Excerpts from the 1937 pamphlet ‘Anarcho-syndicalism and anarchism’ by then-secretary of the International Workers Association (IWA) Pierre Besnard (1886-1947).
The following excerpts, translated by Paul Sharkey and appearing in English for the first time, are taken from Pierre Besnard’s address to the June 1937 Paris Congress of the anarcho-syndicalist International Workers’ Association (IWA), L’Anarcho-Syndicalisme et l’Anarchisme, Rapport de Pierre Besnard, Secretaire de l’A.I.T. au Congrès Anarchiste International de 1937 (dated 30 May 1937; republished as a supplement to le Monde Libertaire, 1963), for which Alexander Schapiro wrote the (previously posted) introduction.
Anarcho-Syndicalism and Anarchism- Alexander Schapiro Pierre Besnard 