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A variety of housing was built for working people designed to reflect the varied character, climate and context of the vast territories of the USSR. Katt Cremer Subscribe to our  channel View of Lenin Avenue in Sverdlovsk, 1936, showing the scale of the new town and the incorporation of public spaces lined with trees. https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/845307736&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true This article is the second of two presentations to the Stalin Society. This contribution follows from my previous presentation, which looked at the sheer scale of the housing problem that the Bolsheviks faced after taking power in the October Revolution of 1917...

No cooperation with union-busting anti-strike laws!  Proletarian writers Subscribe to our  channel What is needed is not paper resolutions, lobbying of MPs and legal challenges, but an active and mass campaign of resistance to overturn all anti-trade-union laws in Britain by making them unworkable. Arthur Scargill was right 25 years ago when he coined the slogan: ‘Defy the anti-trade-union laws!’ The TUC one-day rally against the new anti-strike law, whilst welcome in itself, falls woefully short of giving any kind of a lead to a working class that has been for so long starved of socialist leadership. The harmless-sounding Minimum Service Bill currently being pushed through Parliament is in fact an outright declaration of war against the workin...

An email campaign to reverse anti-union laws? Really? Proletarian writers Subscribe to our  channel It is only through a campaign of mass non-cooperation, which makes anti-union laws unworkable in practice, that our rulers will be forced to rescind the whole panoply of legislation that ties workers’ hands and stops them from taking effective action in defence of living standards and working conditions. The right to strike is the only meaningful right that workers can have under the capitalist system. And, since no gain is ever permanent under conditions of permanent class war, it has had to be defended many times in the last two centuries. With the new legislation about to be passed by our rulers, the array of anti-union legislation in Britain will put workers her...

It’s time for the hoary old myth about wages causing inflation to be put to bed. Higher wages lead to lower profits, hence the bosses’ opposition. Party leaflet Subscribe to our  channel Even as the government rushes through anti-strike legislation, disputes over pay and conditions are spreading, with teachers and Amazon workers the latest to join the fray. Download this leaflet as a pdf. With the cost of living soaring, public services falling apart and anger growing, our rulers are blaming, in equal measure, the workers (for daring to defend their wages) and Vladimir Putin (for daring to resist Nato). Tory chair Nadhim Zahawi recently blamed both, declaring that nurses have chosen the ‘wrong time’ to strike over po...