Friday 24 May 2013

A Workers Experiment.


     If we want justice and a decent quality of life for all, then we have to completely change the way society is structured. Invisible shareholders who grow fat on workers sweat will never produce a society that sees to the needs of all our people. Workers takeover and workers management is the only way industry can be developed to the benefit of the community. Now seems the right time to move that plan forward, as is already happening in all sorts of places across the globe.
“No worker who is not a shareholder, no shareholder who is not a worker,” say the workers of VIOME (Industrial Mineral), a factory in northern Greece. Their plan to take over the factory and to manage it themselves has generated waves of encouragement and support throughout the world. In this report for UNFOLLOW magazine, Christos Avramidis and Antonis Galanopoulos investigate the background to current events, and ask what the future might hold for these workers and their plan, what the reaction of the Greek government is likely to be, and whether workers’ self-management is feasible in a capitalist context.----
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