Communisation vs Spheres - Bernard Lyon
2011 text by Bernard Lyon, the second part of 'The Suspended Step of Communisation'.
"Occupying, Resisting, Producing" Argentine Workers Take Over Abandoned Factories - Andres Gaudin
A contemporary article on the then recent wave of factory occupations in Argentina follow the collapse of neo-liberal economy.
Interview with Cuadernos de Negación
English translation of a written interview with Argentinian communist group, Cuadernos de Negación (Negation Notebooks), discussing the recent history of the country's workers' movement, including the 1969 Cordobazo and the 2001 uprising, and prospectives for the future.
Horizontalism: Voices of popular power in Argentina - Marina Sitrin
Submitted by working class s... on Nov 27 2013 00:25
Horizontalism is an oral history of the exciting transformations taking place since the popular rebellion. It is a story of cooperation, vision, creation and discovery. It is a history told by people in the various autonomous social movements, from the occupied factories, neighborhood assemblies, arts and independent media collectives, to the indigenous communities and unemployed workers movements.
Worker Occupations in Argentina
A paper by Maurizio Atzeni looking at the degeneration of four co-operatives that arose during the upheavels in Argentina 2001.
The neighborhood is the new factory
An article by Liz Mason-Deese on the unemployed movement in Argentina since 2001.
From Crisis to Cooperatives: Lessons from Argentina’s Cartoneros
Submitted by Reddebrek on Sep 12 2012 22:31
A special Labor day (United States) documentary by Free Speech Radio News (FSRN) about the Argentine 2001 financial crisis and the rise of Cartoneros "Cardboard People" Cooperatives and the challenges they face.
No Future: the sinking of a country into oblivion
Many of you might evoke riots and clashes with the police if one were to utter the word Argentina, as well as recuperated factories ran by workers, popular assemblies, demonstrations, and alternatives against the banking system and politicians.
An account of setting up workplace assemblies
Submitted by Steven. on Nov 10 2006 17:29
A short account by Raul, a ceramics worker, of how workers won the right to hold mass assemblies in the factory during work time.
Zanon factory occupation - interview with workers
Submitted by Steven. on Nov 10 2006 10:07
An excellent set of interviews conducted with workers at the worker-run Zanon ceramics factory, occupied at the time of the Argentine uprising of 2001. It includes historical and background information.
