Introduction / Jack Barnes -- Tribunes of the people / V.I. Lenin -- Trade unions in the epoch of imperialist decay / Leon Trotsky -- "In Minneapolis we can begin to show the entire country" / Farrell Dobbs, Jack Barnes -- Trade unions : their past, present, and future / Karl Marx.

During the first two decades of the twentieth century, amidst an extraordinary international upsurge in strike action, the ideas of revolutionary syndicalism developed into a major influence within the world wide trade union movement. Through a comparative study of revolutionary syndicalism in...