workers control

The history of the residents in one of Rome's outlying ghettos who had inadequate health care provision. Seizing a government building, they and sympathetic health workers set up their own medical centre and ran it collectively.

A brief history of the Italian Biennio Rosso (two red years) and the mass factory occupations of…

A general strike of 100,000 workers, which saw the city shut down and all essential services provided under workers' control.

The history of the January-February 1990 tramways dispute in Melbourne, Australia which saw…

If this story sounds vaguely familiar, it may be because Labourstart ran a campaign last year in support of workers in Argentina who, faced with a mismanaged business about to close decided to take matters into their own hands.

Detailed account of worker-controlled agriculture, industry and public services in revolutionary Spain during the civil war.

The workers of the San Justo glassworks in Buenos Aires never thought about owning their company, until it went bankrupt four years ago.

Interesting article by Deirdre Hogan about the collectivisation and worker control of industry in…

An account of the workings of rural agricultural collectives in Aragon, revolutionary Spain, 1936-39

Michael Seidman on the farming collectives during the Spanish revolution.

William G. Rosenberg analyses the relationship between the working class and the Bolsheviks between…

Situationist Raoul Vaneigem on self-management and workers' control. From Internationale Situationniste #12 (September 1969).