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Anarcho-syndicalists are engaged in a wide range of

workplace and community struggles, some very immediate

and others more long term. These include:

Workplace organising on issues from pay to workinghours to working practices and conditions.

Community organising from public services to housing

to the environment.

Strike and occupation solidarity staffing picket lines,

raising funds and bringing in supplies.

Worker support organising demonstrations, pickets and

direct action in support of individual victimised workers.

Networking with other militant workers for example

through the National Shop Stewards Network and the

Education Workers Network.

Organising public meetings on the economy, war,

climate change and other issues that affect the working

class.

Producing and distributing propaganda from regular

free-sheets and magazines to one-off leaflets, spreading

the ideas of solidarity, direct action and self-organisation.

Anarchism is a revolutionary political current that declares

"freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice and

socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality."

Syndicalism is the workers movement. Deriving from the

French word for Trade Unionism (Syndicalisme), it seeks to

unite workers on an economic basis to fight for theirinterests.

Anarcho-syndicalism is anarchism applied to the workers

movement. From small educational groups to mass

revolutionary unions, libertarian organisation grows and is

controlled from the bottom up.

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