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  1. The Anarchist Collectives
    Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-1939
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    Examines the experiments in workers' self-management, both urban and rural, which took place in Spain during the revolution and Civil War.
  2. Communism and Self-Management
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A look at workers' self-management in past regimes and their relevance to current debates.
  3. Democracy in the Workplace: Readings on the Implementation of Self Management In America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    A how-to for groups beginning a participatory business. Covers structural, organizational, legal and financial matters. A brief section on decision making.
  4. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  5. Economic Power Struggle In The USSR
    Soviet Workers Press For Self-Management
    Resource Type: Article
  6. Frequently Asked Questions about Workers Solidarity Alliance
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
  7. From Self-managed Solidarity Unionism to a Self-managed Society 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 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 strategy for a remake of society needs to explain how workers can escape the class cage.
  8. From Wildcat Strike to Total Self Management
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1974
    Vaneigem’s book is one of the few texts that seriously consider the problems and possibilities of a postrevolutionary society.
  9. Ideas and Action
    Periodical profile published 1981
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    Archive of some articles published in Ideas and Action, a radical paper published by the Workers Solidarity Alliance from 1981 to 1997.
  10. Libertarian Socialism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    There must be a revolt against bureaucracy - the predominant trend of societal organization.
  11. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
  12. The Meaning of Socialism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1961   Published: 1969
    Paul Cardan's 1961 discussion of modern conceptions of socialism, and the future of socialist movements.
  13. No Bosses Here!
    A Manual on Working Collectively and Cooperatively
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981
    A perceptive and practical guide to working in a collective.
  14. On Spontaneity and Organisation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1971   Published: 1975
    On the relationship of spontaneity and revolution.
  15. Real Utopia 
    Participatory Society for the twenty-first century
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Real Utopia identifies and obliterates the barriers to an egalitarian, bottom-up society, while convincingly outlining how to build it.
  16. The Right to be Greedy
    Theses On The Practical Necessity Of Demanding Everything
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
  17. A Self-management Approach to Housing
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 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 and make it available for the use of the community. As a democratic organization, the CLT is intended to empower the community in determining what is done with land in that area. The CLT may rehab existing buildings, build new houses or apartment buildings, or do other types of development work.
  18. Situationist International Anthology 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2006
    A selection of Situationist writings.
  19. Social Anarchism, Individualist Anarchism, the State and Leninism
    A Reply to the International Socialist Organization
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 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.
  20. Socialism Democracy and Self-Management
    Political Essays
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
    Essays by a long-time leader of the Trotskyist Fourth International on topics such as direct democracy and self-management.
  21. Socialist Register 1991
    Volume 27: Communist Regimes the Aftermath
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
  22. Solidarity Economies: A Guerrilla War against Capitalism
    An Interview with Nicolás Cruz Tineo
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 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 struggle for the love of humanity, and that the future of our planet, our life, is based on our having a culture of brotherhood, sisterhood, collaboration, cooperation. It is an economy of love.
  23. Total Self-Management
    Chapter 3 of Raoul Vaneigem's book From Wildcat Strike to Total Self-Management
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1974
    Vaneigem's book is one of the few texts that seriously consider the problems and possibilities of a postrevolutionary society.
  24. Towards a Decentralist Commonwealth
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 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 destroyed, a cooperative democratic society?
  25. When the Prisoners Ran Walpole 
    A true story in the movement for prison abolition
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 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 what can happen when there is public will for change and trust that the incarcerated can achieve it.
  26. Work and New Technologies
    Other Perspectives (Volume 3)
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Essays covering health hazards, labour concerns, and issues of deskilling related to new technologies in the workplace.
  27. Workers' Councils and the Economics of a Self-Managed Society
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1957   Published: 1974
    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 1957. Castoriadis writes that "the experience of bureaucratic capitalism allows us clearly to perceive what socialims is not and cannot be. A close look both a past proletarian uprising and at the everyday life and struggles of the working class - both East and West -- enables us to posit what socialism could be and should be."
  28. Workers' Liberation and Institutions of Self-management
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 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 which the mass of the people collectively exercise the power to control their work and the society as a whole.
  29. Workers' Self-Management in the United States
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
  30. Workers' self-management
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A form of workplace in which workers themselves make the decisions.
  31. Workplace Democracy
    A Guide to Workplace Ownership, Participation, and Self-Management Experiments in the US and Europe
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978

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