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Seven Theses on Workers’ Control

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  • Raniero Panzieri
These theses written in the context of the 1970s 'autonomia operaia' in Italy intend to initiate a debate on workers’ control of the factories as a 'democratic and peaceful' road to socialism.

Worker Management of the Barcelona Public Transit System, 1936-1939

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The history of worker management of Barcelona's transit system during the revolution and civil war is an illustration of the ability of workers to directly manage the industries where they work.

Occupation, worker co-operatives and the struggle for power: Britain in the 1970s

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Cooperatives and workers’ control in 20th century Greece

  • Αλέξανδρος Κιουπκιολής
  • Θοδωρής Καρυώτης
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Take back the factory: worker control in the current crisis

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The economic crisis that began in 2008 has put workers’ control and workplace democracy back on the agenda in the countries of the northern hemisphere.
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Topics

  • Commune
  • Cooperatives
  • Democratic Revolution
  • Direct Democracy
  • Gender & Feminism
  • Industrial Action
  • Industrial Democracy
  • Labour Process
  • Migration
  • Nationalization / Expropriation
  • Occupations
  • Political Parties & Workers Control
  • Recuperated Companies
  • Self-directed Enterprises
  • Social Struggles
  • Socially Useful Production
  • Solidarity Economy
  • State Enterprises
  • Trade Unionism
  • Worker Self-management
  • Workers' Control
  • Workers' Councils

Theorists

  • Antonio Gramsci
  • Antonio Negri
  • Jan Appel
  • Mario Tronti
  • Raniero Panzieri
  • Emma Goldman
  • Cornelius Castoriadis
  • Ken Coates & Tony Topham
  • Karl Korsch
  • Karl Liebknecht
  • Rosa Luxemburg
  • Ernest Mandel
  • Paul Mattick
  • Otto Rühle
  • Richard Müller
  • Anton Pannekoek
  • Leon Trotsky

Workers' control around the world

Asia

  • India
  • Indonesia

Australia & Oceania

  • Australia

Europe

  • Serbia
  • Basque Country
  • Belgium
  • Former Czechoslovakia
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Netherlands
  • Russia
  • Spain
  • Turkey
  • United Kingdom
  • Former Yugoslavia

Latin America

  • Argentina
  • Bolivia
  • Brazil
  • Chile
  • Mexico
  • Venezuela

North America

  • Canada
  • United States of America

Contemporary experiences of workers' control

  • Alcasa
  • Bauen
  • Bike Systems
  • Brukman
  • Dita
  • Efimerida ton Sintakton
  • FaSinPat
  • Fralib
  • IMPA
  • Kazova
  • Mondragon
  • New Era Windows
  • Officine Zero
  • Pilpa
  • Ri-Maflow
  • VIOME

Workers' control in history

1960-2000: Workers' Control against Capitalist Restructuring

  • May 1968

Early 20th Century: Workers' Councils and Workers' Control in Revolution

  • German Revolution 1918/1919
  • Russian Revolution
  • Biennio Rosso 1918-1921
  • Spanish Revolution 1936

Workers' Control in the 19th Century and before

  • Paris Commune 1871