出版信息：这本小册子首版于1947年的阿姆斯特丹，英文首版在1950年出版。原文作者是荷兰天文学家和共产主义者安东·潘涅库克。
1950年版前言（英文译者）
The main part of this book has been written during the war under the occupation of Holland by the Germans, the first three parts 1942; the fourth 1944; a fifth part was added after the war, 1947. The author, who during many years attentively observed, and sometimes actively took part in, the workers' movement, gives here a summary of what from these experiences and study may be derived as to methods and aims of the workers' fight for freedom. A somewhat different Dutch version was published in Holland, 1946. The English version was printed at Melbourne serially, as an addition to the monthly "Southern Advocate for Workers' Councils," during the years 1947-49. Owing to many difficulties the publication in book-form was delayed until 1950.——J. A. Dawson
这本书的主体部分是在荷兰被德国占领期间写成的，前三章在1942年完成，而第四章在1944年完成；在战后的1947年，作者又添加了第五章。本书作者多年来持续观察工人运动，有时也会积极参与其中。他在本书中总结了工人运动的经验，以及对于工人争取自由的方式和目标的一些研究的总结。在1946年，一个与原版略有不同的荷兰语版本在荷兰出版。英语版首先在墨尔本成批印刷，作为1947年至1949年期间每月“工人委员会的南方倡导者”的补充。 鉴于各种困难，以实体书形式的出版被推迟到1950年。
-- J. A. Dawson
前言（荷兰语版）
This book has been written in the war years 1941-42 under the occupation of Holland by the Germans. The author, who during many years attentively observed and sometimes actively took part in the workers' movement, gives here a summary of what from these experiences and study may be derived as to methods and aims of the workers' fight for freedom. What a century of workers' struggles presents to us is neither a series of ever again failing attempts at liberalism, nor a steadfast forward march of the workers following a fixed plan of old well-tried tactics. With the development of society we see arise new forms of fight, and this development imposed by the growth of capitalism and the growth of the working class, must go on in ever mightier display.
本书是在1941-1942年荷兰被德国人占领期间写完的。本书作者多年来持续观察工人运动，有时也会积极参与其中。他在本书中总结了工人运动的经验，以及对于工人争取自由的方式和目标的一些研究的总结。一个世纪以来的工人斗争向我们展示的，既不是一而再再而三的、为争取自由而进行的失败尝试，也不是工人按照既定的经过深思熟虑的策略而亦步亦趋的行动。伴随着社会发展，我们见到了斗争新形式的出现，而这种发展是在资本主义的进步和工人阶级的成熟的共同作用下产生的，这些新形式必然会更强有力地展示给我们。
The first part of the book shows the task which the workers have to perform and the fight they have to wage. The following parts treat the social and spiritual trends arising in the bourgeoisie that determine the conditions under which the workers had and have to fight. All the discourses are based on the deep connection between production system and class-fight elucidated in Marxian theory.
本书的第一章展示了工人必须执行的任务以及他们必须发起的斗争。下一章节分析了资产阶级内部的社会与思想潮流，这决定了工人们所处的并必须斗争的境况。本书中的言论都建立在马克思主义的生产系统和阶级斗争理论之上。
-- The Editor.
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