The author compares the role of workers and the labour movement in the 1917 and the 1991 historical periods. In his conclusion he suggests that the contemporary disorganisation and political weakness of the working class is a legacy of the bureaucratic system and a consequence of the selfdestructive reforms of "perestroika". In the long run, he he counts with teh perspective of a strengthening labour movement in Russia.

According to the leader of the Zapatista National Liberation Army, the contemporary economic and social changes in the context of globalisation amount a new world war that is fought by the great financial centres for the redistribution of the world market at the expense of the entire humanity.

The authors claim that the economic performance of the Soviet Union until the 1980s was outstanding. In their view, it was not the planned economy that collapsed but the Soviet Union was destroyed by political interest.

The leader of the Algerian war of independence remembers the revolutionary Cuba and the personal undertaking of Che Guevara in the African and Latin American liberation struggles of the early 1960s.

Countrary to fashionable views the 1917 Russian revolution was dominated by tendencies of self-management and self-government by revolutionary workers' organisations. The article explains how the political authorities that gained increasing autonomy appropriated a majority of the functions of self-managed worker's organisations and nationalised the bodies of workers' self-management.