Anarcho-Syndicalism

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By Rudolf Rocker
Preface by Noam Chomsky
Introduction by Nicolas Walter
Pluto Press

Rudolf Rocker’s classic survey of anarcho-syndicalism was written during the Spanish Civil War to explain to the wider reading public the ideology which inspired the social revolution in Spain. It remains unsurpassed as a general introduction to anarchist thought and an authoritative account of the early history of international anarchism by one of the movement’s leading figures.

The present edition is unique in giving a complete facsimile reproduction of the 1938 edition as well as the corrected transcript of the epilogue to the Indian edition of 1947. It has the addition of a new biographical introduction by Nicolas Walter, in which he quotes from previously unpublished manuscript sources.

“[Rocker’s vision] remains as inspiring as when it was written… and no less valid as a stimulus to our thinking and our constructive action.”—Noam Chomsky (from the Preface), co-author of Consequences of Capitalism