Henri Simon

An archive of texts and documents by and about Henri Simon (1922-) council communist, founder of Echanges et Mouvement, former member of Socialisme ou Barbarie and Informations et Correspondances Ouvrières.

a photo of Henri Simon, sitting in front of a bookshelf

Socialism: defensive reflex or conscious creation? - Solidarity

Solidarity's response to Henri Simon's 1974 text "The New Movement".

Cover of Winter 86-87 - just text

France Winter 1986-87: The Railways Strike - Henri Simon

A text on autonomous struggles published by Echanges et Mouvement.

just the title typed in black on a red/orange background

Shake It And Break It: Class and politics in Britain 1979/1989

Two texts published by Echanges et Mouvement in 1990: "The Myths of Thatcherism" by David Brown and …

Headlines "East and West - Against Oppression", "And the Bomb is still with us!"

Direct Action (SWF): Vol 9 #04 (82) April 1968

Direct Action April 1968, including: workers and the Common Market by Henri Simon, upsurge in Eastern Europe, South Shields dustmen strike, etc.

Sociologie du travail

Les motivations de l'absentéisme

Henri Simon writing in the July-September 1978 issue of Sociologie du travail on tendencies toward the resistance and refusal of work within…

The New Movement cover

The New Movement - Henri Simon

Solidarity pamphlet 51, published 1976.

153 French workers find a way to make themselves heard - Henri Simon (trans. Loren Goldner)

The following is the translation of a drastic abridgement/summary of a much longer…

Echanges: bulletin of the network Echanges et Mouvement, (1975–1996)

This is a collection of the English-language issues of the review Echanges from 1975-1996.

Workers’ Inquiry in Socialisme ou Barbarie

Henri Simon's account of Socialisme ou Barbarie and its 'worker's papers'.

"To delightful measures changed...": reflections on the 1978-79 Winter of Discontent

An analysis of a major 1970s highpoint of class struggle in the UK; its character, implications and…

Poland 1980-1982: Class struggle and the crisis of capital - Henri Simon

Henri Simon's brilliant and detailed account and analysis of the militant working class struggles in…

Cover

Myths of Dispersed Fordism - Echanges et Mouvement

Still-relevant debate from the early 1990s between Echanges et Mouvement and the Spanish journal Etcetera on the effects of post-Fordism on class…