In the latest video from our In Defence of October series celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, Alan Woods – author of Bolshevism: the Road to Revolution – discusses the events surrounding Lenin’s return to Russia on 16th April 1917.
With his April Theses Lenin sought to rearm the Bolsheviks politically, calling for revolutionaries to break with the liberal Provisional Government and putting forward instead the slogan of “All Power to the Soviets!”
Today is the anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution, which saw the working class seize power for the first time ever. We are republishing a lesser-known article by Lenin, which outlines the theory of permanent revolution in relation to the Russian Revolution.
In this latest episode of Marxist Voice, Ben Gliniecki outlines the economic basis of British imperialism and militarism today, and how communists can fight to overthrow imperialism.
In this podcast, Jack Tye Wilson explains Lenin and the Bolsheviks’ approach to the national question, the colonial revolutions, and the national question today, outlining the need for an internationalist class programme.