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**Workers' councils** are organisations that govern industry or a
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municaplity made up of temporary and instantly revocable
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[delegates](delegates "wikilink") elected in the region's workplaces. A
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variation is a **soldiers' council**, when the delegates are chosen
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amongst ([mutinous](Mutiny "wikilink")) soldiers. A mix of workers and
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soldiers have also existed
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## Timeline of Workers' and Soldiers' Councils
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- 1871: The [Paris Commune](Paris_Commune "wikilink") in
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[France](France "wikilink") is seen by some as a workers' council.
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- 1917: Approximately 13 workers' councils are [set
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up](Norwegian_Workers'_Council_Wave "wikilink") across cities and
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towns in the [UK](United_Kingdom "wikilink").
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- 1918: Approximately 91 workers' councils are [set
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up](Norwegian_Workers'_Council_Wave "wikilink") across cities and
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towns in [Norway](Norway "wikilink").
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- 1919: 2,500 soldiers in Kantara, Egypt form a [soldiers'
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council](Kantara_Soldiers'_Council "wikilink") during a mutiny.
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- 1919: Approximately 7 workers' councils are set up across cities in
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the [USA](United_States_of_America "wikilink").
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- 1945: Tramworkers' form a workers' council during the [Saigon
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Uprising](Saigon_Commune "wikilink").
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- 1968: Workers' councils form across France during the May Events.
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- 1973: Workers' councils begin forming in Chile.
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- 1978: Workers' councils begin forming in Iran during the Iranian
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Revolution. |