Building_Towards_the_Anarchist_Revolutio-2
By Phil Henderson
Anarchist politics are making a dramatic resurgence in Canada. Anarchist groups are
increasingly prominent at large protests across the country, from the G20 Summit in 2010 to this
past summer’s student protests in Quebec.1 In addition to these emergent trends, there has long
been an anarchist group active in Ontario. Common Cause was founded in September 2007, as a
federation of anarchists from “Hamilton, Toronto, Ottawa, Sudbury, Windsor and Kitchener-
Waterloo.”2 The goal of Common Cause is to “promote anarchist methods of organization” by
cooperating with working class people at the “crucial points” of struggle, and to ultimately foster
the public’s capacity for a “social revolution.”3 As a tool for promoting this agenda, Common
Cause created Linchpin, meant to be a bimonthly publication. It will, therefore, be the purpose
of this paper to provide an academic summary of Linchpin, through the perspective of anarcho-
syndicalism. In order to accomplish this, the main tenants of anarcho-syndicalism must first be
established
