Eleven days ago we posted a first article(1) on the strikes and workers’ protests in Iran in which the idea of independent soviets or councils (in Farsi “shura”) was first raised.

Again and again, the latest events and research serve to confirm the startling accuracy of the Marxist perspective.

(Reflections on the CWO/ICT Public Meeting in London, November 17 2018)

Right hand side banner: Workers of Haft Tapeh, We Are Starving! We Are Starving! _

Left hand side banner: Year 1397 (2018) No Food to put on the table - Haft Tapeh

9 November is an auspicious date in the German historical calendar.

Pictured: 1919 May Day demonstration in P?ock, a city in central Poland, with banners reading “Long live the Councils of Worker’s Delegates” and calling for freedom for political prisoners.

The 100th anniversary of the Armistice, which we are told put a stop to the first world war, happens to coincide with remembrance Sunday, or Poppy Day. So we’re in for a treat.

From the standpoint of a higher economic form of society, private ownership of the globe by single individuals will appear quite as absurd as private ownership of one man by another.