accounts
Archive of accounts with radicals and working class activists on libcom.org.
Lenin, Also - Ante Ciliga
Chapter 9 of Book 3 of Ante Ciliga's extraordinary book The Russian Enigma, originally published as In The Land of The Great Lie.
The book details Ciliga's time spent in Soviet Prisons and "isolaters" following his arrest for belonging to the Trotskyist Opposition, and provides a wealth of important documentary information concerning the miserable conditions in which the working class were reduced to living in, the extent of the 'criminalisation' of large swathes of the population,and the various forms in which resistance ap
Faceless Resistance - Everyday resistance at a Swedish bakery
Tales of work and struggle in a large Swedish bakery under threat from closure.
For almost two years I was employed at a bakery in southern Sweden, together with about 160 others; bakers, cleaners and mechanics included. From the first day of work, I was told that the bakery was under the threat to be closed down, and, indeed, with time, we got dismissed and the bakery shut down.
