A-Infos (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #21-25 - Anarchism and workers' organization (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

taken from "The workers' organization and anarchy" by Luigi Fabbri ---- 
The corporate organization of workers for resistance and anti-boss 
attack can become libertarian, only if the anarchists bring into it not 
dissolution but the breath of their vivifying ideas, exercising their 
influence, unfailing to their revolutionary energy. That it is possible 
for the workers' organization to assume a revolutionary and libertarian 
character and that we are on the way to making it so also in Italy, is 
told to us by the still confused but increasingly precise movement, 
under the name of syndicalism.

And its necessity is increasingly asserted, not only as a weapon of 
struggle, a powerful catapult against the wall that defends the class 
interests of the bourgeoisie, but also and above all as the organism 
that is preparing to replace, without the need for state and 
centralizing powers, after the revolution, the authoritarian organisms 
that today manage public services, and the whole mechanism, today 
monopolized to the advantage of an idle and plundering minority, of 
production and distribution.

It is Bakunin's concept, that free trade organizations, federated in the 
communes, of the communes in the nation, of the nations in the 
international, will replace the heavy mechanism, three-quarters useless 
and harmful, of the authoritarian and overbearing state. The union, as 
it is now called, will be the basic nucleus of socialist and libertarian 
society.

Therefore, for us socialist-anarchists, the workers' organization must 
have an ultimate goal, and an immediate one. Its ultimate goal must be 
the expropriation of capital by the associated workers, that is, the 
restitution to the producers, and through them to their associations, of 
all that their work has produced, of all that the work of the working 
class has produced throughout the centuries, of all that without the 
work of the workers would have no value. The immediate goal is to 
develop ever more the spirit of solidarity among the oppressed and of 
resistance against the oppressors, to keep the proletariat exercised 
with the continuous gymnastics of the workers' struggle in its most 
diverse forms, to conquer today all that it is possible to wrest, 
however little it may be, from capitalism, in well-being and freedom.

The workers' organization also has a civil mission of education, in 
addition to that of economic combat, which is far more interesting than 
the special propaganda of a special political dogma.

Its mission is to unite the proletariat in a single heartbeat above 
scholastic, partisan, political and national divisions, and to make it a 
single block against international capitalism, which teaches us how to 
stay united, by oppressing us, be it blue, white or scarlet, be it 
Italian, French or German. And beyond this, it has the mission of being 
the crucible in which the consciences suitable for a future society of 
free and equal people are formed, because in the workers' organization 
the anarchists see the same embryonic forms of the socialist and 
libertarian society, the initial nuclei that will allow the people, thus 
trained to govern themselves, to replace today's authoritarian system 
with the libertarian one, without creating more or less democratic 
dictatorships from scratch.

In order for workers' unions to remain on this line, they must take care 
never to lose sight of the ultimate goal, that is, that the immediate 
goals are never in contradiction with the mediated ones, and so the 
means used are, in addition to being suitable for achieving an intent 
and a partial improvement, also such as not to lead the proletariat on a 
path opposite to that which will lead it to the abolition of all 
privileges. In addition to this, the workers' organization must ensure 
that all workers can belong to it, whatever the special political faith 
of each one, it being enough that all are in agreement against capitalism.

The only ground suitable for the harmony of all efforts, of all 
activities and individualities, and also suitable for the harmony and 
continuous correlation between the end and the means, between the 
general final aim and the immediate, partial aims, this only ground is 
direct action, deployed by workers in the economic field, independent of 
any political party, outside of any governmental and parliamentary 
influence and interference, based and confident only in their own forces 
to the exclusion of any means that do not arise from the organization 
itself and that cannot be completely and directly explained by it.

This concept of workers' struggle that the socialist-anarchists have 
always had is precisely what, with a new word, embraced today by an 
ever-increasing number of workers, even non-anarchists, is called 
syndicalism, a new word that says something very old, since the union is 
nothing else, with a word derived from the French (syndicat) than the 
trade union and precisely our resistance league.

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