is a current in the labor movement to establish local, worker-based organizations and advance the demands and rights of workers through strikes. Major
organizations include the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the General Confederation of Labor in
, and the Argentine Regional Workers' Federation. A number of
organizations were and still are to this day linked in the International Workers' Association.
the general
strike, as tactics in the class struggle, as opposed to indirect action such as
electoral politics. The final step towards
revolution, according to
syndicalists, would be a general
strike. Labor unions were seen as being the embryo of a new
society in addition to being the means of struggle within the old.
Syndicalists generally agreed that in a free
society production would be managed by workers. The state apparatus would be replaced by the rule of workers' organizations. In such a
society individuals would be liberated, both in the economic sphere but also in their private and social lives.