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communist party of great britain (marxist-leninist)

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October Revolution highlights

  • Russia / Russian ambassador: October shaped the political, economic and social landscape

    ‘Turning to the lessons of a century ago is extremely important now that international relations are going through truly tectonic shifts.’

    22 Nov 2024 , Proletarian
  • Russia / Zyuganov to Putin: ‘Form a patriotic front against the imperial west!’

    Communist leader urges Russian president to reunite the country’s greatest heroes with the people.

    25 Apr 2023 , CPRF
  • USA / Message to US workers: Britain sending depleted uranium to Ukraine

    The imperialists can seem incredibly powerful, but in fact their dominance is declining and their rule is showing signs of senility and decay.

    10 Apr 2023 ,
  • Venezuela / British delegate in Caracas: ‘Facing the same enemy, we must fight together’

    The world’s anti-imperialist forces are coming together in a way that has not been seen for 70 years.

    12 Mar 2023 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / Book review: The East Was Read by Vijay Prashad

    An excellent collection that reminds us of the urgent need for a cultural renaissance amongst the working and oppressed masses.

    26 Mar 2021 , Lalkar
  • USSR / International communists on the attack against anti-Stalin lies

    Workers will never find courage in their own strength until they have learned to see through the exploiters’ lies about socialism.

    8 Jan 2020 , Proletarian
  • USSR / Stalin and the Bolsheviks of Transcaucasia, part 2

    How the communists led the fight against aggressive nationalism and established peace and socialism in the Caucasus.

    1 Jan 2020 , Lalkar
  • USSR / Why do we celebrate the October Revolution?

    Workers need to take inspiration from the achievements of October; an example that our rulers would prefer us to forget.

    2 Dec 2019 ,
  • USSR / Stalin and the Bolsheviks of Transcaucasia, part 1

    How the revolutionary communists established themselves as the leading force against tsarist oppression in the Caucasus.

    3 Oct 2019 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Challenges facing communists in Britain today

    Objective conditions for the creation of a revolutionary movement are improving, but much work needs to be done to take advantage of those conditions.

    14 Dec 2018 , Proletarian
  • Europe / Prague communists host European conference

    CPGB-ML delegates join revolutionaries from across Europe in affirming that only socialism can save humanity from endless crisis and war.

    27 Nov 2018 ,
  • USSR / October Revolution 101: the future belongs to communism

    October changed the world forever, and the genie can never be put back in the bottle. Only socialism offers a decent future free from crisis, poverty and war.

    7 Nov 2018 ,
  • USSR / Andrei Zhdanov: Principles underlying Soviet literature and art pt 2

    Part two of a biography of an extraordinary servant of the proletariat.

    23 Oct 2018 , Lalkar
  • USSR / October 100: The Red Army choir

    Culture by and for the people, uplifting hearts and spirits, and reinforcing the struggle for socialism.

    25 Aug 2018 , Proletarian
  • USSR / Andrei Zhdanov: On the principles underlying Soviet literature and art

    Part one of a biography of an extraordinary servant of the proletariat.

    1 Aug 2018 , Lalkar
  • USSR / Soviet ballet: dancing the heritage of humanism

    How socialist realism, serving the people, sparked unparalleled creativity.

    27 Jun 2018 , Proletarian
  • USSR / The October Revolution and the east

    How the Russian revolution of 1917 brought socialism to the oppressed peoples of Asia.

    21 Apr 2018 , Proletarian
  • USSR / Josef Stalin, hero of the oppressed

    By his deeds shall he always be known.

    9 Mar 2018 ,
  • Housing / What did the October Revolution do for us? 2. Housing

    The second in our series of articles examining the impact of the October Revolution of 1917 on the lives of workers in Britain.

    1 Aug 2017 , Proletarian
  • USSR / What did the October Revolution do for us? 1. The NHS

    The Great October Revolution, which created the world’s first socialist state, and whose centenary is celebrated this year, brought with it the first ever system of universal provision for all members of society, and amongst the most important of those gains was that of free and complete healthcare.

    1 Dec 2016 , Proletarian
  • USSR / Letter: Follow the road of Great October!

    The October Revolution remains, almost a century later, as humanity’s beacon of hope and inspiration.

    1 Dec 2015 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / Downton Abbey, the Jolly George and Stop the War

    Please, if we ask you nicely, will you? Pretty please?

