workplace activity

Workers' accounts and experiences of organising in their workplaces.

May Hai factory staff is in working hours. © ILO

May Hai factory staff is in working hours. © ILO

The Lordstown struggle and the real crisis in production - Ken Weller

Fascinating pamphlet by Solidarity on the informal workers struggle against the frenetic pace of…

"Possibilities are found in the struggle outside the unions" - Interview with Kämpa tillsammans

Interview with Swedish communist group Kämpa tillsammans about "faceless resistance…

Proletarian management: Informal workplace organization - Kämpa Tillsammans

Interesting article about informal workplace organising, management tactics and suggestions for…

A London college library

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…

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.

Romanian Selectron plant

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…

The Glasgow MWR group in 2000

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…

Irish stew: Experiences of a waitress in Germany, 2002

Making the most of spontaneous rebellions at work

Advice on how to react when a big issue immediately angers a large number of people at your workplace, in order to try to organise effective…

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.

Hunterston nuclear power stations strike update

2nd day of our 7th week in dispute with BK.

Organising your workplace: getting started

You're working, or just started work somewhere where there is no active collective workers' organisation. What can you do to get organised? This…