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The '''Institute for Workers' Control''' was founded in 1968 by Tony Topham and [[Ken Coates]], then a leader of the [[International Marxist Group]], and subsequently became special professor in the [[University of Nottingham]], and a member of the [[European Parliament]] from 1989 until 1999.

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The '''Institute for Workers' Control''' was founded in 1968 by [[Tony Topham]] and [[Ken Coates (politician)|Ken Coates]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=Parry |first1=Gareth |title=The Trouble With Harry |work=The Guardian |date=28 February 1985 |page=19}}</ref> the latter then a leader of the [[International Marxist Group]], and subsequently became special professor inat the [[University of Nottingham]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Advisory Service For City Shop Stewards |work=Evening Post and News |date=31 March 1969 |___location=Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England |page=11}}</ref> and a member of the [[European Parliament]] from 1989 until 1999.

The Institute drew together [[shop stewards]] and militant workers to discuss [[workers' control]] of production. It grew out fromof the [[Workers' Control Conferences]] organised from 1964 by The''Voice Week andof the VoiceUnions'' and the [[Centre for Socialist Education]]. From around 100 at the first meeting in [[Nottingham]], the figure grew to some 1200 in 1969. The goals of the Institute were to "assist in the formation of workers control groups dedicated to the development of democratic consciousness, to the winning of support for workers control in all the existing organisations of Labour, to the challenging of undemocratic actions wherever they may occur, and to the extension of democratic control over industry and the economy itself".<ref>{{cite news |title=Source Of Anxierty For Labour |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=10 June 1981 |page=9}}</ref>

The Institute won sponsorship from a number of trade union leaders, including [[Hugh Scanlon]]. In the later opinion of the [[International Marxist Group]]'s journal, the Institute over-accomodatedaccommodated to its sponsors and failed to organise its supporters: "only 26 people attended the [[Annual General Meeting|AGM]] in 1970, and affiliation and membership fees have been maintained at a very high level."

== Publications ==

* Coates and Topham [http://www.spokesmanbooks.com/Readings%20and%20Witnesses.htm Readings and Witnesses for Workers' Control]

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*{{cite book |author=Peter Hain and Simon Hebditch |title=Radicals and Socialism |publisher=Institute for Workers' Control |year=1978 |isbn=978-0-901740-55-7}}

*{{cite book |author=Peter Hain |title=Reviving the Labour Party |publisher=Institute for Workers' Control |year=1980 |isbn=978-0-901740-69-4}}

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== References ==

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==External links==

* Ken Coates and Tony Topham, eds, [https://web.archive.org/web/20060516212309/http://www.spokesmanbooks.com/Readings%20and%20Witnesses.htm Readings and Witnesses for Workers' Control], Spokesman Books

* Socialist Renewa: [https://www.socialistrenewal.net/2023/06/27/about/ Institute for Workers' Control archive]

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