    1 Oct 2011 , Proletarian

October Revolution topics

  • Anti-imperialism
  • Anti-imperialist Platform
  • British imperialism
  • CPGB-ML
  • Deborah Lavin
  • Fascism
  • Friedrich Engels
  • Godfrey Cremer
  • Harpal Brar
  • Indian liberation struggle
  • Iraq war
  • Iris Cremer
  • Irish liberation struggle
  • IWA
  • Josef Stalin
  • Karl Marx
  • Leninism
  • Libya war
  • Mao Zedong
  • Margaret Thatcher
  • Marxism
  • Miners strike
  • Obituaries
  • October Revolution
  • Racism and immigration
  • Revisionism
  • Trotskyism
  • VI Lenin
  • Zimbabwe liberation struggle
  • Zionism
  • Bourgeois democracy
  • International Working Womens Day
  • Labour party
  • London
  • Manchester
  • Prisons
  • Third International
  • TUC
  • Unemployment
  • Women
  • WW1
  • CP Cuba
  • CP Kenya
  • CPC
  • Isabel Crook
  • NKPJ
  • Opportunism
  • PRCF
  • Social democracy
  • Yugoslav war
  • CPGBML20
  • Planned economy
  • Red Youth
  • Brics
  • October107
  • Anticommunism
  • BBC
  • Colonial crimes
  • Drive to war
  • Eastern Europe
  • Free speech
  • Korean war
  • Media lies
  • Nato
  • Overproduction crisis
  • Poverty
  • US imperialism
  • WW2
  • Cold war
  • DPRK
  • French imperialism
  • Gaza
  • Inequality
  • Inflation
  • Non-cooperation
  • Taiwan
  • Ukraine war
  • War crimes
  • WW3
  • Chinese Revolution
  • German imperialism
  • Arms industry
  • Bristol
  • Justice system
  • Stop the War
  • Antisemitism campaign
  • CIA
  • Lenin 100
  • Philosophy
  • Second International
  • Crisis manifesto
  • Greek revolution
  • Kim Il Sung
  • KKE
  • KPRF
  • Maoism
  • Feudalism
  • Imperialist war
  • Japanese imperialism
  • WMD
  • CPRF
  • Science
  • CPI
  • Summit Against Hypocrisy
  • Workers rights
  • Caribbean
  • Latin America
  • Cuba blockade
  • Cuban Revolution
  • Sandinistas
  • Food industry
  • The state
  • Bolivarian revolution
  • Socialist realism
  • Actually-existing socialism
  • Capitalist crisis
  • Lenin 150
  • Transcaucasia
  • Austerity
  • NHS
  • Victory over fascism
  • Identity politics
  • European Union
  • October 100
  • Eighth congress
  • Asean
  • Ballet
  • Housing crisis
  • Privatisation
  • Letters
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October Revolution video

  • Working-class history / The life and times of Sylvia Pankhurst

    A remarkable woman with a big heart, who devoted herself heart and soul to the cause of the downtrodden and oppressed masses.

    1 Mar 2025,
  • Britain TV / Red youth: Why I joined the CPGB-ML

    Any communist party that is serious must succeed in harnessing, training and directing the energy of our revolutionary youth.

    6 Jan 2025, Proletarian TV
  • World / Joti Brar: The growth of world war and the tasks of anti-imperialists

    There is the real possibility of a wave of critical defeats for the imperialists that could shift the balance of forces decisively in favour of the working masses.

    29 Jul 2024,
  • British politics / Elbit 7 sentenced in Bristol. Where is our ‘Hands off Palestine’ movement?

    The leaders of the antiwar and trade union movements have refused to mobilise their members to prevent ongoing British complicity in a genocide.

    28 Apr 2024,
  • Theory / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: The immortal legacy of VI Lenin

  • USSR / Joti Brar: The essential lessons of October

  • World history / British delegate in Athens: We must learn the lessons of our history

  • Theory / Comrade Joti: Why our rulers hide the truth about socialist science

  • Cuba / Cuban ambassador: We will fight to our last breath with faith in victory!

  • Nicaragua / Nicaraguan minister delivers powerful message: the Sandinista revolution lives!

  • Theory TV / Ella Rule: Lenin on revolutionary theory (What Is To Be Done?)

  • Ukraine / Joti Brar: British people being subjected to a major psyop regarding Ukraine

  • USSR / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: Industrialising the USSR

  • Working-class history / Comrade Ella Rule on socialism and women’s liberation

  • USSR / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: Soviet farming – revolution in the countryside

  • USSR / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: How the October Revolution changed the world

  • Capitalism or communism TV / President Maduro: The significance of the Communist Manifesto

  • USSR / Comrade Harpal: October Revolution message 2020

  • USSR / The NHS is ‘communist’ – we owe it to the October Revolution, not to Labour

  • Capitalism or communism TV / The end of history – or the end of capitalism?

