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The Vietnam War – a 17-hour documentary recently broadcast on the BBC – may well be the best such film yet produced on this still-controversial subject. Steve Jones reviews this incredible new documentary and the graphic account it provides of one of imperialism’s most brutal wars.
The first few months following the 1917 October Revolution in Russia were a frantic period for the new Soviet government of workers and peasants. Lenin and the Bolsheviks spent much of this time issuing decrees and appeals, designed to put their programme into effect and further win over the hearts and minds of the masses. James Kilby looks at the opening months of Soviet power.
On Friday 1st December, dozens of trade union activists gathered in the East Ham Working Men’s Club to commemorate the 45th anniversary of that famous labour movement victory, the Pentonville Five. Ben Gliniecki reports on the contributions made, including by speakers such as Len McCluskey, and the lessons of this historic struggle for today.
Continuing our series of articles and videos celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, Rob Sewell, editor of Socialist Appeal, answers the myths and distortions put forward by bourgeois academic and historian Orlando Figes in his recently re-released book, A People’s Tragedy.
We continue our week of articles and videos celebrating the centenary anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution with this video talk by Alan Woods.
No other event in human history has been the subject of more distortions, falsehoods and fabrications than the Russian Revolution. We publish here Alex Grant’s list of the 10 biggest downright lies about Lenin, the Bolsheviks, and the 1917 October Revolution – and the truth behind the myths.
Speaking at the recent October Revolution festival in London (on 20th October 2017) to mark the centenary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, Esteban Volkov – Leon Trotsky’s grandson and director of the Trotsky Museum in Mexico – discusses the significance of the Revolution, 100 years on.
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.
Continuing our week of articles and videos celebrating the centenary anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution, Ben Curry discusses the build up to the insurrection on 25th October (7th November in the new calendar) and the decisive role played by Lenin in the debates surrounding the question of whether the time was right for the soviets to seize power.
This week marks the 100th anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution in Russia, which took place on the night of 7th November (25th October in the old calendar). To mark this great historic event, we are publishing articles and videos all week looking at different aspects of the Revolution. To begin, we publish here an account of the insurrection as it happened.