Syndicalist Workers Federation
Syndicalist Workers Federation
British anarcho-syndicalist group active from the 1950s until the late 1970s.
Aims and principles of the Syndicalist Workers Federation
The Aims and principles of the Syndicalist Workers Federation, which was the British Section of the anarchosyndicalist International Workingmen's Association (IWA). For a history of the IWA see A short history of the IWA, 1922-Today on libcom.org/history
Aims and principles
Unholy alliance - The seamen's strike: an analysis - George Foulser
An article by George Fulser of the Syndicalist Workers Federation on the 1966 seaman's strike
Unholy alliance - The 1966 Seamen's Strike: An analysis
Direct Action Pamphlets #10
The backdoor agreement
The seamen's struggle of 1966 was beaten before it began. There are plenty of details to show how and why this was so.
Seamen had won a 44-hour week in 1961, following, their unofficial 1960 dispute, by threatening another go if the 1960 aims were not conceded.
Foulser, George, 1920-1975
A short biography of British anarchist seaman and occasional writer, George Foulser.
George Foulser
Born 1920 – UK, died March 1975 – London, UK
"I have never paid off a deep-sea ship without having converted at least one shipmate to a revolutionary working-class point of view."
