USSR: 60th Anniversary of the Novocherkassk Uprising

Locomotive factory workers in Novocherkassk staged a strike against hated production quotas and increasing food prices. Workers carried portraits of Lenin and Soviet flags. “There was no need to campaign for the strike among the workers of the plant. It was enough for the group which called for a strike to appear, and work stoppedContinue reading “USSR: 60th Anniversary of the Novocherkassk Uprising”

In Honor of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners

Communist-led gay and lesbian activists undercut Margaret Thatcher’s effort to starve NUM miners into submission by seizing donations from their accounts, enabling the miners’ general strike to go on for as long as it did. “Concerning homosexuality, sodomy, and various other forms of sexual gratification, which are set down in European legislation as offenses againstContinue reading “In Honor of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners”

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