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Louise O'Shea

Factory committees and the development of socialist consciousness

Socialism 2017

What does it look like when workers start running their workplaces? How do you get from running your own workplace to smashing capitalism? How do workers go from wanting to fix the system to wanting to win a new one? Louise O'Shea answers all these questions and more as she looks at the history of factory committees in the Russian Revolution and demonstrates the role that these radically democratic bodies play in the fight for socialism.