Workers' Control and Nationalization

  What would workers' control of industry look like and why is nationalization and democratic central planning of the key levers of the economy so important? This booklet draws on the experience of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and the Bolivarian Revolution, as well as including an article by Trotsky, written in 1931, dealing with the question of workers' control.  Workers' control means exactly what it sounds like: the working class and its representatives in the workplace should have the right to inspect the books of a company or industry, and to check and control everything that happens in the workplace, including the actions of management. The immediate tasks of workers' control would be to explain the debits and credits of society: looking first at individual enterprises to determine the share of the national income of individual capitalists and of course the ruling class as a whole. Another task of workers' control would be to reveal to society the squandering of human labor and