** Self Education
*** Objectives
*** Aims
*** Content
*** Format and support
*** Self-education: A revolutionary tool
* Block 1
** Unit 1: Introduction — The origins of Capitalism
*** This Unit aims to:
*** Terms and abbreviations
*** Introduction
*** The Feudal Economy
*** Rise of the Merchant Class
*** The emergence of Capitalism
*** Social impact of capitalism
*** The Rise of Manufacturing
*** The Industrial Revolution
*** Conclusions
*** Key points
*** Checklist
*** Answer suggestions
*** Some discussion points
*** Further Reading
** Unit 2: Britain — The radical period 1750s-1840s
*** This Unit aims to:
*** Terms and abbreviations
*** Introduction
*** Problems with classical history
*** Class Organisation
*** The Food Riots
*** Government Response
*** The Radical Period
*** Luddism
*** Analysis: Reform or Revolution?
*** Early General Unions
*** The Grand National
*** Chartism
*** Conclusions
*** Key points
*** Checklist
*** Answer suggestions
*** Some discussion points
*** Further Reading
** Unit 3: The First International
*** This Unit aims to:
*** Terms and abbreviations
*** Introduction
*** The First International
*** The Marxist position
*** Anarchist Collectivism
*** Anarchism & Individualism
*** Anarchist Society
*** Anarchist Organisation
*** Direct Action
*** First International: Death Throes
*** Conclusion
*** Key points
*** Checklist
*** Answer suggestions
*** Some discussion points
*** Further Reading
** Unit 4: France 1870–1918 — Early Revolutionary Unions
*** This Unit aims to:
*** Terms and abbreviations
*** The Paris Commune
*** Economic Conditions
*** Early Attempts at Unions
*** Anarchist unions get organised
*** Federation des Bourses du Travail
*** Direct Action
*** Marxists and Socialists
*** Formation of the CGT
*** The Charter of Amiens
*** The State Response
*** The First World War and after
*** Conclusion
*** Key points
*** Checklist
*** Answer suggestions
*** Some discussion points
** Unit 5: Revolutionary Syndicalism in Britain, 1870–1910
*** This Unit aims to:
*** Terms and abbreviations
*** Introduction
*** Background
*** Winds of Change
*** New Unionism
*** Capitalism & Socialism
*** Capitalism’s New Face
*** Economic Decline
*** Bureaucracy vs. Militancy
*** Syndicalism in Britain
*** Tom Mann
*** Conclusion
*** Key points
*** Checklist
*** Answer suggestions
*** Some discussion points
*** Further Reading
** Unit 6: Revolutionary Syndicalism in Britain and Ireland, 1910–1917
*** This Unit aims to:
*** Terms and abbreviations
*** Introduction
*** Tactics & Strategy I
*** Class Action
*** South Wales Miners
*** Transport Workers
*** Merseyside
*** Nationwide Rail Dispute
*** Nationwide Miners Dispute
*** Tactics and Strategy II
*** Engineering Workers
*** Building Workers
*** Irish Syndicalism
*** The First World War
*** Conclusion
*** Key points
*** Checklist
*** Answer suggestions
*** Some discussion points
*** Further Reading
* Block 2
** Unit 7: Mexico 1870–1920 — Colonialism and Revolution
*** This Unit aims to
*** Terms and abbreviations
*** Introduction
*** Mexican Anarchism
*** Diaz: The Selling of Mexico
*** Working Class Conditions
*** Anarchist Opposition: the PLM
*** The 1910 Revolution
*** Madero Sells Out
*** Zapata & Agrarianism
*** Anarcho-Syndicalism in Mexico City
*** US Takes Control
*** Postscript
*** Key points
*** Checklist
*** Answer suggestions
*** Some discussion points
*** Further Reading
** Unit 8: USA 1886–1930 — The Wobblies
*** This Unit aims to
*** Terms and abbreviations
*** Introduction
*** US Anarcho-syndicalism
*** January Manifesto: IWW
*** Political Parties & the IWW
*** Culture: West and East
*** Free Speech
*** Industrial Direct Action
*** Centralisation
*** Rural Organisation
*** State Repression
*** Communist Takeover
*** Postscript
*** Key