Ομάδα Αναρχοσυνδικαλιστών

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08 Νοεμβρίου 2010

• anarchism
• Greece
• syndicalism
• working class

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: Αυτή η διεύθυνση Email προστατεύεται από τους αυτοματισμούς αποστολέων ανεπιθύμητων μηνυμάτων. Χρειάζεται να ενεργοποιήσετε τη JavaScript για να μπορέσετε να τη δείτε.

[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].

A few days ago we learnt from the press of the completion of the trickery orchestrated behind our backs by the servile bootlickers of the country’s labour union and the bosses.

[Translator’s note: in the next paragraph, where it says GSEE, it refers to the largest Greek labour union, the General Confederation of Workers].

As they do every year, the self-appointed ‘protectors of workers’ this year negotiated with the bosses the price of our labour power.  The fraud was finalized with a 15% increase in our wages while the retail price index and the bosses’ profits have sky-rocketed.  This deception will continue for as long as we let the GSEE bootlickers and all political parties’ reformists to have the upper hand in our struggle and decide for our lives – these bootlickers and reformists have converted workers’ syndicates in bureaucratic machines under the control of the various Boards of Directors, the political parties’ trustees and the bosses together with a small...

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