How do autonomous anarcho-syndicalist union locals combine in one industry? What is federalism?
Autonomous anarcho-syndicalist unions combine in a single industry by means of anarchist federalism; that is, a type of federalism in which decision making power flows strictly from the bottom up. In statist forms of federalism, individual states grant certain powers to a federal government, which carries out certain duties and activities on behalf of the federated states. This is a top-down from, much different from that of the anarcho-syndicalist union. In the anarcho-syndicalist industrial federation, dicussion takes place in each of the local assemblies affiliated to that federation, and then decisions are made collectively on the basis of that full and frank diuscussion. Delegates are then appointed to communicate the discussions and decisions of each of those local assemblies to a meeting of delegates, which typically takes place at a federation congress. Here delegates carry out the mandate of their local assembly and attempt, where possible, to reach compromises with other dele
