Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation 40th Anniversary
The genesis of the ASF can be traced back to the founding of the ‘Sydney Anarchist Group’ in 1956 by anarchist exiles from Bulgaria, former members of the Bulgarian Section of the IWA, CNT-B along with others in Sydney sympathetic to anarchism. Two of those involved, Georg Hristov and Alex Boneff, would be founding members of the ASF in 1986. Members of the Sydney Anarchist Group distributed a leaflet at the 1959 May Day march organised by the NSW Trades and Labour Council called ‘Anarcho-Syndicalism’. An official of the NSWTLC gave a copy of the leaflet to the NSW Police and told them there were ‘anarchists among the crowd”.







