Workers Power & the Spanish Revolution (in PDF) by Tom Wetzel
Workers Power & the Russian Revolution by Tom Wetzel
A review of For Workers Power by Maurice Brinton
The Italian Factory Occupations of 1920 by Tom Wetzel
Russian Revolution:
On workers self-management during the Russian Revolution and how it got suppressed:
On May 1, 1886, Albert Parsons, leader of the Knights of Labor in Chicago, walked hand in hand with his wife at the head of a parade of 70,000 people which inaugurated the national general strike for the 8-hour day. For his efforts, Parsons, along with other activists of the International Working People's Association, was lynched by the government. The IWPA was an organization that advocated workers self-management of industry as well as racial and sexual equality. More about the origins of International Workers Day (May Day).
Bolsheviks and Workers Control by Maurice Brinton
Soviets and Factory Committees in the Russian Revolution by Pete Rachleff
Spain:
In the 1970s, Spain's longshore workers built a network of self-managed, autonomous unions, called La Coordinadora, described in:
General:
African Anarchism by Sam Mbah and I.E. Igariwey
Anarcho-Syndicalism by Rudolf Rocker
The American Labor Movement: A New Beginning by Sam Dolgoff
Syndicalism: What it is by Gaylord Wilshire (1913)
Principles, Goals and Statutes of the International Workers Association
The Founding of the Worker's International
by
Michael Bakunin
Syndicalism: Its Theory and Practice by Emma Goldman
(also available as a pamphlet from WSA New York/New Jersey branch)
Direct Action
by Voltairine de Cleyre
A Short History of Syndicalism
Members of the IWW Agricultural Workers Organization
take a vote in the early '20s.
Spanish Dock Workers Build Union Without Bureaucrats
by Don Fitz
Anarchism and Power in the Spanish Revolution
Murray Bookchin on the contradictory nature of "anti-power" anarchism.
The Spanish Civil War: Anarchism in Action by the Workers Solidarity Movement
Towards a Fresh Revolution by the Friends of Durruti Group (1938)
The Barcelona Rent Strike of 1931
Marxists and Spanish Anarchism
A reply to various Marxist criticisms of Spanish anarchosyndicalism, compiled
by Iain McKay.
Lucy Parsons Project
Lucy Gonzalez Parsons was an anarchist labor organizer of African, Mexican
and indigenous origin, and a founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World.
"Though she affiliated herself with many different groups
throughout her lifetime, Lucy Parsons' strong politics and
beliefs remained distinctly individual and uncompromising.
She never sought less than revolution to change the
oppressive capitalist system surrounding her. Working with a
clear focus from a perspective of class consciousness, Lucy
fought with the workers first, seeing issues of sex and race as
intertwined with the larger struggle. Because she was a
woman of action and strong words, the establishment tried to
repress her individual voice."