anarcho-syndicalism and students' unions

As the campus and classroom tends to be the fountain from whence current anarchistic and anarcho-syndicalist thought flows and where ideological conflict becomes most personally-involving, anarcho-syndicalism could have a natural investment in the proliferation and empowerment of students' unions.

Students could be reposited as knowledge workers, who both receive and dispense information and knowledge through various means and whose credentials (mostly useful to both capitalistic and socialistic societies) are determined by their reception and dispensation of knowledge and information. Student unions can be (and already posit themselves as) the vanguards for the rights of students to receive and dispense such knowledge by whatever means that are available to them, and can also furnish for the provision of enhancing, habilitating services for the students.

Davidson's syndicalism

Davidson of the SDS proposes the following ideas for student syndicalism:

• That the grade system be abolished (similar to how anarcho-syndicalists in the trade/labor unions argue for the abolition of the wage system)
• That excessively large classes be trimmed down to size in order to make the teacher and students more acclimated toward each other's needs.
• The formation of either in order to confront and counter the function and purpose of the student government as a parody of real governance:
  • a Campus Freedom Democratic Party - to be formed in the case that the student government has some degree of democracy (one student, one vote); also can take power in elections through a majority of seats and implement measures for students' rights.
  • a Free Student Union - to be formed in the case that the student government does not have any degree of democracy; meant strictly to agitate against the student government and the administration until they can set up a more democratic, student-oriented government