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Party, Class and Soviets in the October Revolution (Second Edition, November 2007)

In this short history we cannot do full justice to the vitality of the Russian proletariat of 1917. What we have tried to show is that in its historically-discovered form of government, the soviets, it gave a lasting gain for the working class everywhere and how, despite its inevitable subjective errors (much magnified by our class enemy), the Bolshevik Party became a genuinely revolutionary instrument of the Russian proletariat.

1917 - Introduction
1917 - February: The Working Class Against Imperialist War
1917 - Dual Power: First Step on the Road to International Revolution
1917 - The July Days - “The Party Must Remain with the Masses”
1917 - The Kornilov Affair Mobilises the Masses
1917 - The Proletariat Takes Power
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1917: Russian Revolution

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2016-09-26 Documents Against All Nationalisms
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2016-05-13 Documents Ecuador: Against the Attacks of Capital and the State
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2015-10-11 Documents UK Housing: A System That's Rabidly Insane
2015-10-08 Documents Greece: For the 20 September Election
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2015-10-02 Battaglia Comunista We are Against Capitalism
2015-09-20 Documents The Revolutionary Process between Capitalism and Communism
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2015-09-08 Documents Zimmerwald: Lenin Leads the Struggle of the Revolutionary Left for a New International
2015-08-31 Prometeo Turkey, ISIS, Gas and the Shifting Imperialist Balance
2015-08-15 Documents Internationalist Comrades’ Statement on the 5th July Referendum
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2015-07-21 Documents Greece - Notes Following the July 5 Referendum
2015-07-10 Documents Greece - Solidarity with the Workers not the Capitalist Government!
2015-07-10 Documents The Great Myth of Magna Carta
2015-07-05 Documents On the Greek Referendum

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