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Topics

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  • Democratic Revolution
  • Direct Democracy
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  • Industrial Democracy
  • Labour Process
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  • 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

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Australia & Oceania

  • Australia

Europe

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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