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By solfed-iwa, 18 August, 2026

Liverpool - Reading group - Principles of Syndicalism by Tom Brown (part two)

lsfLiverpool SolFed's famous reading group is back, and this time it's the second part.

This time, we'll be discussing Principles of Syndicalism by Tom Brown, parts 5-9. You can read it here

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It will take place at 18:00 on Sunday 23rd August. Message us for the location, or email us at LiverpoolSolFed@gmail.com

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By solfed-iwa, 1 January, 1946

Nationalisation and the new boss class (Tom Brown, 1946)

Nationalisation and the new boss classNationalisation and the new boss class

By Tom Brown

‘DIRECT ACTION’ PAMPHLETS No.3

Victory over Toryism

THE AIR RAID sirens had hardly sounded the last all-clear when Britain was thrust into the hurly-burly of a General Election. Before the world’s first atom bombs had fallen on Japanese cities, a Labour Government with an overwhelming majority ruled the House of Commons, and when victory over Japan followed victory over Germany, a Labour Prime Minister, head of a victorious Labour Government, rose to tell a House of Commons packed to the roof with his jubilant comrades.

The road was now open, the way to the New Jerusalem was clear.

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Trade unionism or syndicalism? (Tom Brown, 1943)

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Table of Contents

  • 1. What’s wrong with the unions? [1]
    • Craft or industrial unionism? [2]
    • Doss house organising [3]
    • Coffin clubs [3]
    • Climbing the social ladder [3]
    • Trade unions and the state [4]
  • 2. Strike action [4]
    • The lightning strike [5]
    • The boycott [6]
    • ”Work to rule” [6]
    • The social strike [6]
  • 3. The social general strike [7]
    • Can it be done? [7]
    • The "June days” in France [8]
    • The balance sheet [9]
  • 4. Workers’ control of industry [9]
    • Government by amateurs [10]
    • A new social principle [10]
  • 5. A Spanish lesson [11]
    • Collectives everywhere [12]
    • The fertile land [12]
  • 6. Revolution of construction [13]
  • Aims and objects of the International Working Men’s Association [14]
  • I. Introduction [14]
  • II. Principles of revolutionary syndicalism [15]

First published in 1940 by Freedom Press, 27 Belsize Road, London. Revised and enlarged edition published October 1942. Reprinted Sept. 1943

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