Ideas and Action is an anarcho-syndicalist

Anarcho-syndicalism

Anarcho-syndicalism is a branch of anarchism which focuses on the labour movement. The word syndicalism comes from the French word syndicat which means trade union , from the Latin word syndicus which in turn comes from the Greek word σύνδικος which means caretaker of an issue...

 journal

Magazine

Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

 that was founded in 1981 as a result of numerous conferences organized by the New York Metropolitan area Libertarian Workers' Group

Libertarian Workers' Group

The Libertarian Workers Group was a United States New York City-based anarcho-syndicalist affinity group which was a member of the US Anarchist Communist Federation . The Libertarian Workers Group left the ACF in 1981, as did other affinity groups in Milwaukee, Toronto, Montreal among others.The...

 and the Syndicalist Alliance of Milwaukee. In 1984, the newly formed Workers Solidarity Alliance

Workers Solidarity Alliance

Workers Solidarity Alliance is a United States political activist group whose politics are rooted in anarcho-syndicalism and class struggle. WSA is not a trade union or proto-union....

took over publication of the journal.

Publication of Ideas and Action was suspended after issue #17 (1997). In 2010, an online version of the publication was launched and continues to publish new material.

External links

• The current ideas & action website
• Articles from Ideas and Action