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Vesta

The blog for Vesta.

Vestas closed the UK's only wind turbine blade factories, on the Isle of Wight, in August 2009. Workers opposed the closure. This blog is a history of that dispute and of the ongoing campaign for green jobs.

http://savevestas.wordpress.com/

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Platform Cooperativism vs. the Sharing Economy

Trebor Scholz

Imagine that the algorithmic heart of the "Sharing Economy" could be cloned and brought back to life under a different model of ownership and work conditions, as a humane alternative to the market.

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.

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.

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

Alan Tuckman

Britain in the 1970s was a period of crisis and polarisation. Workplace closure led to resistance by workers, which defined the relations between capital and labour for subsequent decades.