Anarchists and syndicalists were centre stage in the history of labour
movements in much of 'Latin' Europe and in most of Latin America in the
first two decades of the twentieth century. Syndicalists and
libertarians sought to develop solidarity and workers' power, rejecting
both cautious and conservative trade-unionism and their allied socialist
parties.
Criticising the chauvinism that engulfed the Second International and
its most powerful section, German Social-Democracy, they campaigned for
class solidarity across frontiers and worked to subvert the discipline
that bound soldiers to imperialist states. The second part of this book
describes international and national campaigns against militarism and
war.