workers control

Content about workers' control of production.

Assembly at the worker-run Zanon factory in Argentina

Assembly at the worker-run Zanon factory in Argentina

"Remember the Starving!" - 3 to 6 million died during the 1921-22 Russian famine

Beyond Kronstadt; the Bolsheviks in power - Mark Kosman

This article tries to go beyond the usual Kronstadt debate between Trotskyists and anarchists on why…

Worker co-operatives and democracy - Bernard Marszalek

Bernard Marszalek discusses the dynamics and contradictions of worker co-operatives under capitalism…

The anarchist collectives: workers' self-management in the Spanish revolution 1936-1939 - Sam Dolgoff

This was the first book in English that is devoted to the experiments in workers’…

Update from the Greek hospital under workers' control

The health workers who have occupied a hospital in Greece and placed it under workers control have…

General strike May 1st: Why?

Why do we need a general strike?

Greek hospital now under workers' control

Health workers in Kilkis, Greece, have occupied their local hospital and have issued a statement saying it is now fully 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…

Union shop billboard

The origins of the union shop - Tom Wetzel

Article about the practice and limitations of union (closed) shops in the US workers' movement in the 1930s and 40s. In particular it examines…

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.

Women march to Versailles during the French Revolution.

Is revolution back on the agenda? - Mark Kosman

Every attempt to go beyond capitalism has ended in failure. But are capitalism's present problems putting anti-capitalist revolution back on the…

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…

Un orchestre de cuivres ouvrier, Budapest 1956

HONGRIE 1956: «LE PROLETARIAT A L’ASSAUT DU CIEL» - Mouvement Communiste

The original French version of the Mouvement Communiste pamphlet on Hungary 56.