points
*** Checklist
*** Answer suggestions
*** Discussion points
*** Further Reading
** Unit 9: Anarcho-syndicalism in Argentina 1870–1939
*** This Unit aims to
*** Terms and abbreviations
*** Introduction
*** International Labour
*** Organising Resistance
*** FOA
*** FORA
*** Rent Strikes
*** State Responses
*** CORA and Split
*** Class War and Backlash
*** Drift to Marxism
*** 1920s: Internationalism
*** Military Coup
*** Communist Party
*** Postscript
*** Key points
*** Answer suggestions
*** Discussion points
*** Further Reading
** Unit 10: Sweden — 1889–1939
*** This Unit aims to
*** Terms and abbreviations
*** Introduction
*** Under Pressure
*** Questions of Tactics
*** The SAC
*** Direct Action
*** First World War and After
*** Questions of Tactics II
*** General Strike
*** 1920s: Structures & LO
*** Conclusion
*** Key points
*** Checklist
*** Answer suggestions
*** Suggested discussion points
*** Further Reading
** Unit 11: Russia I — 1850–1917
*** This Unit aims to
*** Terms and abbreviations
*** Introduction
*** Narrodniks, socialists & anarchists
*** Beginnings of Marxist-Leninism
*** 1905: Revolution
*** Anarchist Organisations
*** Marxists & Soviets
*** Marxist-Leninism after 1905
*** The Social Revolutionaries
*** 1905–16
*** 1917 Revolution: February
*** Soviets and Factory Committees
*** Lenin: April Thesis
*** 1917 Revolution: October
*** Bolsheviks Triumph
*** Key points
*** Checklist
*** Answer suggestions
*** Discussion points
*** Further Reading
** Unit 12: Russia II — 1917–1930
*** This Unit aims to
*** Terms and abbreviations
*** Introduction
*** After October
*** The Constituent Assembly
*** The Soviet System
*** Bolshevik Repression
*** Capitalist Coexistence
*** Red Terror
*** Land Deals
*** Workers Control Crushed
*** Totalitarianism
*** Land Grabs
*** Revolt and Civil War
*** Kronstadt Massacre
*** After Kronstadt
*** Conclusion
*** Key points
*** Checklist
*** Answer suggestions
*** Discussion points
*** Further Reading
* Block 3
** Unit 13: Going Global — International Organisation, 1872–1922
*** This Unit aims to
*** Terms and abbreviations
*** Introduction
*** Anarchist International
*** Second International
*** Syndicalists regroup
*** 1913 Conference
*** The First World War
*** Rise of Bolshevism
*** Third International
*** Rise of anarcho-syndicalism
*** Demise of the CI
*** Founding of the IWA
*** Postscript
*** Key points
*** Checklist
*** Answer suggestions
*** Suggested discussion points
*** Appendix
*** Further Reading
** Unit 14: Anarcho-syndicalism in Britain, 1914–30
*** This Unit aims to
*** Terms and abbreviations
*** Introduction
*** The war economy
*** The Munitions Act
*** The seeds of revolt
*** The Syndicalist Influence
*** Turning up the heat
*** Syndicalism in Sheffield
*** Works Committee Movement
*** After the War
*** The 1920s: Decline
*** 1926 General Strike
*** Postscript
*** Key points
*** Checklist
*** Answer suggestions
**** Suggested discussion points
*** Further Reading
** Unit 15: Spain, 1868–1936 — Build-up to revolution
*** This Unit aims to
*** Terms and abbreviations
*** Introduction
*** The first organisations
*** The Early 20th Century
*** The Social Dimension
*** Education
*** The CNT
*** The 2nd Republic, 1931–36
*** 1936: CNT comes of age
*** Postscript: Why Spain?
