVC, NSV, “Domela” Nieuwenhuis, Christiaan Cornelissen, Harm Kolthek and the forgotten syndicalist template of the NAS; Sweden, Norway and Denmark: the SAC, NSF, DFS, Martin Tranmǽl and stable syndicalism; the United States and Canada: the IWPA/CLU, IWW, FACNAC, Daniel de Leon, “Big Bill” Haywood, industrial unionism and desegregation)

Chapter 19: Anarchist Mass Organisation 1860s-1930s: Southern, Central and Eastern Europe
(Italy: Errico Malatesta, Armando Borghi, the UAI, the factory occupations and the Fascist menace; Spain and Portugal: the fiery roses of the CNT-FAI and CGT; pre-revolutionary Russia, the Ukraine and Georgia: the NURW, Cherny Peredyel, Afanasy Matiushenko and Varlaam Cherkezov among the narodniks and terrorists; Bulgaria and Romania: the LCB, FAKB, BONSF, FAY, Mikhail Guerdzhikov, Gueorgui Cheitanov, and platformism armed; Greece: the Democratic Popular League of Patras, “Kostas” Speras, the SEMS and the lessons of direct democracy; Poland and Lithuania: the ZZZ, FAGPL and the shadow of Russia; Czechoslovakia: the FÈAK, ZJH-O, Bohuslav Vrbenský and the seductions of nationalism; Hungary and Austria: the URW, URS, Sandor Czismadia, Ervin Szabó and Leo Rothziegel in the heart of the empire; Yugoslavia and the Balkans: Milos Krpan, Krsto Cicvaric, Paul Zorkine and the direktasi workers’ faction)

Chapter 20: Anarchist Mass Organisation 1860s-1930s: Brazil and the Southern Cone of South America
(Argentina: Pedro Gori, John Creaghe, Juana Rouco Buela, Severino di Giovanni and the southern citadel of the FORA, CORA and FACA; Chile: José Domingo Gomes Rojas, Juan Gandulfo, the revolts of the FORCh, IWW, CGT and FACH; Uruguay and Paraguay: the FFREU, FORU, FORPa, FAU and the challenge of welfare reforms; Brazil: Neno Vasca, Domingos Passos, Maria Lacerda de Moura and the FORB/COB and FORGS; national elites, “developmentalism” and anti-imperialism)

Chapter 21: Anarchist Mass Organisation 1860s-1930s: the Andes, Central America, and the Caribbean
(Bolivia and Peru: the FOL, FORPe and the indigenous question; Colombia and Equador: bitter battles at high altitude; Venezuela and Surinam: the UOV and SAF in the margins of Bolivarismo and colonialism; Mexico: the COM-Lucha, the Flores Magón brothers, Antonio Gomes y Soto and the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1922; Nicaragua and Central America: Augusto Sandino, the CAS, FOH and the “banana republics”; Puerto Rico: the FLT, Louisa Capetilla and the question of who gets to wear the pants; Cuba: Enrique Roig San Martin, the FTC, FGAC, and the CNOC against imperialism, bigotry and the dictatorial elite)

Chapter 22: Anarchist Mass Organisation 1860s-1930s: East Asia, South-East Asia, and Oceania
(Japan and Taiwan: Ōsugi Sakae, Kanno Sugako, Hatta Shuzo the Zenkoku Jiren and the struggle against gender oppression and Japanese imperialism; China: Liu Shifu, the Wuzhenfu Gongchan and multinational resistance; Korea and Manchuria: Shin Chae-ho, the KAF, KACF, KPAM and the Manchurian Revolution of 1929-1931; Vietnam: Phan Boi Chau, the Phuc Viet and the question of class consciousness; the Philippines, Malaysia and their environs: Isabelo de los Reyes, the UOD and the universal appeal of anarcho-syndicalism)

Chapter 23: Anarchist Mass Organisation 1860s-1930s: South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and the Antipodes
(Anatolia and the Middle East: Alexandre Atabekian, Daud Muja‘is and radicalism in the empire; Palestine: Joseph Trumpeldor and left-Zionism; Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia and North Africa: India and South Asia: Lala Har Dayal, the Ghadar Party and violent anti-imperialism; South Africa, Mozambique and Southern Africa: Andrew Dunbar, “Bill” Thibedi, Johnny Gomas, the IWAf, the ICU and the critique of White Labourism and craft unionism; Australia and New Zealand: Tom Glynn, the Red Feds, Wobblies, Maoris and labour solidarity)

Chapter 24: Eight Years That Shook The World: Anarchists, the Russian Revolution and Global Revolt 1916-1923
(from the “Second International” to social democracy; anarchism and the eight years that shook the world; the Russian anarchists and the Russian Revolution of 1917-1923; anarchists and the Bolshevik state; civil war, Bolshevik power and the Kronstad Uprising; anarchists and the origins of the “Stalinist” regime; Nestor Makhno and anarchist revolution in the Ukraine; a Siberian Makhnovschina?; red storm in the Ukraine and Siberia; the historical role and class character of the Bolshevik regime)

Chapter 25: A Blazing Star at Midnight: Anarchism, Dictatorship and the Spanish Revolution of 1936-1939
(anarchism and the rise of Bolshevism; the Comintern, Profintern and the IWA; Bolshevism and the fate of the Left; repression, fascism and anarchist decline; between “brown” and “red”; the conditions for survival, and the Spanish phoenix; anarchism and fascism in Spain; fascism or revolution; revolution in agriculture and industry; revolution and war on fascism; crisis in the anarchist ranks; counter-revolution and the anarchist split; “crushing fascism once and for all”; water and oil: anarchists and government)

Part 8: Survival and Revival

Chapter 26: The Second World War and After: Anarchist Partisans, Syndicalist Unions and Imperialism, 1940s-1950s
(the course of the Second World War; anarchism, anti-fascism and partisans; syndicalism after the war: Western Europe and Latin America; communists, anarchist partisans and the Red Army; from “de-Nazification” to the Cold War; anarchism and post-war decolonisation; anarchism, the French empire and decolonisation in Asia; the rise of the nation-state)

Chapter 27: In the Shadow of the Cold War: Eclipse and Rebirth 1950s-1970s
(the broad anarchist tradition in the era of “three worlds”; anarchism, the welfare state and the great boom; anarchism and the West’s dictatorships; anarchism and cracks in the East Bloc; Maoism, the Cuban Revolution and anarchism; the New Left, “counter-culture” amd the revolts of 1968-1969; Cuba, anarchist guerrilla forces and the limits of armed action)

Chapter 28: Neo-liberalism, Fascist/Soviet Collapse and Anarchist Reconstruction 1970s-2000s
(the collapse of Iberian fascism and the resurgence of anarchism; European anarchist alternatives to authoritarian “autonomism”; Turkey, the Middle East and the Iranian Revolution of 1978-1979; Japan, South Korea and White reaction in the Far East; Zapatismo, Magonismo and resistance in the Andes; self-management in the Southern Cone; African anarchism versus capitalist “liberation movements”; the end of the Soviet empire and the betrayals of state “communism”; the IWA and the independent revolutionary syndicalist unions; into a libertarian communist Millennium)

Part 9: Reflections and Challenges

Chapter 29: Counter-power: the Broad Anarchist Tradition in the new Millennium
(understanding anarchism; analysis and politics; rethinking history; who were and are the anarchists? revival in the neo-liberal era; learning from the past; the need for conscious activists; the need for political organisations; relating to the popular classes; conclusion: building counter-power)

Index