Update from the Greek hospital under workers' control
Submitted by working class s... on Feb 28 2012 00:58
The health workers who have occupied a hospital in Greece and placed it under workers control have issued a new statement regarding the occupation.
The following statement has been made by the health workers occupying the hospital.
Hello all,
Thank you so much for your interest and support.
General strike May 1st: Why?
Why do we need a general strike?
Two things are essential to the production of all goods; materials, such as machinery and land, and labour, or the effort of humans. In our society there are a number of ways to make a living.
Greek hospital now under workers' control
Submitted by working class s... on Feb 5 2012 19:20
Health workers in Kilkis, Greece, have occupied their local hospital and have issued a statement saying it is now fully under workers control.
The general hospital of Kilkis in Greece is now under workers control.
Podcast on workers' control with Immanuel Ness
A podcast on workers' control from Pacifica Radio's "Against the Grain" with Immanuel Ness, labour historian and author of 'Ours to Master and to Own: Workers' Control from the Commune to the Present'.
Wed 31.8.11| Workers' Control
Italy 1920: When 600,000 workers seized control of their workplaces
Tom Wetzel details the Italian Factory Occupations of 1920, which matured beyond conventional trade unionism and at its height involved about 600,000 workers. This article was originally presented as a talk at the Conference on Workers' Self-Organization in St. Louis in 1988.
During the month of September, 1920, a widespread occupation of Italian factories by their workforces took place, which originated in the auto factories, steel mills and machine tool plants of the metal sector but spread out into many other industries -- cotton mills and hosiery firms, lignite mines, tire factories, breweries and distilleries, and steamships and warehouses in the port towns.
Is revolution back on the agenda? - Mark Kosman
Submitted by ptar on Aug 8 2011 15:02
Every attempt to go beyond capitalism has ended in failure. But are capitalism's present problems putting anti-capitalist revolution back on the agenda?
To answer this question, this article looks at past revolutions, with emphasis on aspects rarely considered by the left. These include humanity's origins, gender and military history and the revolutionary transcendence of work and democracy.
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'We will take over!' Women march to Versailles during the French Revolution.
IS REVOLUTION BACK ON THE AGENDA? - Mark Kosman
Worker co-operatives, markets and the South African state
An evaluation of the realities faced by co-operatives operating in the market through an analysis of ‘worker control’ and ‘social ownership’ in the former Yugoslavian co-operatives, ‘degeneration of worker control’ in the Mondragon Co-operative Complex in Spain and the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality’s state sponsored co-operative development project in South Africa.
Introduction
HONGRIE 1956: «LE PROLETARIAT A L’ASSAUT DU CIEL» - Mouvement Communiste
The original French version of the Mouvement Communiste pamphlet on Hungary 56.
HONGRIE 1956: insurrection, conseils ouvriers, question militaire, «Le prolétariat à l’assaut du ciel»
PRESENTATION
Hungary '56: "the proletariat storming heaven" - Mouvement Communiste
Mouvement Communiste’s analysis of the Hungary ’56 workers’ uprising. Stresses the importance of the collective actions taken by workers at the point of production and critically examines the demands and programmes that they put forward.
Hungary 1956: “the proletariat storming heaven”
(full title: Hungary 1956: insurrection, workers’ councils, the military question, “the proletariat storming heaven”)
INTRODUCTION
Workers against work in the Spanish Revolution - Michael Seidman
Submitted by sdrg45 on Jun 26 2011 14:50
The achievements of anarchist ‘self-management’ during the Spanish Civil War show that production can be organised without the bourgeoisie or Leninist parties. But any genuinely anti-capitalist revolution in the 21st century will not be about democratic self-management of capitalist industry. Rather, it will be about the transformation of society world-wide so people can collectively fulfill their needs without any external discipline. Consequently, we need to understand workers’ resistance to work during the Spanish revolution rather than to just praise the achievements of anarchist militants (especially when those ‘achievements’ even included the setting up of labour camps!).
Michael Seidman’s Workers against Work: Labor in Paris and Barcelona during the Popular Fronts is a 'must-read' for anyone who wants to learn from the disastrous outcomes of the revolutions of the 20th century. Here are some extracts:
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