[Marxism] "Without workers management, there can be no socialism" Venezuelan workers control conference

["Stuart Munckton" <stuartmunckton@xxxxxxxxx>]

Without Workers Management There Can Be No Socialism
October 30th 2007, by Kiraz Janicke – Venezuelanalysis.com

Over the weekend of October 26 to 27, several hundred people attended
a two day conference on Worker's Management: Theory and Practice, as
part of a program, "Human Development and Transformative Praxis," run
by Canadian Marxist academic Michael Lebowitz at the International
Miranda Center in Caracas. The first day addressed the theory and
historical experience of worker's control and attempts to build
socialism, with presentations by Pablo Levin, the Director of the
Center for Planning and Development at the University of Buenos Aires,
British Marxist economist Patrick Devine (the author of Democracy and
Economic Planning), Michael Lebowitz, and sociologist Carlos Lanz
Rodriguez, a former guerrilla and now president of CVG-ALCASA the
state owned co-managed aluminum factory. The second day of the
conference focused on the various practical experiences of worker
occupied factories in Latin America. Speakers included, Carlos
Quininir (Zanon) and Jose Abelli (FACTA), from the recovered factory
movement in Argentina, Serge Goulart from the Occupied Factory
Movement in Brazil, as well as spokespeople from various examples of
state owned companies under workers control or workers co-management
and worker run cooperatives in Venezuela, including the Tachira
Textile Cooperative, Inveval - an expropriated valve manufacturing
company under workers control, ALCASA, and Cemento Andino in Trujillo,
one of the most recent examples of workers control in Venezuela.

full article: Workers' control conference in
Vhttp://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/2784

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