Contribute
We want to publish as much as we can about syndicalism. If you’d like to help us in that endeavor, our needs mainly boil down to three things:
- Texts
- Metadata
- Images
That is, in addition to the actual text of some publication, we need the details about who authored it and when and where it was published, as well as an image to go along with it. Any context (for instance, if a particular text was in response to some other work or if it is a selection from a longer piece) is also useful.
The main bottleneck we have is with images. If you’d like to contribute one, we’re looking for original or public domain images (altered if you so desire) that have something to do with labor or direct action - scenes of people working, strikes, pickets, crowds at rallies or speeches, etc. Take a look at those that accompany our current set of texts for examples. Their aspect ratio should be 16:9, with a minimum size of 1280 x 720 pixels (and preferably 1920 x 1080). File size should be no larger than 2mb, and preferably closer to 1mb. For public domain images, please include the source and url where it can be found.
Our color palette is:
- #c11b17
- #262626
- #fff7e0
- #46323b
- #988f2a
After images, our next biggest need is digitized copy of printed materials, which typically takes the form of scanned pdfs. Links to these from elsewhere or the actual files themselves will work. We need this not only for the actual content, but also for proofing against digital text that may already exist online.
Finally, we’re also interested in suggestions of materials to add, even if it’s just a title or a link to something.
If you would like to send something our way, please drop us a line at syndTwitter. If you send an image that you created or altered, please let us know how you’d like to be attributed. If you’re on Twitter, let us know your username so we can mention you when we post the text (unless you don’t want us to).
icalismorg@pro tonma il.com. If you don’t have any files to send, you can also mention us or send us a direct message onBelow you can find our up-to-date queue of things we’re going to publish, along with our progress/needs on them. If you can help with one of them in some manner, we’d greatly appreciate it.
Text Queue
This is a list of all the texts that we currently have queued up to publish, in roughly the order in which we intend to add them. Their statuses range from nearly done to “hey, we’ve heard of this one.” The tags on them show what work is still needed. If a text has no tag, it means it’s just about finished and no help is needed on it.
- need graphic - we need an image to go along with the text
- need metadata - we have some info on this but we’re missing some or still trying to confirm something
- need printed text - we need some sort of printed version of the text - e.g. a scanned pdf or a physical copy
- need digital text - we need to find a digital version of this somewhere or transcribe it ourselves
Swedish Syndicalism: An outline of its ideology and practice - SAC (2021)
need graphic
FAQ on Syndicalism - SAC (2021)
need graphic
Workers’ Control and the Wage System (Ideas: What is Anarcho-Syndicalism?) - Albert Meltzer (1952)
need graphic
need printed text
need metadata
What is anarcho-syndicalism? - Liberté Ouvrière (2020)
need graphic
The Charter of Amiens (1906)
need graphic
need printed text
need metadata
A Wee Black Book of Belfast Anarchism (1867-1973) - Máirtín Ó Catháin (2012 - 2nd edition)
need graphic
review of Black Cat's International Anarchist Congress - Dimitris Troaditis (2012)
need graphic
Principles of Syndicalism - Tom Brown - 1943
need graphic
What Is Anarcho-Syndicalism? - Libertarian Reformism, Vanguardism or Revolutionary Unionism? - Peter Principle (1996)
need graphic
The Program of Anarcho-Syndicalism - Maximov (1927)
need graphic
need metadata
need printed text
need digital text
Winning the Class War: An Anarcho-Syndicalist Strategy - DAM (1991)
need metadata
need graphic
need printed text
The Sonvilier Circular - The delegates to the Congress of the Fédération Jurassienne (1871)
need metadata
need graphic
need printed text
Anarcho-Syndicalism & the Rank and File Movement - author? (1961)
need graphic
need metadata
need printed text
need digital text
Notes from the Class Struggle: Small Group workplace Organizing in present-day Germany and the Netherlands - A.G. Amsterdam/FAU Bremen (2004)
need graphic
Direct Action - Emile Pouget (year?)
need graphic
need printed text
need metadata
Revolutionary Romanticism - Victor Griffuehles (1908)
need graphic
need printed text
need digital text
A Syndicalist League - Harry Kelly (1912)
need graphic
The Syndicalist Educational League - Hippolyte Havel and Harry Kelly (1912)
need graphic
How We Shall Bring about the Revolution (review of the book) - Max Baginski (1913)
need graphic
Sorel and the Anarchists - R.A.P. (1915)
need graphic
Anarchist Methods in Revolutionary Syndicalism - author? (1911) (published in Freedom)
need graphic
need metadata
need printed text
need digital text
International Anarchist Congress in Amsterdam - Freedom (1907)
need graphic
ABC Syndicalist - Georges Yvetot (1908?)
need graphic
need digital text
need printed text
Anarcho-Syndicalism & Workers Councils - Albert Meltzer (1948)
need graphic
need printed text
need digital text
Sabotage: Its History, Philosophy and Function by Walker C. Smith (1910s)
need graphic
The relevance of anarcho-syndicalism - Chomsky interview (1976)
need graphic
Currents of Italian Syndicalism before 1926 - Carl Levy (2000)
need graphic
Syndicalism and the Cooperative Commonwealth (How we shall bring about the revolution) - Emile Petaud and Emile Pouget (1909)
need graphic
need metadata
need digital text
Anarcho Syndicalism - Rocker
need graphic
Anarcho-syndicalism in the 20th Century - Vadim Damier (2000)
need graphic
Histoire des Bourses du Travail - Pelloutier (year?) (book)
need graphic
need printed text
need digital text
need metadata
proceedings of the First International Syndicalist Congress (1913) (not sure if this even exists)
need graphic
need metadata
need printed text
need digital text
Story of the Syndicalist Workers' Federation: Born in Struggle - Tom Brown (1968)
need printed text
need metadata
need graphic
Syndicalists in the Russian Revolution - G.P. Maximoff (year?)
need metadata
need graphic
Industrial Socialism (year?) by Haywood and Bohn
need graphic
need digital text
Points of Unity - Workers Solidarity Movement (year?)
need graphic
The Labor Movement of France, a Study in Revolutionary Syndicalism - Louis Levine (1912)
need graphic