Against Empire Chapter 7: Worthy Causes

Welcome to The Workers Reading Room, this reading is Michael Parentis Against Empire, Chapter 7: Worthy Causes.

All art in the slideshow comes from a Soviet art group on Vkontakte with admin permission. The paintings are in the following order, with the man at the desk as number 1:

1.Baskakov Nikolai Nikolaevich (1918-1993) Portrait of the journalist Vianor Kirillov 1989
2.Buchkin Dmitry Petrovich (1927) Build new cities 1974
3.Frolov Sergey Kuzmich (1924-1998) Cafe Saigon 1966
4.Iryna Vasilievna Shevandronova (1928-1993) At the doctor's appointment. Altai
5.Likhachev Mikhail Ivanovich (1919-1997) Family of a tractor driver 1971
6.Maximov Konstantin Mefodevich (1913-1993) Thirst 1971
7.Peng Yudel (Yehuda) Moiseevich (1854-1937) Shoemaker-Komsomol member 1925
8.Skubko-Karpas Lyudmila Lvovna (1923-2012) Paramedic of the village Sokolov Pustyn 1987
9.Vasily Aleksandrovich Tevyashov (1958) On the way 1986
10.Veselovsky Leonid Nikolaevich (1884-1942) Interior of the kitchen of a collective farmer 1937

Outro music is “Workers of all countries unite!” by the Canadian Cultural Workers Committee