Workers' Group | |
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| Leader | Gavril Myasnikov |
| Founded | February 1923 |
| Dissolved | c. 1930 |
| Preceded by | Workers' Opposition |
| Headquarters | Moscow |
| Newspaper | The Workers' Way to Power |
| Ideology | Left communism Council communism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| National affiliation | Russian Communist Party |
| International affiliation | Communist Workers' International |
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The Workers Group of the Russian Communist Party (Russian: Рабочая группа РКП, romanized: Rabochaya gruppa RKP) was formed in 1923 to oppose the excessive power of bureaucrats and managers in the new soviet society and in the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). Its leading member was Gavril Myasnikov.[1]
The Workers Group defended that the Soviet state and public enterprises should be run by soviets elected from the workplace and that the New Economic Policy (NEP) was in danger of becoming a "New Exploitation of the Proletariat" if not controlled by the workers' democracy.
Its main activists were arrested in September 1923, and the group's activity was largely suppressed thereafter, although it continued to exist until the 1930s, inside prisons and possibly also underground.
- ^ Jeffries, Peter, ed. (1975). "5. The Thirteenth Party Conference January 16–18, 1924". Documents of the 1923 opposition. London: New Park. ISBN 0902030639. OCLC 476379734. Retrieved 22 June 2020.