“Cut up Khrushchev for sausages!” A history lesson for The New York Times - Simon Pirani
Submitted by Dan Radnika on Sep 27 2015 19:22
This recent article by Simon Pirani both provides more information about the Novocherkassk revolt and massacre and also some insight into how worker revolts in the days of the Soviet Union are still being shamelessly mirepresented in even the most "respected" Western media outlets.
Polmaise: the fight for a pit - John McCormack and Simon Pirani
Submitted by Dan Radnika on Mar 21 2015 15:08
This short book/pamphlet was originally published in 1989. It was written by John McCormack, a miner (and NUM delegate) from the Polmaise pit in Scotland, with the the help of Simon Pirani.
Fighting back in Ukraine - Oleg Dubrovskii with Simon Pirani
Submitted by Dan Radnika on Apr 8 2014 20:22
This short pamphlet was put together by Simon Pirani in 1996/7 from a series of interviews with Ukrainian worker activist Oleg Dubrovskii. It’s of general interest in relation to the way that life for the workers changed when the old Soviet Union disintegrated, but also provides some useful background information to what’s happening in the Ukraine today.
The break-up of the WRP: from the horse’s mouth - Simon Pirani
Submitted by Steven. on Feb 3 2013 13:50
An account by one of its former activists of the breakup of the UK Trotskyist group Workers Revolutionary Party following widespread sexual abuse by its leader, Gerry Healy in the mid-1980s. Trigger warning for discussion of sexual abuse.
The Russian revolution in retreat, 1920-24: Soviet workers and the new communist elite - Simon Pirani
Submitted by subprole on Apr 14 2011 13:58
This critically acclaimed book, published in 2008, focuses on the retreat from the revolution’s aims in 1920-24, after the end of the civil war – and specifically, on the turbulent relationship between the working class and the Communist Party in those years.
