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Peruvian Regional Workers' Federation
The Peruvian Regional Workers' Federation ( es, link=no, Federación Obrera Regional Peruana, FORP) was an anarcho-syndicalist federation of Trade union, unions, Guilds and Secret society, resistance societies that was founded in 1912 in Peru. It was prominent in the fight to achieve the eight-hour workday. History Background At the end of the 19th century the first trade unions were founded in Peru, some with marked anarchist influences. However, anarchism remained largely unorganized and dispersed until the beginning of the 20th century. In 1904, Manuel Caracciolo Lévano, Delfín Lévano, Fidel García Gacitúa and Urmachea, all anarchist militants, founded a Bakers Union and organized the country's first strike. On May 1, 1905, they paid homage to the Chicago Martyrs for the first time. In 1907 the anarchists supported a dockers' strike in the port of El Callao, where the repression ended with the killing of Florencio Aliaga, the first death of the Peruvian labor movement. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anarcho-syndicalist
Anarcho-syndicalism is a political philosophy and anarchist school of thought that views revolutionary industrial unionism or syndicalism as a method for workers in capitalist society to gain control of an economy and thus control influence in broader society. The end goal of syndicalism is to abolish the wage system, regarding it as wage slavery. Anarcho-syndicalist theory generally focuses on the labour movement. Reflecting the anarchist philosophy from which it draws its primary inspiration, anarcho-syndicalism is centred on the idea that power corrupts and that any hierarchy that cannot be ethically justified must be dismantled. The basic principles of anarcho-syndicalism are solidarity, direct action (action undertaken without the intervention of third parties such as politicians, bureaucrats and arbitrators) and direct democracy, or workers' self-management. Anarcho-syndicalists believe their economic theories constitute a strategy for facilitating proletarian self-activity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
