{"product_id":"9781931859028","title":"Revolutionary Rehearsals","description":"\u003cp\u003eFive times in the last 40 years, the working class has posed a radical alternative to the status quo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrance 1968: A general strike and factory occupations by millions of workers shake the country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChile 1972: Workers defending the Popular Unity government set up workers’ councils—the cordones—and demand control over production.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePortugal 1974: Army officers overthrow the dictator Caetano and release an upsurge of \"popular power\" whichs last 18 months.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIran 1979: The viciously repressive Shah is toppled and workers set up independent councils, the shoras.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoland 1980: Demanding radical change, workers build the independent trade union Solidarity to fight for their own interests, exposing the false socialism of the Eastern Bloc.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn each of these cases, the actions of workers themselves were the driving force of struggles with revolutionary potential. They demonstrate that workers can and will fight back on a mass scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach episode offers an inspiring glimpse of the way in which workers rise to the challenge of fighting for a better world—and pose their own alternative to the system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough none of these struggles ultimately achieved their goals, they were \"revolutionary rehearsals\" that hold important lessons about the struggle for socialism under modern conditions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039572377840,"sku":"9781931859028","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781931859028_p0.jpg?v=1763638995","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781931859028","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}