The Syndicalist Revolution

How can we get Syndicalism as the major radical left-wing movement in the world, replacing Communism across the world? What effects would there be?
 
How can we get Syndicalism as the major radical left-wing movement in the world, replacing Communism across the world? What effects would there be?

The anarcho-syndalicist communes are constantly oppressed by people claiming to be the King of the Britons.
 
How can we get Syndicalism as the major radical left-wing movement in the world, replacing Communism across the world?

In real terms that means the failure of bolshevism and making syndicalism more succesful in a couple of countries. Notably in the english speaking world, not entirely implausiblen mind. It may require some earlier POD's a perhaps slightly greater successes of radicalism in the 19th century, which would in turn spark off a red scare of a somewhat different nature and make many major powers crack down on official unions. If for example the AFL and the TUC are reduced in stature and effectiveness radical unions and syndiclaism are going to have more appeal.
So you'd need a bigger IWW in the US and australia and other independent union federations and the British Empire would contain mass radical unions. With the german socialit party model looking isolated to germany and russia, bolshevism found it harder to garner support, a less powerful lenin trying to seize power comes a cropper and with his party falling apart around him and losing elections in evry soviet left right and centre is finally assasinated along with key members of the future politburo in a bomb plot by anarchists in early 1918 in revenge for the closing down of anarchist groups in moscow.
After that you can sort of decide how things pan out yourself really. What you'd probably have is big chunks of russia in the hands of various types of socialists and anarchists, and radical social movements spreading out across the US, Europe and the British Empire. Things would probably come a to a head in the wall street crash ten years later.
 
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