Syndicalist Workers' Federation
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Syndicalist Workers' Federation was a syndicalist group in Britain. It was formed in 1950 by many members of the recently dissolved Anarchist Federation of Britain, and as a result it was always primarily an anarcho-syndicalist organisation.
The group joined the International Working Men's Association and gave particular support to the Spanish resistance. It initially had some successes, but when Tom Brown, a long-term and very active member was forced out of activity, it declined until by 1979 it had only one base, in Manchester. The group then dissolved itself into the Direct Action Movement, which later formed the Solidarity Federation.
[edit] References
- Peter Barberis, John McHugh and Mike Tyldesley, Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations
- Albert Meltzer, I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels
- "The Direct Action Movement", Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library
