Introduction

Chapter 1

José Luis García Rúa

Chapter 2

It All Started Like This:

Quote from Anselmo Lorenzo, El Proletariado Militante (The Militant Proletariat, 1868).

Chapter 3

Introduction.

Much time has passed since 1868. The speeches of Fanelli will not impress anyone nowadays, accustomed as we are to special effects movies. The times and the ways have changed, however the essence of exploitation is the same.

Nowadays, equality that yesterday (same as yesterday), we continue resisting, continue undermining the State and Capital, and we prepare to provoke the arrival of better times. The profound injustices and crimes of capitalism, that condemns the majority of humanity to a unhealthy, malnourished, sick and exploited life... they do not predict better? have have the dictatorships of the oligarchies called communists?.

This pamphlet is intended for the companeros and companeras that bring up, for persons that do not know us and that more than once wonder what they can do. It seeks to give them a basic explanation on what Spanish anarcho-syndicalism is, in its stage of actual development, how it functions, how it struggles, how it is structured, what ends it persues and definitively, however we follow equally digging our heels as our people of the last century, now that they say to us that we live in a best of possible worlds. Those that want a more erudite work have at their disposal abundant bibliography.

We have intended to do it in a language, plain, pleasant and simple, in order that anyone can understand it.

We want to show that anarcho-syndicalism is not something boring, of the past, without a life form and dynamism of action, profoundly original and innovative in its (unknown – planteamientos – demands?). Its proposal is not the institutionalisation or the functioning at the margins of State-Capital. Its alternative, the transformation of society. This is a book on basic anarcho-syndicalism, not a manual of style, neither a set of fixed rules. We want to speak of creativity, of love, of happiness, of liberty, of tolerance... not of regulations. Each situation requires an alert and new attitude in order to be overcome. Only we offer you the resume of a century and a quarter of anti-authoritarian experience, of struggle against power, of transformed hope.

We expect that persons of every type take into consideration our proposals. The old, the mean, the archaic represent capital and the state. The new world is in the anarcho-syndicalist union.

SEVILLE 1994.