Anarcho-syndicalism
Anarcho-syndicalism combines anarchist goals with syndicalist methods, using revolutionary unions to replace both capitalism and the state. Its best-known example is the Spanish CNT, which ran collectivised industry and agriculture in parts of Spain during the civil war.
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Organises through decentralised union federations instead of any state.
Union decisions are made through assemblies and recallable delegates.
Rejects state authority and policing.
Strongly internationalist, organised through the International Workers' Association.
Anti-militarist toward states, but formed militias during the Spanish Civil War.
Supports open borders and solidarity across ethnic lines.
Seeks collective ownership managed by workers' unions.
Opposes state planning; coordinates production through union federations.
No trade policy as such; aims for a borderless federated economy.
Strongly anticlerical in its Spanish heartland and secular in general.
Progressive, though its historical focus was primarily on class.
Generally accepts industrial technology under worker control.