<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><p class="Standard" style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><span lang="ES" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Call for Participation</span></strong><strong><span lang="ES" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></strong></span></p><p class="Standard" style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong><span lang="ES" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I. Background</span></strong></p><p class="Standard" style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Since 2007, the International Gathering of “The Workers’ Economy” (Encuentro Internacional de “La Economía de los Trabajadores-Trabajadoras”) has taken place every two years. The gatherings have opened up a space for debate and dialogue between workers, social and political activists, academics, and intellectuals concerning the problems and potential of what we have termed “the workers’ economy”—based on self-management and the defence of the rights and interests of the population that lives by their work, within the rubric of today’s conjuncture of global neoliberal capitalism. What has inspired and guided the debates and discussions of these past <em>encuentros</em> (gatherings) were the experiments of self-management forged by the people of South America, such as: the worker-recuperated enterprises of Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil; worker cooperative movements; experiences in workers’ control and co-management in Bolivarian Venezuela; and the social and solidarity economy. These <em>encuentros</em> have been spaces where an increasingly necessary discussion—of the old and new problems faced by the working class and updated for our times of global neoliberal hegemony—is being revived and reconstituted.</span></p><p class="Standard" style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.workerscontrol.net/geographical/vth-international-gathering-“-workers’-economy”">http://www.workerscontrol.net/geographical/vth-international-gathering-“-workers’-economy”</a></span></p><p class="Standard" style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></body></html>