The Russian Revolution of October 1917 was unique. It was the only time in history when workers themselves took over the running of the state in a conscious attempt to build socialism. The fact…
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In July 1914 the First World War broke out and at the same time a new epoch in history began. Until 1914 the workers of Europe had given their allegiance to the Social Democratic parties which…
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"Nobody Previously Thought, or Could Have Thought, of a Dual Power."
On April 3rd, 1917, Lenin returned to Russia from political exile in Switzerland. The “popular uprising” (the…
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In winning the battle against the “Old Bolsheviks”, Lenin and his supporters had successfully “rearmed” the Bolshevik Party. It now had a new programme which corresponded to the…
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As we saw when looking at the July Days the Bolsheviks were able to survive the post-July repression because of their firm roots within the working class. However, for those looking for easy…
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"On the evening of October 24th the Provisional Government had at its disposal little more than 25,000 men. On the evening of October 25th, when preparations were underway for the storming of…
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We are reproducing here some of the articles which our comrades in the Internationalist Communist Party (Battaglia Comunista) published during and after the events in Hungary (and also Poland -…
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(From Prometeo Series IV # 10, December 1986 - Translated by the CWO in 2006)
1986 is a year of anniversaries and memories which, though sad, are rich in lessons for the proletariat: it is…