The First International Syndicalist Congress was a meeting of European and Latin American syndicalist organizations at Holborn Town Hall in London that began on this day in 1913. The congress was attended by 38 delegates representing 65 organizations from Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Cuba, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, with a total membership between 220,000 and 250,000.

Despite being marked by heated disagreements over both tactics and principles, the Congress succeeded in creating the International Syndicalist Information Bureau as a vehicle of exchange and solidarity between the various organizations, and the "Bulletin international du mouvement syndicaliste" as a means of communication. It would be viewed as a success by almost all who participated.

The First International Congress of Revolutionary Trade Unions (July 3rd to 19th 1921)

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  • Graphite22 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    You're not alone there. I hate it with every fiber of my being.

    I still to this day have troubles when it comes to picking out, purchasing and eating food in public settings thanks to the sheer amount of anxiety that was inflicted on me as a child. The pitying, judgemental eyes glancing back at me as the lunch lady says I have too much food for the "free lunch". Or even worse, now that I picked out extra, I have to pay "normal lunch price" plus the extra fee that I tacked on because I had the audacity to want a little extra slop. There was a "premium" lunch and snack concession line in the cafeteria for all the "better" treats, drinks and a bunch of random things you could bring back to your table to share with your friends. Good luck trying to convince the people running the concession line that you're not scamming them by "pretending to have a free or reduced lunch" tag on your account. All because you wanted something a little sweeter to make the day easier.

    This was a high school cafeteria. I can't even understand how you could apply this way of thinking all the way down to the elementary schools. It's just heartless and I want to write something angry and edgy at the end of this sentence to justify the rage I feel.

    • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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      1 year ago

      That really seems like schniff pure ideology. Something I always appreciated about my cafeteria at a public (German) university was the attitude of the lunch ladies. They're not particularly nice, in fact they're kinda rude, but if you ask "can i have more potatoes/can i get more sauce" or whatever, they'll shovel more food on your plate with this "sure, whatever, i don't care" attitude.