The fight for workers' power: Revolution and counter-revolution in the 20th century - Paperbackby Tom Bramble (Author), Mick Armstrong (Author) The horrors of 20th century capitalism threw up numerous challenges by workers and peasants, who rose up in their millions to fight the system. Inspired by the successful 1917 Russian Revolution, they repeatedly created their own institutions of collective power and in doing so demonstrated not just how to organise their struggles in the present but also how to build a world free of capitalists,