1. Council Democracy: Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics [James Muldoon] Part I: The Councils in Historical Perspective
2. The Development of Workers’ Councils: Between Spontaneity and Organisation [Donny Gluckstein] 3. Rediscovering the Hamburg Workers’ and Soldiers’ Councils [Gaard Kets and James Muldoon] Part II: Councils, the State and the Problem of Socialisation
4. In Defence of Council Democracy [Gabriel Wollner] 5. Council Democracy and the Socialisation Dilemma [Nicholas Vrousalis] 6. A Theory of Council Republicanism [Michael J. Thompson] Part III: The Councils in Radical Democratic Theory
7. The Councils as Ontological Form: Cornelius Castoriadis and the Autonomous Potential of Council Democracy [Christopher Holman] 8. Hannah Arendt, the Council System, and Contemporary Political Theory [Shmuel Lederman] 9. The Self-Limiting Revolution and the Mixed Constitution of Socialist Democracy: Claude Lefort’s Vision of Council Democracy [Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen] Part IV: Beyond the Councils
10. After the Councils: Opposing Domination and Developing Democratic Agency [John Medearis] 11. The Case for Workplace Democracy [David Ellerman] 12. The Legacy of Workers’ Councils in Contemporary Social Movements [Dario Azzellini]