The Workers' Opposition
Minsk Fine Cloth Combine; directors Viktor Arbuzov and Yakov Vishnevsky, listen and explain to workers' complaints. Photo by Yuri Ivanov. Graphic changes by Brian Baggins.

Contents:

Introduction
Individual or Collective Management?
The Trade Unions: Their Role & Problems
On Bureaucracy & Self-activity of The Masses
Appendix: Background on the Workers Opposition




Written: early 1921
First Published: Pravda, January 25, 1921. The text was banned in Soviet Russia in March of 1921, by resolution of the 10th Congress of the Communist Party.
Source: Solidarity (London) Pamphlet no.7, 1961; taken from the original English publication: Workers ' Dreadnought (by Sylvia Pankhurst), April 22 - August 19, 1921.
Translated: from the Russian
Transcription/Markup: Class Against Class / Brian Baggins
Copyleft: Kollantai Internet Archive (marxists.org) 2002. Permission is granted to copy and/or distribute this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.