WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE ITALY - news journal UPDATE - (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #6-25: Review: Anarcho-syndicalism in Germany - Hartmut Rübner (ca, de, it, pt, tr) [machine translation]

 From the invitation to read Hartmut Rübner's text by translator David

Bernardini: «Questioning the responses given by social movements of the
past to the difficulties dictated by hostile contexts, if not
(apparently) without a way out, can help us reflect on a present in
which much seems to march against a future without domination of man
over man and of man over nature. In moments of crisis, new paths are
activated, new strategies are experimented, practices and perspectives
are questioned, attempting to remain faithful to certain ideal
principles». ---- Thanks to this agile book we learn about a forty-year
period (1892-1933) of the history of anarchism in Germany and in
particular of the FAUD - an acronym translated as Free Union of German
Workers.

These are little-known events in our Italian-language movement, events
that show us a parable of courageous organizational attempts carried out
by comrades from a century ago in Germany. We learn about trade
organizations and trade union "localism" which, despite a name that
seems mysterious or reductive to us today, was an early form of
revolutionary trade unionism. We then move on to the rise of
anarcho-syndicalism, its years of greatest representativeness, between
1918 and 1923, the period of the Weimar Republic and its slow
transformation and drastic reduction, up to the rise of the Nazi
dictatorship in 1933. A decline, or slow transformation, which was never
a renunciation of one's ideals, Rübner claims: "The FAUD maintained its
theoretical and programmatic frame of reference until the end, as well
as its original character as an anti-authoritarian cultural movement and
organization of economic struggle." The FAUD may have failed in its
ambition as a revolutionary union but not in its political and
"educational" influence: housing and production cooperatives, consumer
associations, free schools influenced by the pedagogical method of
Francisco Ferrer, leisure groups, the League of Women Trade Unionists.
And then publishing houses, newspapers, libertarian culture: all tools
that the FAUD was able to offer to free women and men for the immense
struggle against the state and capitalism and for the resistance to
Nazism, inside and outside Germany.

The text also offers a very interesting documentary appendix with
contributions by Rudolf Rocker, Augustin Souchy and Gerhard Wartenberg
accompanied by their biographical profiles

Anarcho-syndicalism in Germany, by Hartmut Rübner. Affirmation, rise and
decline (1892-1933)

Preface and translation by David Bernardini - Ed. Malamente, Urbino, 125
pages, € 15€

Davide

https://umanitanova.org/recensione-lanarcosindacalismo-in-germania-hartmut-rubner/
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