workers councils
Workers' councils are bodies in a given locale (containing a mix of workers, peasants and soldiers depending on where they are) which are formed when large numbers of workers come together to defend their own interests against capital.
Workers Councils - Anton Pannekoek
Anton Pannekoek describes how workers councils have been and can be organs of self-organised working class power in struggle - and a means towards overthrowing capitalism and creating a classless society.
Workers Councils (1936) - Anton Pannekoek
Revolutionary Workers Councils as organs of working class self-emancipation.
This article was first published in English in the American journal International Council Correspondence (Vol. II No. 5 April 1936).
Paul Mattick Interview by J.J. Lebel
This interview was given in February 1975. It was never published. Initially it was aimed to be part of a radio programme on workers' councils which never went on the air. A French translation was added to the second French edition of Workers' Councils (Spartacus, November 1982). Reprinted from Vol. 4 "Workers Councils" -- Anton Pannekoek (ECHANGES), where it appeared as an appendix.
Fundamental principles of communist production and distribution
Full text of Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution, Collective work of the Group of International Communists of Holland (GIK), 1930
Class Composition and the Theory of the Party at the Origins of the Workers' Council Movement
CLASS COMPOSITION AND THE THEORY OF THE PARTY AT THE ORIGINS OF THE WORKERS' COUNCIL MOVEMENT
Sergio Bologna
