Olena Lyubchenko and Zach Hicks co-translated these excerpts from The October Revolution and the Factory Committees (Октябрьская революция и фабзавкомы), the first English-language fragments of a massive text about how Petrograd workers took direct control of the factories in which they worked during the Revolution of 1917. The translators came upon the text through CLR James's letters to Marty Glaberman in the aftermath of the breakup of the Correspondence Publishing Committee. James never read it himself, but he saw the Factory Committees as “the proletarian counterpart (the modern historical symbol of our problems today, the practical concrete problems of the working class) [to what Marx’s] Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts represented in theory.”
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Read it, along with their translator's introduction here.

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