Worker’s Control – Green Social Thought

A Green New Deal Vs. Revolutionary Ecosocialism

Tue, 19 Mar 2019 14:24:22 +0000

by Wayne Price

The idea of a “Green New Deal” has been raised in response to the threat of climate and ecological catastrophe. Two such proposals are analyzed here and counter-posed to the program of revolutionary libertarian ecosocialism.

According to the climate scientists, industrial civilization has at most a dozen years until global warming is irreversible. This will cause (and is already causing) extremes of weather, accelerating extermination of species, droughts and floods, loss of useable water, vast storms, rising sea levels which will destroy islands and coastal cities, raging wildfires, loss of crops, and, overall, environmental conditions in which neither humans nor other organisms evolved to exist.

The solidarity ecosystems of occupied factories

Sat, 11 Mar 2017 15:18:32 +0000

by Liam Barrington-Bush

At first glance it is a factory: heavy machinery, crates, palettes, industrial barrels and men doing manual labor. Little catches the eye, except maybe the homemade banners hanging up around the warehouse. They’re in Greek, so you might not be able to read them, but you can tell these are not the stock decorations from the ‘IKEA industrial chic’ catalog.

Over a couple of days, you might also notice that you’re unlikely to see those men doing the same specific jobs, day after day, as you would in most factories. They seem to rotate their roles, mixing up batches of soap, pouring them into frames and cutting it into bars, but also cleaning toilets, taking product orders and coordinating distribution.

Workers’ Control in the Crisis of Capitalism

Sat, 03 Sep 2016 15:46:56 +0000

by Dario Azzellini

Dario Azzelini examines the increasing turn to worker's control in response to the ongoing crisis of capitalism.