Grassroots Economic Organizing

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Update on occupied factories in Argentina

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September 6, 2009

Factory in the Hands of Workers
August, 14 2009
By Marie Trigona

Zanon belongs to the people: FASINPAT wins definitive expropriation

The workers at Argentina's occupied ceramics factory FASINPAT won a major victory this week, the factory now definitively belongs to the people in legal terms. The provincial legislature voted in favor of expropriating the ceramics factory and handing it over to the workers cooperative to manage legally and indefinitely.
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While the victory of FASINPAT brings hope to many of the 200 occupied factories currently operated under worker self-management in Argentina, many are still facing legal attacks. Early yesterday morning, just hours after the Zanon victory, a police operative evicted the factory Textil Quilmes, a thread factory occupied in the new wave of factory occupations in 2009.

For the full article, go to: http://www.zcommunications.org/zspace/commentaries/3951

 

 

Latin America solidarity economy Workplace Democracy Worker Cooperatives Manufacturing

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