Tag Archives: workers councils

In solidarity with Vio.Me: An occupied, workers’ self-managed factory

Posted on March 16, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

VIOME IS IN DANGER! CALL TO ACTION DURING THE INTERNATIONAL WEEK OF SOLIDARITY #defendViome For a decade now, VIOME has been the only self-managed factory in Greece, where workers control the production process. It is a node in the ongoing … Continue reading →

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Italy: Autonomia (20) –  Porto Marghera: the last firebrands

Posted on February 24, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

We close our brief selection of texts dedicated to Italy’s operaismo and Autonomia returning to where in some sense it all began, amidst the workers of the country’s large industrial complexes and their struggles for dignity as workers, but struggles … Continue reading →

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Italy: Autonomia (6) – Raniero Panzieri

Posted on February 20, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

The question, long debated, of how to connect and harmonize demands and partial, immediate struggles, with general ends, is resolved precisely in affirming the continuity of struggles and of their nature. In effect this connection and this harmonization are impossible, and are … Continue reading →

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The long and winding May of 1968 (1): The Prague spring

Posted on April 1, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

May 1968 was not a franco-french, hexagonal affair.  It was a global event.  One would speak of it very differently if it had not resonated with, not only the occupied factories decked with red flags, but also with the Tet … Continue reading →

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A revolution remembered: Hungary 1956

Posted on October 31, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

Notre heritage n’est précédé d’aucun testament. René Char It is a strange and sad story that remains to be told and remembered. What the councils challenged was the party system as such, in all its forms, and this conflict was … Continue reading →

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