Marxism, prefigurative communism, and the problem of workers' control - Carl Boggs Carl Boggs writes on the movement for workers' councils, looking at the examples of the failures of the Russian and German revolutions, and the Italian Biennio Rosso.
Councils and State in Weimar Germany - Guido De Masi and Giacomo Marramao Guido De Masi and Giacomo Marramao write on the German workers' councils and council communist movement around the German revolution of 1918.
Pannekoek and Workers' Councils - Serge Bricianer Serge Bricianer on council communist Anton Pannekoek and his ideas on workers' councils.
The Allied Food Blockade of Germany, 1918-19 by N. P. Howard The Social and Political Consequences of the Allied Food Blockade of Germany, 1918-19. N. P. Howard…
Working-class activity and councils - Germany 1918‑1923 - Peter Rachleff A survey of the main events and the limits of working class activity during the Revolution.
The Hamburg revolution - Heinrich Laufenberg A participant's account of their involvement in the November 1918 rebellion in Hamburg, and the movement of workers' councils that developed from…
The communist left in Germany 1918-1921 - Gilles Dauvé and Denis Authier A analysis of the revolutionary movements in Europe at the end of World War I, their contradictions…
Letter on Workers Councils - Anton Pannekoek Letter written by Anton Pannekoek where he expounds his theories on the organisation and power of workers' councils.
Review - Workers' Councils by Anton Pannekoek - Red and Black Notes Red and Black Notes review of Workers' Councils by Anton Pannekoek. The full text of Workers'…
A constitution for British soviets. Points for a communist programme - Sylvia Pankhurst Pankhurst outlines her vision of how a system of soviets might be applied to Britain.
The role of the soviets in Russia's bourgeois revolution: the point of view of Julius Martov - Adam Buick Questions the assumption that the form of working class organisation to overthrow…