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For Canadian Workers: Lessons From Italy

Publisher:  The Labour Education Project, Toronto, Canada
Year Published:  1973  
Resource Type:  Book

Abstract: 
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A local group, The Labour Education Protect, 92 Bedford Road, Toronto 5, is distributing a pamphlet entitled. For Canadian Workers: Lessons From Italy. The booklet deals with organizing experiences of Italian workers, especially at the mammoth FIAT works, in trying to bring about workers' control.

Their militancy reflects a determination to bypass both the bureaucratized Communist Party and the tame, bought-off union hierarchies. Mass struggle for radical goals has been a feature of Italian politics since 1969.

A preface ties the new tactics and organizational forms from Italy to the Canadian scene where the docile international unions, the senile vanguard parties, and the liberals-in-the NDP have proven inadequate against attacks on workers' living standards and the widespread use of strike-breaking companies. When new strategies and forms of organization are obviously necessary, contributions such as this pamphlet are valuable. The emergence of non-sectarian groups such as the Labour Education Project and Windsor's Community Resource Contra are hopeful signs as well.

[review by Ulli Diemer]

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