syndicalist
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- noun
- /ˈsɪndɪkəlɪst/
- syndicalist believes that workers should control their own industries through unions.
- Italian syndicalists
- anarcho-syndicalist
- syndicalist and socialist
Examples
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In Bolivia, the anarcho-syndicalist and socialist tin miners and intellectuals identified the Catholic Church with established economic and political elites.
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Niebuhr and Bennett supported a blend of syndicalist and nationalization programs until they gave up on socialism.
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So who are these syndicalists and what do they want?
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28 As Golden puts it, "the community dog wagged the syndicalist tail more often than the reverse."
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We must combat the syndicalist deviation that will kill the Party if it is not completely cured of it.
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But not all Italian-American syndicalists were so optimistic.
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We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune.
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For Italian syndicalists and radicals like Rafanelli, Lawrence was an inspiration and an exemplar.
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Socialists, syndicalists, and anarchists fought bitterly amongst each other, often drawing on memories of internecine combat in Italy.
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Thus, the Lawrence strike served not only to highlight and fortify Italian-American syndicalists' connections to their homeland; it also drew certain of them firmly into the American labor movement.
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
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A person who supports workers and their unions
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Etymology
The word syndicalist comes from French syndicat, which means a workers' 'union', and from the Greek part syn- meaning 'together'. So a syndicalist is someone who wants workers, acting 'together', to control and run their workplaces.