Graham R (Ed.) - Anarchism - A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas Volume One - From Anarchy to Anarchism (300 CE to 1939)

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of kindred trades, local federations and consolidating the national federation so
that, moving on from the simple to the complex, and broadening the narrow horizons
within which producers have lived up to now, and by affording them more
bread, more sustenance, more intelligence, more life, we may join with the exploited
in the whole great confederation of all of the earth's producers and, on the basis of
such fellowship, stride on, steadfast and determined, to the conquest of economic
and social emancipation:
1. Organizing the Republic's working class into trades associations.
2 . Establishing trades and allied trades Federations on the footing of these
workers' associations.
3. Localities are to form Local Federations; the departments, Departmental Federations;
nations, Regional Federations; and the entire world, one International
Federation, complete with a Liaison Centre or Bureau for the larger Federations
among these groupings.
4. As is also the case with the Central Bureau appointed to handle liaison and
campaigning, members serving on bodies representing the Trades Federations
or AJlied Trades Federations, while enjoying complete autonomy in their internal
lives and liaisons, are to wield no authority and may at any time be replaced
through a vote of the majority of the fe derated associations assembled in Congress,
or by the determination of the fe derated associations as expressed
through their respective local trades Federations.
5. In every locality where ... affiliated federations have been set up, these may
declare that they have contracted into a free local agreement .
... 8. All ofthe member associations of this Federation undertake to practice the
fullest moral and material solidarity towards one another, making every effort
and sacrifice that circumstances may demand of them, so that the workers may
always emerge victorious from struggles provoked by the bourgeoisie and in
pressing the demands of the proletariat.
9. For effective solidarity in all struggles undertaken by the federated associations,
wherever possible, they should consult with their respective Federations
in order to discover precisely what means or resources are accessible to the
member associations.
10. Associations are free and autonomous within the Local Federation; free and
autonomous within the Trades and Allied Trades Federation; free and autono-