Strikes halt Russian car pIants
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have dismayed both the Kremlin bureaucracy and the imperialists.
For the Stalinist leaders, the strikes-beginning among factory bus drivers, but apparently spreading into the 370,000 workforce in the two plants-indicate that the Soviet working class is increasingly willing , to resist the attacks on its living standards brought about by the bureaucratically mismanaged nationalised economy.
These are precisely the kind of class movements which the bureaucracy has hoped to forestall with its vicious repression of isolated petty bourgeois dissidents and of the small numbers of socialists who have fought for free trade unions in the USSR and in Eastern Europe.
Imperialist leaders who under the guise of 'human rights so readily espouse the cause of capitalist-leaning intellectual oppositionists in the Soviet Union are unlikely. argue strongly in defence of the right to strike.
The very last thing the bourgeoisie wish to see is a mobilis. ation of the toiling masses in the Soviet Union in struggles that could bring about the political overthrow of the Kremlin bureaucracy and the resurgence of a government based on workers' councils.