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Richard 🔶UK #RejoinEU Feb 1, 2025

@IanDSmith Totally agree. I detest these, "get to know your co-workers," courses. My office had 4 coloured bricks that you were supposed to stack on your desk so that people approaching you would know what, 'type,' you were. Outrageous invasion of privacy. You don't pay me enough! #WouldNotFlyInGermany #WorkersCouncil

Miguel Afonso Caetano Dec 8, 2024

"The ruling classes, that is, the bourgeoisie, bureaucracy, intelligentsia, etc., never tire of affirming the incompetence, incapacity and ignorance of the workers. This has a reason; it is not something gratuitous or without purpose. In all class societies, the ruling classes affirm and reaffirm the inferiority of the exploited classes. In order for the latter to remain exploited, they must truly believe that they are incapable, inferior and ignorant.

A condition for workers to truly conquer their freedom is their self-activity as a class for themselves. No other class has an interest in this happening. The ruling class (bourgeoisie), the auxiliary classes of the bourgeoisie (bureaucracy and intelligentsia) and other upper classes (landowners, for example) insist with all the power they have on the incapacity of the workers. The workers, in turn, must, with all the weapons at their disposal, demonstrate their capacity for self-organization.

Pannekoek (1977) is emphatic on this issue. Both parties and unions, regardless of their orientation, actually represent interests that are not those of the working class. According to Pannekoek's analysis, these organizations represent an expression of the “old workers' movement”. This movement was not yet capable of acting on its own. Unions are the type of organization needed by a dispersed, incipient proletariat living in abject conditions, those of the beginning of capitalist production."

https://libcom.org/article/anton-pannekoeks-workers-councils-concrete-utopia-proletarian-revolution

#CouncilCommunism #WorkersCouncil #Marxism #Utopia #Revolution

Anton Pannekoek’s Workers’ Councils: a Concrete Utopia of the Proletarian Revolution

Article by Lucas Maia where he sketches out the convergences between Anton Pannekoek's Council Theory and Ernst Bloch's Utopian Theory and also shows how Workers' Councils embody the Bloch's concept of Concrete Utopia. Originally published in MAIA, Lucas. Comunismo de Conselhos e Autogestão Social. 2nd ed. Rio de Janeiro: Rizoma, 2015.

libcom.org

Aljoscha Rittner (beandev)Nov 29, 2024

Neue Dimensionen der #Mitarbeiterüberwachung

https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Auslegungssache-123-Neue-Dimensionen-der-Mitarbeiterueberwachung-10181275.html

>> Eine Studie zeigt, welch umfassende Möglichkeiten Microsoft mittlerweile Unternehmen zur Überwachung ihrer Mitarbeiter bietet. Wo bleibt da der Datenschutz?

#Teams #office365 #dataprotection #WorkersCouncil #Microsoft

Auslegungssache 123: Neue Dimensionen der Mitarbeiterüberwachung

Eine Studie zeigt, welch umfassende Möglichkeiten Microsoft mittlerweile Unternehmen zur Überwachung ihrer Mitarbeiter bietet. Wo bleibt da der Datenschutz?

c't Magazin

A-Radio Berlin Sep 22, 2022

Gorillas Workers‘ Collective – Presentation about their struggles in Berlin’s delivery sector
On 14 February 2022 there was an info event held at the New Yorck space in Bethanien, Berlin, by the Gorillas Workers' Collective (Twitter). The talk was on their
https://www.aradio-berlin.org/gorillas-workers-collective-struggles-in-berlins-delivery-sector/
#EnglischsprachigeBeiträge #anticapitalism #GigEconmy #GorillasWorkersCollective #SelfOrganization #Workerscouncil #WorkersStruggle

Gorillas Workers' Collective - Presentation about their struggles in Berlin's delivery sector

On 14 February 2022 there was an info event held at the New Yorck space in Bethanien, Berlin, by the Gorillas Workers' Collective. The talk was on their experiences in their self-organizing as gig-economy workers. Here we are sharing this (sadly only partial) recording of the event.

Anarchistisches Radio Berlin