In the wake of the First World War and the Russian Revolution, Italy was swept by a militant workers' movement that inspired and challenged Marxist theorists like Antonio Gramsci. This article, the first in a two-part series, explores how the factory council movement emerged.
In the late 1960s, militant Black workers in Detroit's auto industry tried to combine radical socialist politics with rank-and-file union activism, to "take the uprising into the factories". The result was DRUM: the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement.
No Evil Foods says that its El Zapatista vegan chorizo "radically redefines mealtime". But the company wasn't so interested in radicalism when its employees tried to set up a union.
Australia's supposed history of national unity and cooperation is regularly invoked by both right-wing politicians and trade union leaders. But the country's history is one of bitter class struggle, even during the peaks of nationalist frenzy like the first World War.
