A workers' council is a deliberative assembly, composed of working class members, intended to institute workers' self-management or workers' control. Unlike a trade union, in a workers' council the workers are assumed to be in actual control of the workplace, rather than merely negotiating with employers through collective bargaining. They are a form of "workplace democracy." A deliberative assembly is an organization, comprised of members, that uses a parliamentary procedure for making decisions. ... The term working class is used to denote a social class. ... Poster for the Movimiento Nacional de Empresas Recuperadas (MNER), at a worker-recovered print shop, Chilavert Artes Gráficas in Buenos Aires, Argentina Worker self-management (or autogestion) is a form of workplace decision-making in which the employees themselves agree on choices (for issues like customer care, general production... Workers control is participation in the management of factories and other enterprises by the people who work there. ... The Lawrence textile strike (1912), with soldiers surrounding peaceful demonstrators A trade union or labor union is an organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in key areas such as wages, hours, and working conditions, forming a cartel of labour. ... A Collective agreement is a labor contract between an employer and one or more unions. ... Workplace democracy is the application of democracy in all its forms (including voting systems, debates, democratic structuring, due process, adversarial process, systems of appeal, and so on) to the workplace. ...

Workers' councils have arisen repeatedly through modern history with a variety of names. Notable instances include Russia in 1905 and 1917, where the councils were called "soviets," Germany during 1918 (Räte), Turin, Italy during 1919-1920, China during 1926-1927, Spain during 1936, Hungary during 1956, France during 1968, Chile in 1973 (cordones), Iran during 1978-1979 (shoras^[1]), and from at the latest 2002 to the present in Venezuela^[2]. For other uses, see History (disambiguation). ... A soviet (Russian: , IPA: , council[1]) originally was a workers local council in late Imperial Russia. ... “November Revolution” redirects here. ... Torino redirects here. ... Year 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... Year 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 412 Incident was a large-scale purge to Communists in the Chinese Nationalist Party in Shanghai, which was ordered by Chiang Kai-shek, occured on 12 April 1927 during the Northern Expedition. ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hungarians investigate a disabled Soviet tank in Budapest The 1956 Hungarian Revolution, also known as the Hungarian Uprising, was a popular revolt against Soviet influence and control in Hungary. ... A car from 1956 Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... May 1968 poster: Be young and shut up. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ... Shura is an Arabic word for consultation. It is believed to be the method by which pre-Islamic Arabian tribes selected leaders and made major decisions. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ...

The key features of a workers' council include the phenomenon that a single place of work, such as a factory, school, or farm, is controlled collectively by the workers of that workplace. Basically an elected group of workers from that workplace function as the manager. Therefore, management reflects employee values and goals. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Students in Rome, Italy. ... For other uses, see Farm (disambiguation). ... he is the best in the world, some call him the junior jose, special 1 version 2 ...

Councils operate on the principle of recallable delegates. This means that elected delegates may be recalled at any time through a vote in a form of impeachment. For delegates in the . ... Depiction of the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson, then President of the United States, in 1868. ...

Workers' councils combine to elect higher bodies for coordinating between one another. This means that the upper councils are not superior to the lower councils, but are instead built from and operated by them. The national council would therefore have delegates from every city in the country. Their nature means that workers' councils do away with traditional centralized governments and instead give the power directly to the people. This type of democratic order is called council democracy. For the Soviet republics of the Soviet Union, see Republics of the Soviet Union. ...

Some Marxists and anarchists believe that workers' councils (communes) embody the fundamental principles of socialism, such as workers' control over production and distribution. Indeed, some have described this as "socialism from below," which they counterpose against what they see as "socialism from above" endorsed by social democratic ideology and Stalinism or (in the anarchist view) Leninism. According to this view, socialism from above is carried out by a centralized state run by an elite bureaucratic apparatus, whereas socialism from below represents the self-administration and self-rule of the working class. Marxism is both the theory and the political practice (that is, the praxis) derived from the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. ... Anarchists can refer to several things, among which: The movie Anarchists Supporters of the principles of anarchism The Anarchists (Les Anarchistes), a famous song from Léo Ferré A List of anarchists This is a disambiguation page—a list of articles associated with the same title. ... In Marxist theory, the commune is a form of political organization adopted during the first phase of communism. ... Socialism refers to the goal of a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to control by the community. ... Social democracy is a political ideology emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from supporters of Marxism who believed that the transition to a socialist society could be achieved through democratic evolutionary rather than revolutionary means. ... For architecture, see Stalinist architecture. ... Vladimir Lenin in 1920 Leninism refers to various related political and economic theories elaborated by Bolshevik revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin, and by other theorists who claim to be carrying on Lenins work. ...

