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The Anarchist Collectives: Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-1939
Dolgoff, Sam
Book
1974
Examines the experiments in workers' self-management, both urban and rural, which took place in Spain during the revolution and Civil War.
Democracy in the Workplace: Readings on the Implementation of Self Management In America
Book
1977
A how-to for groups beginning a participatory business. Covers structural, organizational, legal and financial matters. A brief section on decision making.
A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
Bottomore, Tom
Book
1983
From Self-managed Solidarity Unionism to a Self-managed Society
Wetzel, Tom
Article
2009
Capitalism is built on various forms of oppression and structural inequality. But the subordination and exploitation of the working class remains at the heart of the system. A liberatory program and s...
From Wildcat Strike to Total Self Management
Vaneigem, Raoul [Ratgeb]
Article
1974
Vaneigem’s book is one of the few texts that seriously consider the problems and possibilities of a postrevolutionary society.
Libertarian Socialism
McLaughlin, Tom
Article
1977
There must be a revolt against bureaucracy - the predominant trend of societal organization.
The Meaning of Socialism
Cardan, Paul (Cornelius Castoriadis)
Article
1961
Paul Cardan's 1961 discussion of modern conceptions of socialism, and the future of socialist movements.
No Bosses Here!: A Manual on Working Collectively and Cooperatively
Brandow, Karen; McDonnell, Jim;
Book
1981
A perceptive and practical guide to working in a collective.
On Spontaneity and Organisation
Bookchin, Murray
Article
1971
On the relationship of spontaneity and revolution.
Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the twenty-first century
Spannos, Chris (ed.)
Book
2008
Real Utopia identifies and obliterates the barriers to an egalitarian, bottom-up society, while convincingly outlining how to build it.
The Right to be Greedy: Theses On The Practical Necessity Of Demanding Everything
For Ourselves, Council for Generalized Self-Management
Book
1974
A Self-management Approach to Housing
Wetzel, Tom
Article
2002
Community land trusts (CLTs) have been formed in a number of communities in the USA in response to either disinvestment or gentrification. The CLT acquires land to take it permanently off the market a...
Situationist International Anthology
Knabb, Ken
Book
1981
A selection of Situationist writings.
Social Anarchism, Individualist Anarchism, the State and Leninism: A Reply to the International Socialist Organization
Wetzel, Tom
Article
2009
I take it that social or Left-anarchism and libertarian socialism are the same thing. Both stand opposed to Leninism, and both stand opposed to individualist anarchism.
Socialism Democracy and Self-Management: Political Essays
Raptis, Michel
Book
1980
Essays by a long-time leader of the Trotskyist Fourth International on topics such as direct democracy and self-management.
Socialist Register 1991: Volume 27: Communist Regimes the Aftermath
Miliband, Ralph; Panitch, Leo (eds.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1991
Solidarity Economies: A Guerrilla War against Capitalism: An Interview with Nicolás Cruz Tineo
Bell, Beverly; Hsu, Jessica
Article
2014
Capitalism is based on the philosophy that man is inherently evil and selfish. But solidarity economies suggest something different: that we are human, we cooperate with one another, we love, we strug...
Total Self-Management: Chapter 3 of Raoul Vaneigem's book From Wildcat Strike to Total Self-Management
Vaneigem, Raoul
Article
1974
Vaneigem's book is one of the few texts that seriously consider the problems and possibilities of a postrevolutionary society.
Towards a Decentralist Commonwealth
Alperovitz, Gar
Article
1979
Could the basic structural concept of common ownership of society's resources for the benefit of all ever be achieved, institutionally, in ways which fostered and sustained, rather than eroded and des...
When the Prisoners Ran Walpole: A true story in the movement for prison abolition
Bissonette, Jamie
Book
2008
In the months before they took over running the Walople maximum-security facility in 1973, prisoners and outside advocates created programs that sent more prisoners home for good. This account reveals...
Work and New Technologies: Other Perspectives (Volume 3)
DeBresson, Chris; Lowe Benston, Margaret; Vorst, Jesse
Book
1987
Essays covering health hazards, labour concerns, and issues of deskilling related to new technologies in the workplace.
Workers' Councils and the Economics of a Self-Managed Society
Cardan, Paul (Cornelius Castoriadis) (Pierre Chalieu)
Book
1957
A translation of an essay, "Sur le Contenu du Socialisme," written by Cornelius Castoriadis under the pseudonym "Peirre Chalieu," and originally published in the journal Socialisme out Barbarie in 195...
Workers' Liberation and Institutions of Self-management
Wetzel, Tom
Article
2006
Power can't be "abolished" any more than gravity can be. Rather, building a self-managing society means a shift from hierarchical structures that concentrate power at the top to new structures through...
Workers' Self-Management in the United States
Gunn, Christopher Eaton
Book
1984
Workers' self-management: Connexipedia Article
Article
A form of workplace in which workers themselves make the decisions.

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Bureau of Public Secrets
Articles from a Situationist perspective.
Marxists Internet Archive
Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
Red Menace, The
The online archive of the libertarian socialist newsletter The Red Menace. Articles on socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, h...
Tom Wetzel's home page
Wetzel's writing spans a range of topics... from libertarian socialism, anarcho-syndicalism and workers' self-management to unionism, social housing, environmental justice, philosophy, and Los Angeles...

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Ideas and Action
Periodical profile published 1981
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1981
Archive of some articles published in Ideas and Action, a radical paper published by the Workers Solidarity Alliance from 1981 to 1997.
Marxists Internet Archive
Website
Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.