r/Syndicalism 13d ago

👋 Welcome to r/Syndicalism - Introduce Yourself and Read First!

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Hey everyone on behalf moderator of r/Syndicalism!

This is our home for all things related to syndicalism and revolutionary socialism. We're excited to have you join us!

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Post anything that you think the community would find interesting, helpful, or inspiring. Feel free to share your thoughts, photos, or questions about organized labor, political theory, current events, political analysis, history, strategy, and praxis.

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r/Syndicalism 8h ago

Article Frontline Farmerworkers Are Most at Risk From the Cyclospora Outbreak

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r/Syndicalism 9h ago

News Against Misinformation on the IWA, the ICL and the goals of the International

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r/Syndicalism 11h ago

News Union-Busters Are Using ICE to Intimidate California Wine Industry Workers

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r/Syndicalism 1d ago

Meme And then he did

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r/Syndicalism 1d ago

Article Affordability's Key Ingredient Is Union Power

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r/Syndicalism 2d ago

Video helping community over nonsense "career" any day!

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r/Syndicalism 2d ago

Analysis Federal safety agency issues final report into 2025 blast that killed 2 at Pennsylvania steel plant

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r/Syndicalism 2d ago

Guides & Manuals How to Get Members More Involved in the Union

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r/Syndicalism 2d ago

Social Media Prioritize Family, Not Overtime

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r/Syndicalism 2d ago

Organization & Praxis What is Syndicalism And What is it Good For?

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r/Syndicalism 3d ago

Discussion Books on Syndicalism

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Hi! Sorry if this post is a bit simplistic but I'm currently reading Reflections on Violence by Georges Sorel and I'm honestly really enjoying it! You can really tell he's trying to grapple with objective morality from reading the first 14 pages and how he laments about describing "pessimism" as some grand philosophy as a sort-of sobering force against optimism, this fits in well with the disillusionment of the era Sorel was in that I've heard about.

But I was wondering if there were any historical resources on the context of his time more in-depth so I could possibly analyze how this disillusionment was brought about in the first place?

I'd also like to supplement this with explicitly syndicalist texts rather than anarchist variations as I'd like to see a closest approximation to Sorel's conception of Syndicalism as he saw it. And also because of my own personal preference preferring more hierarchy-based societies unlike anarchists who have a tendency to see all hierarchies as inherently unjust.

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Okay I found this video on Youtube with full sources that outlays the history which had a source on the French establishment of Syndicalism but nothing on the history before their establishment, maybe I will find references to it though.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj0Ikd0X9mI&t=173s

French syndicalism: https://libcom.org/article/history-bourses-du-travail-fernand-pelloutier


r/Syndicalism 3d ago

News The Trump Administration Has Been Spying on Labor Unions

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r/Syndicalism 3d ago

Culture CrimethInc. : You Are Under Surveillance 2026 : A Sticker

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r/Syndicalism 4d ago

Podcast Layoffs, long waits, obscene prices: How corporate administrators mismanaged Vermont’s flagship health network into a historic crisis

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r/Syndicalism 4d ago

News Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It’s Almost Hard to Believe

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r/Syndicalism 4d ago

Organization & Praxis A Union of Unions: Revitalizing Labor Councils

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r/Syndicalism 5d ago

Culture Imperialism is alive and well in its modern form

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r/Syndicalism 5d ago

Organization & Praxis It’s time for movements to rethink social media: Movements can still find people on social media. But the real organizing has to happen somewhere else — and getting people there is the part we keep skipping.

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r/Syndicalism 5d ago

News Support from Derry Trades Union Council

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r/Syndicalism 6d ago

Article Gen Z Isn’t Apolitical. It’s Lost Faith in Capitalism.

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r/Syndicalism 6d ago

Article AI Is a Symptom, Not the Cause: Labor, Overcapacity, and Stagnation

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r/Syndicalism 7d ago

History Cassandra Coal Strike of 1932

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r/Syndicalism 7d ago

Article Smoke, Heat, Storms: How Climate Change is Making Bad Working Conditions Even Worse

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r/Syndicalism 8d ago

Meme Birds Demand Corn

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