Continuing our week of articles and videos in celebration of the centenary anniversay of the 1917 October Revolution, we publish here extracts from John Reed’s article entitled Soviets in Action, in which the American socialist writer describes the workers’ democracy that existed in Russia following the Revolution.

In this talk at a recent day school on the Russian Revolution, Daniel Morley of the Socialist Appeal editorial board discusses the question of revolutionary insurrection, examining how Marxists approach the question of the seizure of power.

In his latest video outlining the key events of 1917, Alan Woods – author of Bolshevism: the Road to Revolution – discusses the October Revolution, when the workers and peasants of Russia seized power.