Independent factory committees clashed with seeking union-institution alliances

Evidence

It was at this point that a new disagreement with Tasca arose in the Central Committee, on an issue which was to become very important the following year. For Tasca criticised the whole attempt to stimulate the formation of autonomous factory committees, outside the established trade-union structure (it was substantially the same disagreement which had arisen in 1919-20), and called for an initiative towards the P.S.I, and an attempt to reach agreement with the reformist C.G.L. leaders for common action to defend the remnants of trade-union independence. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 204

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• SEED: The tension between building autonomous organs versus seeking common action with established structures is a recurring strategic dilemma — could surface in essays on front-building and united fronts.

Related

• Autonomous factory committees threatened established trade-union structures from inception. (similarity 0.91)

Broader Connections

• Trade unions can be co-opted to contain working-class opposition #complicates (0.72)