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Workers' Control in Britain
British and Irish Communist Organisation Policy statement, January 1974
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Defining workers control - the difference between capital opposed to the workforce and capital subject to the workforce
Defining sovereignty
Uses of working class power in the First World War - The Whitley Committee Report. The need to secure working class consent in wartime.
Uses of working class power in the Second World War - Ernest Bevin and compulsory arbitration
Working class power after the war and attempts to discipline it
A brief history of incomes policy
Capitalists prepare for a surrender of sovereignty - a slippery slope towards rendering themselves redundant
Workers v shareholders - a transitional state - the Bolshevik example is irrelevant to the condition of the working class in Britain today
Workers' control and state power - why workers control will be good for politics Workers' control and trade unions - The TUC's 'interim report shows itself more interested in preserving the existing trade union structure intact for all time than in developing the ability of the working class to take full control of production.'
Workers' control and the future
Workers' control and the left - (1) The Syndicalist tradition - The failure of the Syndicalists a failure to take account of the objective laws of capitalism
Workers' control and the left - (2) The would-be revolutionary left - a policy based on abstract right not on material reality.