Category: Companion texts
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Preface to Romano Alquati’s ‘To do co-research’ – Gigi Roggero (2022)
Here we have translated Gigi Roggero’s Preface to the 2022 reprint of Romano Alquati’s ‘To do co-research [Per fare concicerca]. Romano Alquati was a communist militant based in northern Italy (first Cremona, and then later Turin). Originally involved in the early operaista journal ‘Quaderni Rossi‘, Alquati pioneered their early workers’ inquiries into the FIAT and…
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Anarcho-Syndicalism in the Spanish Revolution – Helmut Rüdiger (1938)
For this month’s session we’re sharing a translation of Helmut Rüdiger’s ‘Anarcho-Syndicalism in the Spanish Revolution‘, a text which, as far as we’re aware, was previously unavailable in English. Rüdiger was a German anarcho-syndicalist and co-president of the IWA office in the CNT-FAI headquarters during the war. As a survivor of the German revolution, editor…
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Extracts on the Household Soviet – Sylvia Pankhurst (1920)
As a kind of addendum to last month’s session and a bridge to the third, this month we’re sharing three extracts from Sylvia Pankhurst’s writing on ‘household soviets’ and ‘co-operative housekeeping’. Sylvia Pankhurst is best known as a militant campaigner for women’s suffrage in Britain at the start of the 20th century. She came, though,…
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The ‘Other’ Workers’ Movement – Paul Mattick Sr (1975)
Alongside our discussion summaries, as we move through the Workers’ Councils series we’re also intending to publish previously unavailable or underappreciated companion texts. Here we’re sharing a new English translation of Paul Mattick’s 1975 review of Karl Heinz Roth and Elisabeth Behren’s Die “andere” Arbeiterbewegung und die Entwicklung der kapitalistischen Repression von 1880 bis zur…