Anarcho-syndicalism is a political philosophy and anarchist school of thought that views revolutionary industrial unionism or syndicalism as a method for workers in capitalist society to gain control of an economy and thus control influence in broader society. The end goal of syndicalism is to abolish the wage system, regarding it as wage slavery. Anarcho-syndicalist theory therefore generally focuses on the labour movement.
The International Workers' Association – Asociación Internacional de los Trabajadores (IWA–AIT) is an international federation of anarcho-syndicalist labor unions and initiatives.
The Socialist Alternative Politics is a Trotskyist political group in the Netherlands without parliamentary representation.
The Revolutionary Socialist Party was a Dutch socialist political party, that has been variously characterized as Trotskyite and syndicalist. In 1935 it merged with the Independent Socialist Party (OSP) to form the Revolutionary Socialist Workers' Party, but most of the former OSP members left the united party the same year. Henk Sneevliet was the RSP/RSAP's undisputed leader throughout its existence, as well as its only Representative.
The Socialist Party, also called the "Kolthek party" after its founder Harm Kolthek, was a Dutch revolutionary syndicalist political party. It was represented in Parliament between 1918 and 1922.
The National Labor Secretariat was a trade union federation in the Netherlands from 1893 to 1940.
Christiaan Gerardus Cornelissen was a Dutch syndicalist writer, economist, and trade unionist.
The First International Syndicalist Congress was a meeting of European and Latin American syndicalist organizations at Holborn Town Hall in London from September 27 to October 2, 1913. Upon a proposal by the Dutch National Labor Secretariat (NAS) and the British Industrial Syndicalist Education League (ISEL), most European syndicalist groups, both trade unions and advocacy groups, agreed to congregate at a meeting in London. The only exception was the biggest syndicalist organization worldwide, the French General Confederation of Labor (CGT). Nevertheless, the congress was held with organizations from twelve countries participating. It was marked by heated debate and constant disagreements over both tactics and principles. Yet, it succeeded in creating the International Syndicalist Information Bureau as a vehicle of exchange and solidarity between the various organizations and the Bulletin international du mouvement syndicaliste as a means of communication. It would be viewed as a success by almost all who participated.
The Continental American Workers Association was an anarcho-syndicalist trade union confederation that functioned as the Latin American branch of the International Workers' Association.
The Confederation of Revolutionary Anarcho-Syndicalists is the Russian section of the International Workers' Association (AIT). CRAS-IWA is committed to the development of anarchist trade union movement, so as to enable the transition from modern capitalism to statefree communism.
The Taman Siswa was a Javanese educational movement in the Dutch East Indies, founded in July 1922 by Ki Hadjar Dewantara (1889–1959), who was born as Raden Mas Soewardi Soerjaningrat, a Javanese nobleman.
Johannes Aloysius Antonius Engelman was a Dutch writer. He was the recipient of the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 1954.
De AS (Anarcho-Socialist) is a Dutch anarchist quarterly, published by De AS Foundation in Moerkapelle. The first issue appeared in December 1972.
Clara Gertrud Wichmann, also known as Clara Meijer-Wichmann was a German–Dutch lawyer, writer, anarcho-syndicalist, feminist and atheist.
Harm Kolthek Jr. was a Dutch printer, journalist, trade unionist and libertarian socialist politician. Kolthek led the syndicalist federation of trade unions, the National Labor Secretariat (NAS), from 1907 to 1913. He later founded and led the Socialist Party, sometimes called the "Kolthek party" after its founder, and served in the Netherlands House of Representatives for this party from 1918 to 1922.
Anton Levien Constandse was a Dutch anarchist author and journalist.
Anarchism in the Netherlands originated in the second half of the 19th century. Its roots lay in the radical and revolutionary ideologies of the labor movement, in anti-authoritarian socialism, the free thinkers and in numerous associations and organizations striving for a libertarian form of society. During the First World War, individuals and groups of syndicalists and anarchists of various currents worked together for conscientious objection and against government policies. The common resistance was directed against imperialism and militarism.
Anarchism in Indonesia has its roots in the anti-colonial struggle against the Dutch Empire. It became an organized movement at the behest of Chinese anarchist immigrants, who played a key part in the development of the workers' movement in the country. The anarchist movement was suppressed, first by the Japanese occupation of Indonesia, then by the successive regimes of Sukarno and Suharto, before finally re-emerging in the 1990s.
Dirk Lodewijk Willem van Mierop, was a Dutch author, anti-militarist, magazine editor, activist, organizer, pacifist and Christian anarchist. Together with Felix Ortt, van Mierop was one of the most influential Christian anarchists in the Netherlands.
Daniël Daan Goulooze was a Dutch Jewish construction worker who was a committed communist and resistance fighter. Goulooze was originally an anarchist but from 1935, he became a Communist and active member of the Communist International (Comintern) as an assistant to Comintern director Georgi Dimitrov. Before and during the Second World War, he was the liaison between the Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN) and the Communist International (Comintern) organisation in Moscow. Later he worked in the Comintern liaison office, his main duty being to maintain on-going radio contact with Soviet intelligence. His signals were detected by the Funkabwehr and he was arrested and sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Goulooze survived the war. In 1948 he was expelled from the CPN.
