Soviet Workers News Today

This evening, the Rachel Maddow show starts now. Early for a change. I have something to spend this time doing. Exactly. Thanks, my friend, appreciate it. Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Very happy to have you here tonight. Who here is old enough to have ever used a typewriter . I took typing class and it was on a typewriter. Im that old. Typewriters started off with a mechanism that looked like this. You pressed a button on a keyboard for a specific letter, but then a little arm...

Aufheben's final article on the nature of the USSR, arguing that the Soviet Union was in fact a state capitalist system but where the law of value was deformed.

A detailed account and analysis of the Teikovo cotton workers' strike of April 1932, examining class, gender identity politics in Stalin's Russia.

The issue of labor discipline lay at the very heart of the antagonistic relationship between the Soviet elite and its work force. Soviet industry was plagued with high labor turnover, absenteeism, heavy drinking, and slow work. Don Filtzer explains how this encouraged the system's eventual collapse.

Assembled at the building site under their own peoples supervision. and just to be doubly safe, every component that went into building the rnks gembassy in washington, d.c. was x-rayed piece by piece as it was put together to make sure there was no funny business, no cia bugs for the russian embassy. nothing had been concerted into the construction materials somehow. that was the russian side of the deal. the american side of the deal was different. the american side of the deal, for our buildi...

Every single beam, every single board. everything that went into that embassy was cut and cast and assembled at the building site under their own peoples supervision. and just to be doubly safe, every component that went into building the russian embassy in washington, d.c. was x-rayed piece by piece as it was put together, to make sure there was no funny business, there was no cia bugs for the russian embassy. nothing had been inserted into the construction material somehow. that was the russia...