Goals and Means

"Essential reading for anyone interested in the wider roots and antecedents of international syndicalism and anarchism." --David Welch, author of Propaganda, Power and Persuasion: From the First World War to WikiLeaks Goals and Means investigates the relationship between revolutionary syndicalism and anarchism in Spain from the founding of the Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) in 1910 to the Second Republic in 1931. Garner explores Spanish anarcho-syndicalism's unique characteristics while placing its development within global events and the wider international syndicalist movement. Anarcho-syndicalism is a hybrid of revolutionary syndicalism in which the anarchist goal--the triumph of the social revolution and the implantation of libertarian socialism--would be achieved by syndicalism's tactical means. Working outside statist and collaborationist political structures did not, however, mean abandoning political strategy. The Federacion Anarquista Iberica (FAI) was formed in 1927 and quickly sought to ensure a role for anarchism within the syndicalist union. The development of anarcho-syndicalism--and the tensions it spawned within the larger socialist movement--has much to teach us today as we chart our own future. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1. Revolutionary Syndicalism before 1917

The First International and the Birth of the Anarchist Movement

The First International in Spain

Division, Wilderness and Violence - Propaganda of the Deed 2. The Early Years of the CNT: Germination

The Formation of the CNT

The London International Syndicalist Congress, September 1913

Anarchist Internationalism before the First World War

The El Ferrol International Congress of Peace, 1915

Working-Class Unity: Revolutionary Syndicalism and ReformistSocialism 3. Revolutionary Politics and Revolutionary Syndicalism

Initial Reaction to the Bolshevik Revolution

The Delegation to the Second Comintern Congress

The Delegation to the Inaugural Profintern Congress

Separated by an Ideological and Tactical Chasm 4. An Independent Revolutionary Syndicalist International

Revolutionary Syndicalist Internationalism following the LondonCongress, 1913

The Formation of the New IWMA

Reaction to the IWMA within the CNT 5. Early Conflicts between Anarchism and Syndicalism

Anarchist Reaction to the Rise and Demise of the CNT, 1918-1922

The International Anarchist Congresses of 1921 and 1923

The Madrid National Anarchist Congress, 1923

The Growth in Anarchist Activity in the Unions in 1923 6. Ideological Conflict in the First Years of the Dictatorship

The International Dispute between the Catalan CRT and the Argentine FORA

Ideological Conflicts in Catalonia

Anarchists against the MOA

Syndicalist Shortcomings Exposed 7. Exile in France: International Solidarity and National Disunity

Libertarian Exiles in France before November 1924

Organising in Exile: The FGALEF and the Cuadros Sindicales

International Contacts 8. Anarchist Organisation and Syndicalist Overreaction

The Proposed Iberian Syndicalist Confederation

The Creation of the Federacion Anarquista Iberica

FAI Collaboration in the Reorganisation of the CNT

The FAI's International Policy

Angel Pestana and the Professionalisation of the CNT

Return to Legality - The 1930 Relaunch of the CNT Conclusion Endnotes Index