Russian Revolution
The democratic aspirations of October 1917 continue to inspire today
November 6, 2017John Reed, the great American labor journalist and a founder of the Communist Party USA, was the first to bring this country the news of what had happened in Russia on November 7, 1917. In his...
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This week in history: Centennial of the October Revolution in Russia
November 6, 2017This week we publish the poem “October” by Anatoly Borisovich Marienhof (or Mariengof in Russian), who lived from 1897 to 1962.
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Eisenstein’s “Ten Days That Shook the World” screens in L.A.
November 3, 2017As the grand finale to the Ten Films That Shook the World film series , the Los Angeles Workers Center and Hollywood Progressive present Sergei Eisenstein's 1927 revolutionary classic.
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Economic aid and anti-imperialist solidarity: Legacies of the socialist bloc
October 25, 2017Lenin argued you can't fight for socialism and against capitalism without fighting also against imperialism. It's a legacy of the Russian Revolution that still survives.
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The October Revolution and the “National-Colonial Question”
October 17, 2017The October Revolution dared to pose questions that most revolutionaries in imperial states had avoided like the plague. But with the demise of the USSR, its lessons have been largely forgotten.
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