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Editorial Ralph Darlington Revolutionary Syndicalism

Throughout the history of capitalism the ideas and practices of revolutionary unionism the notion that the trade unions should go beyond merely attempting to improve workers’ terms and conditions of employment within the framework of capitalist society, to become the chief instrument through which workers can overthrow capitalism and establish a completely new society – have regularly emerged. For example, in Britain the Grand National Consolidated Trades’ Union of the 1830s aimed to build a massive single union that would represent the whole working class. Robert Owen promoted the body as the vehicle for the concerted and simultaneous ‘Grand National Holiday’ (general strike) that would force the capitalists to voluntary abdicate their position as owners and directors of the means of production and usher in a new socialist society. Likewise in early industrial America, the Knights of Labor, the first important national labour organisation to appear, committed itself to a form of revolutionary trade unionism. And throughout the 20 century syndicalists, anarchists, socialists and communists alike all sought to either transform existing reformist trade unions into revolutionary instruments of struggle against capitalism, or build entirely new anti-capitalist and revolutionary union bodies. From the Red International of Labour Unions formed by the Communist International in Moscow in the early 1920s, to the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement formed by a number of black union militants in Detroit car plants in the late 1960s, forms of revolutionary unionism were a persistent theme. But undoubtedly historically the most significant revolutionary union movement, in terms of its numerical size, influence and international reach, was provided by the phenomena of revolutionary syndicalism.