The Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Colony was an experiment in workers' control in the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1926 during the New Economic Policy. It was based in Shcheglovsk, Kuzbass, Siberia.
Seal of the Kuzbass AIC, which features a design inspired by Industrial Workers of the World artwork
The Industrial Workers of the World, whose members are nicknamed "Wobblies", is an international labor union founded in Chicago, Illinois, United States, in 1905. Its ideology combines general unionis
Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Colony
…a proposal to establish a colony of foreign workers and specialists in Kuzbass. They met with Lenin in Moscow in September 1921. On behalf of the Industrial Workers of the World, this group expressed its desire to commission the Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant and part of the Kuznetsk Basin in Siberia and the Urals, to organize…
Big Bill Haywood and office workers in the IWW General Office, Chicago, summer 1917
A Wobbly membership card, or "red card"
1914 IWW demonstration in New York City
Workers being forcibly marched away from Bisbee into the desert