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Infighting and desire by authoritarian Marxist groups (i.e., Maoists, Stalinists, etc.) to control the student assemblies and groups destroyed much of the direct democracy at the university. The infighting and sectionalism was so bad that many of the anti-authoritarian groups left the university to go and work out of occupied government buildings. The Stalinist Union labor leaders also tried to get the solidarity between the students and the workers to end, calling the rioters and Situationists various names, and said that they were not to be trusted. They also tried to get the workers back into the factories and end the strike, partly to make sure that they could gain power in the upcoming elections, and also to regain control over the working class - as opposed to having the workers control and manage their own destiny. Although first having left the country, the French President returned late in May, met with Communist Party leaders, and basically challenged the strikers and students to a civil war if they refused to end the occupation and strikes. With not many of the workers prepared to engage in armed struggle against a very powerful state, and with the constant orders of the labor leaders, many of the strikers went back to work, and the occupied buildings were retaken.
===[[Polish revolution]] [[1980]]===
Famously initiated by [[Gdansk shipyard]] workers though the [[Solidarity]] independent [[trade union]], this revolt against the [[Stalinist]] Polish government triggered large scale discussion on various conceptions of "workers' self-government" i.e [[Workers councils]] and forms of [[industrial democracy]]. Large factories took the lead and a survey conducted by solidarity activists found that 95% of respondants in factories employing more than 1000 people were in favour of self-government and 68% of the whole sample wanted Solidarity to start building them at once. In March 1981 a "Network" of these initiatives was forming and by May the biggest enterprises in Poland (including the Gdansk and Warski shipyards) were represented through this movement. By July there were 3000 enterprises linked this way. The Network proposed - "Social ownership of the [[means of production]] should mean just that:ownership by society, not the state. In [[Lubin]] a similar network was organised. Within 2 years this movement had faded with the domination of the "national independence" issue (the freeing of Poland from Russian and [[Warsaw Pact]] interference) and the increasing power of [[nationalist]] and pro-capitalist factions within Solidarity.
References: "The Polish Revolution:Solidarity" by [[Timothy Garton Ash]], (1999) ISBN 0300095686
===[[Zapatista]] Autonomous Municipalities===
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