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An examination of the worker cooperative as an example of a labour commons. The authors suggest that the radical potential of co-ops can be extended by connecting with other commons struggles.

What if the workers were in control?

Hilary Wainwright

Hilary Wainwright reflects on an attempt by British workers to produce a democratically determined alternative plan for their industry.

Marx’s Critique of Socialist Labor-Money Schemes and the Myth of Council Communism’s Proudhonism

David Adam

Dismantling the myth that the council communist tradition actually advocated a self-managed capitalist economy, rather than a truly communist one.

Spectrum, Trajectory and the Role of the State in Workers’ Self-Management

Workers’ self-management is associated with times of social transformation. The state may chose to either restrict self-management or facilitate it so the conflict is institutionalised and contained.