My colleagues and I, like other frontline workers, are being sacrificed to sustain a system that treats us as expendable. The only solution is collective organisation.
JobKeeper excludes too many workers. The government can't wait to cut the rate and wind it down. But even as we fight to expand and defend it, workers must fight to move past the boss-first policy of wage subsidies, which are meant to shore up profits, not protect workers.
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.
