At a market in the industrial town of Lysychansk in east Ukraine war-scarred after relentless attacks by Russian forces one woman quietly hopes Moscow's army will break through.
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Stakhanovite models of high performance in the workplace, named after Soviet miner Alexei Stakhanov, have become the standard of the work ethic he embodied then – which spread all over the USSR – and has been invoked by managers in the west ever since.
Jeffrey Kopstein argues how the everyday resistance of East German workers could wear down a despotic state over four decades until it was eventually overthrown.
Gilles Dauvé critically examines the idea that previous revolutions failed due to them viewing communism as being the affirmation of labour as opposed to being anti-work.