Socialist Renewal

The Institute for Workers' Control was formed in 1968, building on a series of conferences over several years, to act as a research and educational body, to encourage discussion and communication between workers' control groups and trade unions, and to publish important materials on industrial democracy and workers' control.

Below is a list of the pamphlets from the IWC series. We are gradually making these pamphlets available online. The first 33 titles have been converted to PDF and these can be viewed by clicking on the links below.

The Way Forward for Workers' Control - Hugh Scanlon - IWC Pamphlet No. 1

Productivity Bargaining and Workers' Control - Hugh Scanlon - IWC Pamphlet No. 2

Labour and Sterling - Michael Barratt Brown - IWC Pamphlet No. 3

Opening the Books - Michael Barratt Brown - IWC Pamphlet No. 4

The Labour Party's Plans for Industrial Democracy - Ken Coates and Tony Topham - IWC Pamphlet No. 5

Workers' Control and the Motor Industry - Bob Harrison and Walter Kendall - IWC Pamphlet No. 6

Steel Workers Next Step - A Group of Sheffield Steel Workers - IWC Pamphlet No. 7

Industrial Democracy and National Fuel Policy - A Miners' Programme - IWC Pamphlet No. 8

A Socialist Strategy for Western Europe - Ernest Mandel - IWC Pamphlet No. 10

Soviets in Italy - Antonio Gramsci - IWC Pamphlet No. 11

The Dockers' Next Step - Hull and London Port Workers' Control Groups - IWC Pamphlet No. 12

Four Steps for Progress: The Operation of a Municipal Transport System with Workers' Control - Jack Ashwell with a Foreword by Bill Jones - IWC Pamphlet No. 13

The 'Big Flame' and What is the IWC? - Ken Coates and Michael Barratt Brown - IWC Pamphlet No. 14

The Law versus the Unions - Ken Coates and Tony Topham - IWC Pamphlet No. 15

Job Evaluation and Workers' Control - Ray Collins - IWC Pamphlet No. 16

General Electric Company - English Electric - Michael Barratt Brown, Ken Coates, Ken Fleet, Richard Fletcher, Brian Nicholson, Freddie Silberman, and Tony Topham - IWC Pamphlet No. 17

A Hope for the Miners? - John Hughes - IWC Pamphlet No. 18

Bertrand Russell and Industrial Democracy - Ken Coates and others – IWC Pamphlet No. 19

Farm Workers’ Control - Nick Hillier – IWC Pamphlet No. 20

Problems of Trade Union Democracy - Richard Fletcher – IWC Pamphlet No. 21

Workers’ Control & the Transnational Company - Hugh Scanlon – IWC Pamphlet No. 22

The Threat to the Steel Workers - The Scunthorpe Group – IWC Pamphlet No. 23

Trade Union & Rising Prices - Evidence of the IWC to the Court of Enquiry – IWC Pamphlet No. 24

UCS Workers’ Control: The Real Defence against Unemployment is attack! - John Eaton, John Hughes & Ken Coates – IWC Pamphlet No. 25

Public Enterprise Defended - Michael Barratt Brown – IWC Pamphlet No. 29

What Really Happened to the Coal Industry - Michael Barratt Brown - IWC Pamphlet No. 31

Docks III: A National Strategy - Brian Nicholson & Walt Greendale – IWC Pamphlet No. 32

The New Society - John Eaton – IWC Pamphlet No. 33

The Income Problems - Paul Derrick – IWC Pamphlet No. 34

State Ownership, Workers’ Control & Socialism - Walter Kendall – IWC Pamphlet No. 35

Catching Up with the Times: How Far the TUC Get the Message About - IWC Pamphlet No. 37

Public Ownership and Democracy - Michael Barratt Brown and Stuart Holland - IWC Pamphlet No. 38

Health & Safety A Question of Workers’ Control - Tony Topham – IWC Pamphlet No. 39

Workers’ Control in the Mining Industry - Eric Varley - IWC Pamphlet No. 40

The Flixborough Disaster - John Greyston – IWC Pamphlet No. 41

Sit-in at Fisher Bendix - Tom Clarke – IWC Pamphlet No. 42

A New Approach to Public Ownership - Bristol Aircraft Workers – IWC Pamphlet No. 43

A Hundred Years of Farmworkers Struggle - Joan Maynard – IWC Pamphlet No. 44

Industrial Democracy - Tony Benn – IWC Pamphlet No. 45

Why Imperial Typewriters must not close - Trade Union Action Committee – IWC Pamphlet No. 46

