This is an excerpt from the declarations of the American Continental Association of Workers IWA-AIT from 1929. It consists of the principles and tactics adopted by the constitutive organizations drawn from Latin America at that time, and is translated into English with an introduction by the translator, SN Nappalos.
Preface and Background by the translator
The Continental Workers' Association of the Americas is a continental organization of the IWA-AIT in the Americas that was convened by the FORA (Federacion Obrera Regional de Argentina, the argentine anarchist communist workers organization) before the dictatorship wave that was spreading across the Southern Cone suppressed the abilities of many such organizations to coordinate internationally. Beginning in 1920, the FORA rose the intention of such a coordination in its congress. It wasn’t until the middle of the decade that steps were taken in that direction. In 1925 the CGT (Confederacion General de Trabajadores, an anarchosyndicalist organization) of Mexico organized a first portion of the meetings in Panama, followed by a second part in Buenos Aires in 1927 organized by the FORA. Both were unable to cohere sufficient energy and momentum to organize such a large task. Later in 1927, the Federal Council and Secretary of International Relations of the FORA began preparations for the continental congress.
In May of 1929, the congress was organized and passed a document, which has been excerpted and translated into English perhaps for the first time below. Rudolph Rocker reported on the proceedings briefly in his text, Anarchosyndicalism: in theory and practice.