'Communists should have largeness of mind and should be staunch and active, looking upon the interests of the revolution as their very life and subordinating their personal interests to those of the revolution; always and everywhere they should adhere to principle and wage a tireless struggle against all incorrect ideas and actions, so as to consolidate the collective life of the Party and strengthen the ties between the Party and the masses; they should be more concerned about the Party and the masses than about any private person, and more concerned about others than about themselves. Only thus can they be considered Communists.' Mao Zedong
Today is the 103rd anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution and the 141st birthday of comrade L.D. Trotsky, one of the revolution’s leaders and the founder of the Soviet Red Army.
“The workers’ state must be taken as it has emerged from the merciless laboratory of history and not as it is imagined by a ‘socialist’ professor, reflectively exploring his nose with his finger. It is the duty of revolutionists to defend every conquest of the working class even though it may he distorted by the pressure of hostile forces. Those who cannot defend old positions will never conquer new ones.”
Cuban ceremony celebrates the 103th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, November 7, 2020.
At the memorial that honors the memory of Soviet internationalists, representatives of MINFAR, ICAP, and ambassadors of the embassies of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan came together.
All Power to the Soviets: a resource on the Russian Revolution
Nov. 7, 2020, is the 103nd anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution in Russia, which marked the beginning of the era of socialist revolutions and national liberation.
The website “All Power to the Soviets,” assembled throughout the revolution’s centenary in 2017, is a great resource on this world historic event that continues to inspire revolutionary workers and oppressed peoples around the world.
The Bolsheviks fought pogroms with guns in hand. Lenin waged war on racism. He enriched Marxism by teaching that workers in the big capitalist countries had to support revolts in the colonies.
Lenin proposed to raise the insurrection in the days of the Democratic Conference. At the end of September he considered any delay not only dangerous but fatal. “Waiting for the Congress of Soviets,” he wrote at the beginning of October, “is a childish toying with formalities – a shameful toying with formalities, betrayal of the revolution.” It is not likely, however, that anybody among the…
Speech by José Ramón Machado Ventura, second secretary of the Party Central Committee and a vice president of the Councils of State and Ministers, in the political-cultural act to mark the centennial of the Great October Socialist Revolution, held at Havana’s Karl Marx Theater, November 7, 2017.
Compañero Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the PCC Central Committee;
Demonstrations, meetings and cultural events celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution took place around the world in early November 2017. Here is a small sampling of the many thousands of actions large and small held in every country.
Dhaka, Bangladesh Photo: Socialist Party of Bangladesh
Detroit, U.S. Photo: Workers World Party – Michigan
November 11: A river of red flags pours over the streets of Rome, the square crowded with 5,000 workers, unemployed and students mobilized alongside the Communist Party (PC) and the Communist Youth Front (FGC) against the anti-popular policies of the government, for Italy exiting the EU and NATO, to win the power of the workers. One hundred years after the Great Soviet…