*** Key points
*** Checklist
*** Answer suggestions
*** Suggested discussion points
*** Further Reading
** Unit 16: Spain — Culture, education, women and sexuality
*** This Unit aims to
*** Terms and abbreviations
*** Introduction
*** Women, liberation, and early anarcho-syndicalism
*** The early 20th Century
*** 1930s; cultural revolution
*** Sex, love and relationships
*** Mujeres Libres
*** 1936 Revolution
*** Conclusion
*** Key points
*** Checklist
*** Answer suggestions
*** Suggested discussion points
*** Further Reading
** Unit 17: Spain 1936–39 — Revolution and civil war
*** This Unit aims to
*** Terms and abbreviations
*** Introduction
*** The 1936 Revolution
*** Compromise & consolidation
*** Anarcho-syndicalist action
*** Aragon and Zaragoza
*** CNT enters the government
*** Workers Militias
*** Rise of the Communist Party
**** May Days
*** Invasion of Aragon
*** Decline, fascism & genocide
*** Conclusion
*** Postscript: Academics and Spain
*** Key points
*** Checklist
*** Answer suggestions
*** Suggested discussion points
*** Further Reading
** Unit 18: Spain — The Collectives
*** This Unit aims to
*** Terms and abbreviations
*** Introduction
*** Spain in 1936
*** Collective mechanisms
*** Arming to Fight Fascism
*** Health
*** The Wider Economy
*** The Agricultural Collectives
*** The Levant Federation
*** Life in Aragon
*** Money
*** Conclusion
*** Key points
*** Checklist
*** Answer suggestions
*** Suggested discussion points
*** Further Reading
* Block 4
** Unit 19: Britain, 1930–1950 — The era of reformism
*** This Unit aims to
*** Terms and abbreviations
*** Introduction
*** Money problems
*** Social Capitalism?
*** Leaders turn to reformism
*** In from the cold
*** The Communists sell out
*** New improved capitalism?
*** Stalinist influences
*** New Labour, old fixations
*** Post-war unionism
*** Nationalised Failures
*** SWF
*** Postscript
*** Key points
*** Checklist
*** Answer suggestions
*** Suggested discussion points
*** Further Reading
** Unit 20: Britain, 1950–1990 — Decline of social democracy
*** This Unit aims to
*** Terms and abbreviations
*** Introduction
*** Desperate Measures
*** Labour from crisis to carnage
*** Reformism vs. militancy
*** Shop stewards movement
*** Why shop stewards failed
*** The Communist Party
*** Failure of reformism
*** Failure of social democracy
*** Thatcherism
*** Left wing resistance
*** Anarcho-syndicalists?
*** Postscript
*** Key points
*** Checklist
*** Answer suggestions
*** Suggested discussion points
*** Further Reading
** Unit 21: Global anarcho-syndicalism 1939–99
*** This Unit aims to
*** Terms and abbreviations
*** Introduction
*** The IWA 1939–45
*** After the war
*** The lure of reformism
*** IWA gets focused
*** The CNT under attack
*** A principled defence
*** The war of attrition
*** Postscript
*** Key points
*** Checklist
*** Answer suggestions
*** Suggested discussion points
*** Further Reading
** Unit 22: Roots of modern anarcho-syndicalism — freedom, oppression, rebellion
*** This Unit aims to
*** Terms and abbreviations
*** Introduction
*** The essence of freedom
*** Oppression defined
*** Origins of rebellion
*** Aiming high
*** States & social contracts
*** Anarcho-syndicalism
*** Why Marxism failed
*** Aims, means, principles
*** Postscript
*** Key points
*** Checklist
*** Answer suggestions
*** Suggested discussion points
*** Further Reading
** Unit 23: Roots of modern anarcho-syndicalism — morality, culture, tactics
*** This Unit aims to
*** Introduction
*** Managing things, not people
*** Syndicalism
*** Morality, culture, tactics
*** Work, creativity, leisure
*** Social economic politics
*** Planned spontaneity
*** Collective solutions
*** A real living alternative
*** Dark ages
*** Postscript
*** Key points
*** Checklist
*** Answer suggestions
*** Suggested discussion points
*** Further Reading
** Unit 24: The spirit of anarcho-syndicalism
*** This Unit aims to
*** Introduction
*** Life today and changing it
*** Alternatives
*** 21st Century anarcho-syndicalism
*** Revolution
*** State culture
*** Organisation
*** Self-education
*** Beyond work
*** Products and consumers
*** Solidarity ethics
*** Some notes on resistance today
*** Ecology
*** Unions
*** National liberation
*** Solidarity forever
*** Further Reading