Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists

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Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists
Конфедерация анархо-синдикалистов
AbbreviationCAS (English)
КАС (Russian)
LeaderAndrey Isaev
Igor Podshivalov
Alexander Shubin
Vladlen Tupikin
FoundedJanuary 1988 (1988-01)
Dissolved1995 (1995)
Merged into (1990)
Succeeded by
NewspaperObshchina (Community)
IdeologyAnarcho-syndicalism
Syndicalism
Political positionFar-left
Colours  Red
  Black
Slogan"Power to peoples, not parties!"
(Russian: "Власть народам, а не партиям!")
Party flag
Anarchist flag.svg
Website
www.angelfire.com/ia/IOKAS
Irkutsk organization of CAS website

The Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists (CAS; Russian: Конфедерация анархо-синдикалистов; КАС; Konfederatsiya anarkho-sindikalistov, KAS) was a Soviet and Russian political organization founded in January 1988. Among the most active participants are: Andrey Isaev, Igor Podshivalov, Alexander Shubin, Vladlen Tupikin. The main slogan was "Power to the peoples, not to the parties!"

History[]

The group included anarchist groups from about 30 cities of the USSR, the total number in the best times consisted of several thousand participants. Members of the CAS actively participated in demonstrations, pickets, created lecture halls and discussion clubs, took part in environmental actions and speeches of workers (labor movement). They published the popular informal magazine "Community" (49 issues and a number of special issues were published, editors - Isaev, Shubin). In addition to "Community" at that time, more than a dozen publications were published - the newspapers "Volia", "Common Sense" (Moscow), "Nabat" (Kharkov), "Solntse" (Nizhny Novgorod) and others. CAS activists in August 1991 erected and defended a barricade at the White House.

The organization was at its highest levels of development and activity between 1989 and 1992.[1]

After at the II Congress of the CAS in 1990 it was decided that only syndicalists, part of anarchist groups (Saratov, Kazan, Saint Petersburg, Zaporizhzhia, Nizhny Novgorod, Cherkasy, Dnepropetrovsk), who disagreed with this decision, could be part of the Confederation, left the KAS and in June of the same year formed a new anarchist association - the Association of Anarchist Movements (ADA).

1993, the VI Congress of the ADA, proceeding from the fact that «the split ... was initiated by people who left the anarchist movement long ago (A. Isaev (Moscow), Dm. Zhvania (Piter), I. Rassokha (Kharkiv))»,invited the KAS participants to consider the question of joining the Association of Anarchist Movements.[2]

Since 1995, the organization is barely visible. Since the late 1990s, it has actually not existed, although some territorial entities continue to use the name and symbols (in particular, the Irkutsk organization of the KAS).

Many of the former KAS members have left for the trade union movement. In particular, activists of the anarcho-syndicalist movement in Siberia founded the Siberian Confederation of Labor (SKT) in 1995.[3] Andrei Isaev abandoned his leftist ideas and first joined the political bloc Fatherland - All Russia, which in 2001 merged with the Unity to form the centre-right United Russia.

References[]

  1. ^ Букетов К.А. (2014-09-23). "В поисках третьего пути: к 25-летию Конфедерации анархо-синдикалистов".
  2. ^ VI съезд АДА Обращение к организациям и индивидуальным членам КАС
  3. ^ "Василий Старостин: "Не быть попугаем" — Рабкор.ру". Archived from the original on 2011-09-15. Retrieved 2009-07-03.
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