Inquiry // Notes From Below

A black and white collage of various workers inquiry articles from the publication "Race Today"

A History of Workers’ Inquiry in England
by George Briley, Matthew, Dante Philp / June 10, 2026

A picture of Nanni Balestrini's collage artwork "Potere Operaio" form 1975. It is made up of many newspaper cuttings depicting sentences relating to workers' struggle and left wing politics in the 1960s and 70s.

Editorial: Why do inquiry today?
by Notes from Below / June 10, 2026

"Lenin" mural by Erich Enge on a building in Halle-Neustadt, Germany. The mural features Lenin’s face, surrounded by people reading and studying.

Workers’ Inquiry and Ideology
by Roberto Mozzachiodi / June 10, 2026

'The Spirit of Buffalo', a sgraffito mural depicting a city by Joseph Slawinski.

Why Class Composition?
by Jamie Woodcock / June 10, 2026

Photograph of Farah strikers and supporters marching through the streets of El Paso, 1972.

“Little Scraps and Memory”: Lineages of Workers’ Inquiry in the US
by Patrick King / June 10, 2026

Engineers, Materialism, and the Communist Method
by Nick Chavez / May 30, 2023

Co-research and Workers’ Control
by Raniero Panzieri / Sept. 7, 2022

Notes Towards a Practice of Territorial Inquiry
by Neil Gray / Oct. 9, 2019

Processed World
by Chris Carlsson / June 8, 2019

Editors' notes on class composition and technology
by Notes from Below / March 30, 2018

Tech workers, platform workers, and workers’ inquiry
by Tech Workers Coalition / March 30, 2018

No Politics Without Inquiry! (1995)
by Ed Emery / Jan. 29, 2018

An apartment bloc and balconies

The Workers’ Inquiry and Social Composition
by Notes from Below / Jan. 29, 2018

Workers' Inquiry: A Genealogy
by Salar Mohandesi, Asad Haider / Jan. 29, 2018

Mass worker and social worker: reflections on the "new class composition" (1981)
by Alberto Battaggia / Jan. 29, 2018