Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940: The Praxis of National Liberation, Internationalism, and Social Revolution issue 1874-6705

Before communism, anarchism and syndicalism were central to labour and the Left in the colonial and postcolonial world.Using studies from Africa,Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, this groundbreaking volume examines the revolutionary libertarian Left's class politics and anti-colonialism in the first globalization and imperialism(1870/1930). Contents......Page 6 List of Illustrations......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 List of Contributors......Page 12 Preface......Page 14 Rethinking Anarchism and Syndicalism: The Colonial and Postcolonial Experience, 1870–1940......Page 32 Part One Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial World......Page 76 "Diverse in race, religion and nationality ... but united in aspirations of civil progress": the anarchist movement in Egypt 1860–1940......Page 78 Revolutionary Syndicalism, Communism and the National Question in South African socialism, 1886–1928......Page 108 Korean Anarchism before 1945: a regional and transnational approach......Page 170 Anarchism and the Question of Place: thoughts from the Chinese experience......Page 206 The Makhnovist Movement and the National Question in the Ukraine, 1917–1921......Page 222 Syndicalism, Industrial Unionism, and Nationalism in Ireland......Page 268 Part Two Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Postcolonial World......Page 300 Peruvian Anarcho-Syndicalism: adapting transnational influences and forging counterhegemonic practices, 1905–1930......Page 302 Tropical Libertarians: anarchist movements and networks in the Caribbean, Southern United States, and Mexico, 1890s–1920s......Page 348 Straddling the Nation and the Working World: anarchism and syndicalism on the docks and rivers of Argentina, 1900–1930......Page 396 Constructing Syndicalism and Anarchism Globally: the transnational making of the syndicalist movement in São Paulo, Brazil, 1895–1935......Page 438 Final Reflections: the vicissitudes of anarchist and syndicalist trajectories, 1940 to the present......Page 470 Index......Page 488 Narratives of anarchist and syndicalist history during the era of the first globalization and imperialism (1870-1930) have overwhelmingly been constructed around a Western European tradition centered on discrete national cases. This parochial perspective typically ignores transnational connections and the contemporaneous existence of large and influential libertarian movements in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. Yet anarchism and syndicalism, from their very inception at the First International, were conceived and developed as international movements. By focusing on the neglected cases of the colonial and postcolonial world, this volume underscores the worldwide dimension of these movements and their centrality in anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles. Drawing on in-depth historical analyses of the ideology, structure, and praxis of anarchism/syndicalism, it also provides fresh perspectives and lessons for those interested in understanding their resurgence today. Contributors are Luigi Biondi, Arif Dirlik, Anthony Gorman, Steven Hirsch, Dongyoun Hwang, Geoffroy de Laforcade, Emmet O'Connor, Kirk Shaffer, Aleksandr Shubin, Edilene Toledo, and Lucien van der Walt. With a foreword by Benedict Anderson. "Narratives of anarchist and syndicalist history during the era of the first globalization and imperialism (1870-1930) have overwhelmingly been constructed around a Western European tradition centered on discrete national cases. This parochial perspective typically ignores transnational connections and the contemporaneous existence of large and influential libertarian movements in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. Yet anarchism and syndicalism, from their very inception at the First International, were conceived and developed as international movements. By focusing on the neglected cases of the colonial and postcolonial world this volume underscores the worldwide dimension of these movements, and their centrality in anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles. Drawing on in-depth historical analyses of the ideology: structure and praxis of anarchism/syndicalism, it also provides fresh perspectives and lessons for those interested in understanding their resurgence today." -- Provided by publisher Edited By Steven Hirsch, Lucien Van Der Walt. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.