workplace activity
Articles, interviews and accounts about organising at work, problems people have come up against and lessons they have learned.
"Possibilities are found in the struggle outside the unions" - Interview with Kämpa tillsammans
Interview with Swedish communist group Kämpa tillsammans about "faceless resistance" and workplace organisation.
M: What is Kämpa tillsammans?
KT: We call ourselves a writing collective, where we have discussions together and a collective signature. What we are occupied with is class struggle theory.
M: What made you start the group?
Hamburgers vs value - Kämpa Tillsammans
Article by Swedish communist group Kämpa Tillsammans, examining the relationship between informal workplace activity in a hamburger restaurant, and the broader communist movement.
By Marcel, member of the communist group Kämpa Tillsammans! 1
- 1. Kämpa Tillsammans! means "Struggle together!" and shall be understood as an imperative.
Proletarian management: Informal workplace organization - Kämpa Tillsammans
Interesting article about informal workplace organising, management tactics and suggestions for workers to build power on the job.
The emancipation of the working class can not only be conquered by the working class themselves but the emancipating practices of the working class are its own making too.
Notes on working at a sixth form college library, London 2005-2007
Between 2005-2007 a member of the libcom group worked term-time in the library at a Sixth Form College in London. This article/interview documents his attempts to organise his workplace and touches on some wider issues around working in education in the UK.
So where did you work? What was it like?
Since some of my friends are still working there, and I hope there is still some organising going on, I won't identify the college directly, but some background information would be useful.
Notes on an ongoing workplace struggle - Sphinx
An article by Sphinx addressing workplace activity and the potential for organising disparate individuals in a Japanese workplace. The article is distinguished by its acceptance of, and engagement with, real world conditions, and yet is able to maintain a light and transcendent tone. It is also articulates the necessity for workers to establish their own goals.
Interview with an electronics worker in Romania, 2005
Summary of a chat with a young guy who works for Solectron electronics in Timisoara, Romania, Summer 2004
About the international free trade zones in Romania
There used to be six free trade zones in Romania, where foreign investors were supposed to invest in low tax paradises. Today only one zone remains
http://freezone.arad.ro.
About Solectron
Lessons of MWR - Interview with former McDonalds Workers Resistance member, 2006
libcom.org interviews one of the founder members of the workplace group McDonalds Workers Resistance about the experiences and lessons learned from one of the UK's most important recent attempts at libertarian organisation.
So, who are you?
The proletarian formerly known as Funnywump.
Briefly, what was McDonald’s Workers Resistance?
Irish stew: Experiences of a waitress in Germany, 2002
This was written to share the experience of one waitress with others. We often work in small places for short times, but if we all stand together we have a chance to fight back against the crap we get at work. This starts with sharing what is going on...
An account of setting up workplace assemblies
A short account by Raul, a ceramics worker, of how workers won the right to hold mass assemblies in the factory during work time.
His factory was Zanon in Argentina, made famous when workers later occupied it in 2001 and began running it themselves.
Hunterston nuclear power stations strike update
2nd day of our 7th week in dispute with BK.
Wednesday’s action continued in a positive manner, at least in our eyes. Harrassment from British Energy on its own employees continued. Why they put up with it we are not entirely sure. We witnessed people noting fellow employees registration numbers, no doubt to gain favour with their own management. What kind of people do this?
