- Λεπτομέρειες
- Ομάδα Αναρχοσυνδικαλιστών
- English
An English translation of a historical (early 1980s) Greek anarchosyndicalist text by the Anarchosyndicalists Group, also available as PDF and OpenDocument. The Greek original is at http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=en&article_id=204256
The Anarchosyndicalists’ Group
Early 1980s, Greece
Translated 2009
Translator’s foreword
For the first time this historical and hard-to-find document of the Greek anarchosyndicalist movement is presented in English: the ‘Revolutionary syndicalism and organization’ (‘Επαναστατικός συνδικαλισμός και οργάνωση’) was printed in the early 1980s as a small brochure in polytonic Greek (then the standard form of written language) by the Anarchosyndicalists’ Group (Ομάδα Αναρχοσυνδικαλιστών), an organization active during 1980–1982 in Athens, Greece. This profound text was in danger of being forgotten in archives – until a digitized edition in monotonic Greek was made available over the internet in 2004 on Athens Indymedia, and later in 2009 re-posted on Anarkismo (which is the exact source used for this translation):
* 2004 edition on Athens IMC: http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=en&article_id=204256
* 2009 re-publication on Anarkismo: http://www.anarkismo.net/article/13745
This translation was finalized on 25 August 2009. Please do be bold in improving it, particularly if you can read the original. You are at liberty in copying and disseminating this text in an unlimited fashion. More translations in other languages are happily welcome to help spread the revolutionary ideas that will prepare the ground for the coming insurrections which will forge the new worldwide civilization of free women and men.
As of 2004 there is a mostly complete archive of documents by the Anarchosyndicalists’ Group at the Libertarian Historical Archive, PO box 53, Naousa, Paros Island, postal code 84 401, Cyclades Islands, Greece (Ελευθεριακό Ιστορικό Αρχείο, Τ.Θ. 53 Νάουσα Πάρου 84 401, Κυκλάδες), email:
[text in square brackets and the graphic decoration constitute additions by the translator]
REVOLUTIONARY SYNDICALISM AND ORGANIZATION
By the The Anarchosyndicalists’ Group
[An early 1980s brochure first printed in polytonic Greek in Athens, Greece; monotonized and digitized on-line in 2004; translated into English in 2009].
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[Translator’s note: in the next paragraph, where it says GSEE, it refers to the largest Greek labour union, the General Confederation of Workers].
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