Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940

The Praxis of National Liberation, Internationalism, and Social Revolution

Edited by Steven Hirsch Lucien van der Walt

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LEIDEN . BOSTON 2010 CONTENTS

List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix List of Contributors xi

Preface xiii Benedict Anderson

Rethinking Anarchism and Syndicalism: the colonial and postcolonial experience, 1870-1940 xxxi Lucien van der Walt and Steven J. Hirsch

PART ONE ANARCHISM AND SYNDICALISM IN THE COLONIAL WORLD

"Diverse in race, religion and nationality...but united in aspirations of civil progress": the anarchist movement in Egypt 1860-1940 3 Anthony Gorman

Revolutionary Syndicalism, Communism and the National Question in South African socialism, 1886-1928 33 Lucien van der Walt

Korean Anarchism before 1945: a regional and transnational approach 95 Dongyoun Hwang

Anarchism and the Question of Place: thoughts from the Chinese experience 131 ArifDirlik

The Makhnovist Movement and the National Question in the Ukraine, 1917-1921 147 Aleksandr Shubin VI CONTENTS

Syndicalism, Industrial Unionism, and Nationalism in Ireland 193 Emmet O'Connor

PART TWO ANARCHISM AND SYNDICALISM IN THE POSTCOLONIAL WORLD

Peruvian Anarcho-Syndicalism: adapting transnational influences and forging counterhegemonic practices, 1905-1930 227 Steven J. Hirsch

Tropical Libertarians: anarchist movements and networks in the Caribbean, Southern United States, and Mexico, 1890s-1920s 273 Kirk Shaffer

Straddling the Nation and the Working World: anarchism and syndicalism on the docks and rivers of Argentina, 1900-1930 .' 321 Geoffroy de Laforcade

Constructing Syndicalism and Anarchism Globally: the transnational making of the syndicalist movement in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1895-1935 363 Edilene Toledo and Luigi Biondi

Final Reflections: the vicissitudes of anarchist and syndicalist trajectories, 1940 to the present 395 Steven J. Hirsch and Lucien van der Walt

Index 413