Some Left-Marxists (particularly council communists) and anarchists support a council-based society; believing that only the workers themselves can spark the revolution and so workers' councils will be the foundation of the revolution. There are also Leninists (for example the International Socialist Tendency and its offshoots) who advocate a council-based society^[3], but maintain that workers' councils cannot carry out a revolution without the leadership of a vanguard party^[4]. Council communism is a Radical Left movement originating in Germany and the Netherlands in the 1920s. ... Vladimir Lenin in 1920 Leninism refers to various related political and economic theories elaborated by Bolshevik revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin, and by other theorists who claim to be carrying on Lenins work. ... The International Socialist Tendency is an international grouping of organisations around the ideas of Tony Cliff, founder of the Socialist Workers Party in the UK. It has sections across the world, however its strongest presence is in Europe, especially in the UK, Greece and Ireland. ... A vanguard party is a political party or grassroot organization at the forefront of a mass action, movement, or revolution. ...

See also

• Co-determination
• De Leonism
• Factory committee
• Industrial democracy
• Industrial Workers of the World
• Libertarian socialism
• Socialist Party USA
• Luxemburgism
• Paris Commune
• Solidarity (UK)
• Council democracy
• Syndicalism
• Works council

Co-determination (also: codetermination) is a practice whereby the employees have a role in management of a company. ... Developed by Daniel De Leon, Marxism_Deleonism is a form of Marxism. ... Some factual claims in this article need to be verified. ... Industrial Democracy is an economic arrangement which involves workers making decisions, sharing responsibility and authority in the workplace. ... The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is an international union currently headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. At its peak in 1923 the organization claimed some 100,000 members in good standing, and could marshal the support of perhaps 300,000 workers. ... Libertarian socialism is a group of political philosophies that aim to create a society without political, economic or social hierarchies - a society in which all violent or coercive institutions would be dissolved, and in their place every person would have free, equal access to tools of information and production, or... The Socialist Party USA (SP USA) is one of the heirs to the Socialist Party of America of Eugene V. Debs and Norman Thomas. ... Luxemburgism (also written Luxembourgism) is a specific revolutionary theory within communism, based on the writings of Rosa Luxemburg. ... Le Père Duchesne looking at the statue of Napoleon I on top of the Vendome column: Eh ben ! bougre de canaille, on va donc te foutre en bas comme ta crapule de neveu !… (Well now! buggering rascal, we will knock you the fuck off just like your crook of... Solidarity was a small libertarian socialist organisation and magazine of the same name in the United Kingdom. ... For the Soviet republics of the Soviet Union, see Republics of the Soviet Union. ... Syndicalism refers to a set of ideas, movements, and tendencies which share the avowed aim of transforming capitalist society through action by the working class on the industrial front. ... A works council is a shop-floor organization representing workers, which functions as local/firm-level complement to national labour negotiations. ...

References

1. ^ Poya, Maryam [1987] (2002). "IRAN 1979: Long live the Revolution! ... Long Live Islam?", in Colin Barker: Revolutionary Rehearsals. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 143-9. ISBN 1-931859-02-7. 
2. ^ Venezuela’s Co-Managed Inveval: Surviving in a Sea of Capitalism
3. ^ Molyneux, John [1987] (2003). The Future Socialist Society. Haymarket Books, 5-6.  "... the core institutions of the new state will be ... the network of workers' councils."
4. ^ Molyneux, John [1978] (2003). Marxism and the Party. Haymarket Books, 79.  "Only with the growth of the Bolsheviks into a mass party and with the emergence of a Bolshevik majority in the soviets were these embryos of workers' state power able to fulfil their potentiality."

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External links

• Workers' Councils: The historically discovered form of the dictatorship of the proletariat