Workers' control, the case of the Portuguese revolution

Workers' control is one of the most interesting but least studied phenomena of Portugal's revolutionary period. That is obviously a paradox because the existence of workers' control is one of the criteria for defining a period as being revolutionary—as we will argue. In this article, we analyze the theoretical questions around the concept of “workers control,” the difference with the processes of self‐management; empirical cases of companies under workers' control in 1975 in Portugal. From these we analyze the relation between workers, state and revolution, with emphasis on the dual power.