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Russian Revolution

105 years since the Bolsheviks-led Revolution – when the working class took power

November 7, 2022 Peter Taaffe

The 1917 ‘October Revolution’ in Russia, which took place on 5 November by the old Russian calendar, has spawned countless books and articles, many of the written from the point of view of defenders of […]

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104th anniversary of the Russian Revolution – a world-historic event

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Today, 7 November, marks the 104th anniversary of the Russian Revolution – a world-historic event. The October revolution led to a huge transformation of the former repressive Czarist Empire – politically, economically, culturally, and also […]

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In defence of the Russian Revolution

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Today marks the 102nd anniversary of the Russian Revolution, a world-historic event. The October revolution led to a huge transformation of the former repressive Czarist Empire – politically, economically, culturally, and also concerning questions of […]

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Russia, October 1917: When workers took power

October 25, 2017 Hannah Sell, from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party England & Wales)

With monotonous predictability the centenary of the Russian revolution has led to an outpouring of bile – not aimed in the main at the ‘acceptable’ February revolution – but at October. A cacophony of slander […]

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Russian Revolution: Socialist Party video – Peter Taaffe counters media lies

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A documentary on the BBC has heaped lies and distortions on the Russian Revolution. Socialist Party general secretary Peter Taaffe answers these attacks on the real revolutionary legacy of October 1917.        

Russian Revolution

The legacy of October 1917

October 12, 2017 Peter Taaffe, from Socialism Today (monthly journal of the Socialist Party (CWI) England & Wales)

To mark the centenary of the Russian revolution, Izquierda Revolucionaria (CWI Spain) has translated into Spanish John Reed’s classic book, Ten Days that Shook the World. In this introduction to the book, Peter Taaffe explains […]

Russian Revolution

BBC dramatises John Reed’s classic, ‘Ten Days that Shook the World’

October 10, 2017 CWI

BBC radio four is broadcasting, starting 9 October ,10 programmes (over two weeks) a dramatised version of John Reed’s classic book about the Russian Revolution, ‘Ten Days That Shook The World’.

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