Workers’ Control in Allende’s Chile - Andrew Zimbalist and James Petras - IWC Pamphlet No. 47

Labour and the Slump - Tony Benn - IWC Pamphlet No. 48

A Ten-year Industrial Strategy for Britain - Tony Benn, Frances Morrell and Francis Cripps - IWC Pamphlet No. 49

Accountability and Industrial Democracy - Michael Barratt Brown and Ken Coates - IWC Pamphlet No. 50

A New Course for Labour - Tony Benn - IWC Pamphlet No. 51

Workers’ Control in Portugal Report from Russell Commission - IWC Pamphlet No. 52

Ashfield: What’s Going Wrong? - Ken Coates - IWC Pamphlet No. 53

Ford: Shop Stewards on Industrial Democracy - Bernie Passingham and Danny Connor - IWC Pamphlet No. 54

Lucas: An Alternative Plan - IWC Pamphlet No. 55

A Reply to Arthur Scargill - Ken Coates - IWC Pamphlet No. 56

The Cuts: Strange Arithmetic - John Hughes - IWC Pamphlet No. 58

Industrial Democracy in Local Government - Mike Somerton – IWC Pamphlet No. 59

Industry, Technology and Democracy - Tony Benn - IWC Pamphlet No. 60

Industrial Development and Democratic Planning: The Case of Belvoir - Ken Coates – IWC Pamphlet No. 61

The Right to Know - Tony Benn – IWC Pamphlet No. 62

A Shorter Working Week - John Hughes – IWC Pamphlet No. 63

A Debate on Workers’ Control - Arthur Scargill, Audrey Wise & Mike Cooley – IWC Pamphlet No. 64

Democracy Versus the Circumlocution Office - The Lucas Aerospace Combine Shop Stewards’ Committee - IWC Pamphlet No. 65

The Need for a Free Press - Tony Benn - IWC Pamphlet No. 66

The Case for a Constitutional Premiership - Tony Benn – IWC Pamphlet No. 67

The First Worker Co-operators: Proposals for Raising a College of Industry - John Bellers - IWC Pamphlet No. 68

The Case for a Constitutional Civil Service - Tony Benn - IWC Pamphlet No. 69

De-industrialisation - John Hughes – IWC Pamphlet No. 70

Refreshing the Parts that others cannot reach - Peter Hain - IWC Pamphlet No. 71

The Case for Party Democracy - Tony Benn - IWC Pamphlet No. 72

Poland: 1980 - Tony Topham - IWC Pamphlet No. 74

Arthurian Myth and Legend Re-considered - Tony Topham - IWC Pamphlet No. 75

Towards Democratic Socialism - Eric Heffer – IWC Pamphlet No. 76

How to Select or Reselect your MP - Chris Mullin and Charlotte Atkins - IWC Pamphlet No. 77

Job Creation by the Council - Michael Ward - IWC Pamphlet No. 78

Local Enterprise and Workers’ Plans - David Blunkett, Brian Davey, John Bennington, Mike George - IWC Pamphlet No. 79

Some Lessons for Workers’ Co-ops - Denis Gregory – IWC Pamphlet No. 80

Democracy in the Engineering Union - E & R Frow and Ernie Roberts - IWC Pamphlet No. 81

Task Force against Poverty, Low Pay & Unemployment - Michael Meacher, Ken Coates and Walter Greendale - IWC Pamphlet No. 82

Proportional Misrepresentation - Peter Hain & Geoff Hodgson – IWC Pamphlet No. 83

Trade Unionism: A Strategy for the 1980s - Tony Benn - IWC Pamphlet No. 84

Fighting Privatisation: The Struggle for Wandsworth - David Benlow & Jan Scott - IWC Pamphlet No. 85

Fighting Privatisation: The Victory in Gloucester - IWC Pamphlet No. 87

Trade Unions & Political Action - Ken Coates and Tony Topham - IWC Pamphlet No. 88

Woman’s Lot: Political Purdah & The Labour Party - Anselm Eldergill - IWC Pamphlet No. 89

Nowt for Nowt - John Hughes - IWC Pamphlet No. 90

Socialism 21 - Ken Coates - IWC Pamphlet No. 90

1000 Hours by the Year 2000 - Ken Coates, Ron Todd, Peter Glotz & Andre Gorz - IWC Pamphlet No. 92

Europe 1992 - Michael Barratt Brown - IWC Pamphlet No. 93