Building the Workers’ Republics

By: Ronan Burtenshaw

If the Left is to recover from its defeats, it will need a presence in workers’ daily lives – and examples of how a socialist society can provide a better future.

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The last hundred years in Western Europe saw relatively few breakthroughs for socialist governments at the national level. Reforming administrations which improved conditions for workers were more common, not least the post-war Labour government in Britain. But governments which offered glimpses of a world beyond capitalism were fleetingly rare. A case could be made for […]

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The last hundred years in Western Europe saw relatively few breakthroughs for socialist governments at the national level. Reforming administrations which improved conditions for workers were more common, not least the post-war Labour government in Britain. But governments which offered glimpses of a world beyond capitalism were fleetingly rare. A case could be made for […]

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The last hundred years in Western Europe saw relatively few breakthroughs for socialist governments at the national level. Reforming administrations which improved conditions for workers were more common, not least the post-war Labour government in Britain. But governments which offered glimpses of a world beyond capitalism were fleetingly rare. A case could be made for […]

The last hundred years in Western Europe saw relatively few breakthroughs for socialist governments at the national level. Reforming administrations which improved conditions for workers were more common, not least the post-war Labour government in Britain. But governments which offered glimpses of a world beyond capitalism were fleetingly rare. A case could be made for […]

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