Contemporaries across the spectrum of Left thought, from Antonio Negri to Noam Chomsky, are falling over each other to claim the mantle of Left Communism. Left Communism is the theory and practice of worker control and self-organization whose adherents provided the main opposition to the Bolsheviks. Rarely printed, often cited, Pannekoek's Workers' Councils is the Das Kapital of Left Communism. This updated edition includes a substantial introduction from Noam Chomsky, illuminating the continuing relevance of this classic text. An urgent message to the future- are we listening?-from the most brilliant theoretician of libertarian com-munism."-Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz Anton Pannekoekwas a Dutch worker, Socialist, and astronomer. He wrote Workers' Councils amidst Nazi occupation of Holland." | Workers' Councils by Anton Pannekoek, Paperback | Indigo Chapters