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  1. A Big Victory for Labor in Mexico
    How Mexican Workers Won Ownership of a Tire Plant with Three-Year Strike

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Collective ownership of a factory in Mexico.
  2. Flint Sit-Down Strike
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Changed the United Automobile Workers from a collection of isolated locals on the fringes of the industry into a major union and led to the unionization of the United States automobile industry.
  3. Obsolete Communism
    The Left-Wing Alternative

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    An account of the May 1968 uprising in Paris, positing a left radical alternative to the encrusted beliefs of the old left and the right. A comment on power, on bureaucracy, and on the paths to liberation.
  4. The occupation of the factories: Italy 1920 - Paolo Spriano
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    The story of the mass wave of strikes and factory occupations which swept Italy 1920-21 told from the documents and accounts of the time. Written in 1964 and translated into English in 1975 by Gwyn A Williams, who also wrote the introduction.
  5. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 19, 2015
    Utopia

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    Utopian visions, be they practical or not, free our imaginations, if only for a little while, from the daily grind of struggle and worry, and allow us to dream about the kind of world we would hope to live in. Such dreams can inspire us and guide us, even if they are not always quite practical. This issue of Other Voices peers into the world of utopian visions, practical or otherwise.
  6. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 27, 2017
    Official Enemies

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    Why and how do some countries become 'enemies'? How and why do governments and media work in tandem to demonize official enemies? Who are the people who live in those countries, what are their lives like, and why should we consider them our enemies?
  7. Proletarian Order: Antonio Gramsci, Factory Councils and the origins of communism in Italy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    Williams' book is sympathetic to the libertarian contribution to the Italian movement after World War I and I highly recommend it.
  8. Remembering Another Occupy
    Anniversary of the 1937 Sit-Down Strike Wave

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
  9. Sitdown strike or occupation guide
    A guide to taking sit-down strike action or occupations, in which by suddenly refusing to work gains can be won rapidly

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    A strike doesn't have to be long to be effective. Timed and executed right, a strike can be won in minutes. Such strikes are "sitdowns" or "occupations" when everyone just stops work and sits tight, or "mass grievances" when everybody leaves work to go to the boss's office to discuss some matter of importance. This can have many advantages over a conventional strike.
  10. Strike!
    The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
  11. Under New Management?
    The Fisher-Bendix Occupation

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1972
    Solidarity's eyewitness account, with background information, of the ccupation of Fisher-Bendix factory and offices against closure in 1972. The workers also implemented certain new aspects of work policy.
  12. Worker-Student Action Committees France May '68
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    An account of the May-June 1968 events in Paris. The authors state that "our intention is not to 'clarify' the sequence of events which took place in France in order to make possible a ritual repetition of these events, but rather to contrast the limited views we had of the events at the time we were engaged in them, with the views we have gained from further action in different contexts."


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