noun
- people who support syndicalism, a political movement advocating worker control of industry through labor unions
Usage: political theory
Examples
- The syndicalists organized strikes to demand worker ownership of factories.
- French syndicalists played a major role in early 20th-century labor movements.
- The syndicalists believed that unions should control production directly.
- Many syndicalists opposed both capitalism and state socialism.
- The syndicalists called for a general strike to transform society.
- Revolutionary syndicalists sought to overthrow the existing economic system.