  • Britain TV / Revolution in Britain

  • British history / British communism, 1920-1943

  • Ireland / The Easter Rising of 1916 and the October Revolution of 1917

  • USSR / Soviet preparations for World War Two

  • Britain TV / October 100: Our future is socialism

  • USSR / October 100: Working people have no country – we must win one

  • Cuba / Cuba and the October Revolution

  • Laos / Laos independence and the October Revolution

  • USSR / October 100: Women’s liberation

  • USSR / October 100: Why does it matter?

  • World TV / October 100: DPR Korea pays tribute

  • World TV / Mohamed Hassan: Imperialism is rampant but October is our future

October Revolution theory

  • Working-class history / Obituary: Harpal Brar, revolutionary founder of the CPGB-ML

    Sixty years of dedicated service to the anti-imperialist movement by an outstanding revolutionary have left a lasting legacy for the British working class.

    5 Mar 2025, Lalkar
  • British politics / Comrade Harpal Brar: a life entirely dedicated to the cause of socialism

    Our party’s founding chair has died, but his work lives on in a new generation of revolutionaries, both in Britain and around the world.

    26 Feb 2025, Proletarian
  • World history / Josef Stalin on the Labour party and Nato

    ‘The Labour government has agreed to turn Britain into a military and air base for the United States of America to attack the Soviet Union.’

    5 Sep 2024, Lalkar
  • USSR / JV Stalin: Trotskyism or Leninism?

    Josef Stalin’s decisive answer to the lies about October 1917 that Trotsky began to peddle straight after Lenin’s death in 1924.

    28 Jun 2024,
  • USSR / Stalin – the History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo, pt 3

    Those who are in the business of fighting for the victory of socialism are duty-bound to make a study of the real Stalin, a giant in the history of our movement.

  • USSR / Stalin – the History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo, pt 2

    What is the truth about the commonly rehashed legends of the ‘gulag archipelago’ and of systematic antisemitism during the time of Stalin’s leadership?

  • USSR / Stalin – the History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo, pt 1

    Domenico Losurdo is one of the small minority of historians and thinkers who have the courage and candour to swim against the tide.

  • Theory / Lenin’s work remains a guide for our time: an introduction

    What is it about VI Lenin and his work that remains so essential to the working class a century after his death?

  • USSR / Lenin’s work remains a guide for our time

    What are some of the key lessons we need to take from Lenin and the Bolsheviks in the coming period of rising revolutionary struggle?

  • World history / On the current state and problems of the communist movement

    What are the lessons communists need to learn in order to fulfil their historic role in the coming period of increased class struggle and deepening imperialist crisis?

  • World history / Lessons of 1914: Imperialism means war

    Reams of WW1 historiography serve only to conceal the essence of that terrible conflagration – which gave birth in its turn to the era of proletarian revolution.

  • USSR / Chinese Marxist: The evaluation of Stalin is essentially an ideological struggle

    Ever since Khrushchev, when any revisionist or bourgeois ideologue wants to attack socialism, they first attack Josef Stalin, great architect of Soviet socialism.

  • USSR / Stalin: A great servant of mankind who belongs to the ages

    Truly, his name and his works will live on through the centuries.

  • USSR / The fight against bureaucracy in the Soviet Union under Stalin

    What do we mean when we talk about bureaucracy? How did it manifest in the Soviet Union? What was done by Stalin and the Bolsheviks to counteract it?

  • USSR / Marxism v liberalism: HG Wells talks to Stalin

    ‘If Roosevelt makes a real attempt to satisfy the interests of the proletarian class, the capitalists will put another president in his place.’

  • USSR / Harpal Brar: Long live Leninism!

    Why does Lenin hold such an honoured position in the lexicon of socialist leaders? A century later, what can we learn from his teachings?

  • Working-class history / Lessons of the Communist (Third) International

    What can workers today learn from the experience of the Comintern?

  • Housing / Housing and architecture in the Soviet Union

    A variety of housing was built for working people designed to reflect the varied character, climate and context of the vast territories of the USSR.

  • USSR / VI Lenin: Report on the tasks of Soviet power

    Speech by Lenin to the first meeting of the Petrograd soviet of workers’ and soldiers’ deputies after the revolution, 7 November 1917.

  • USSR / VI Lenin: To workers, soldiers and peasants!

    Decree issued by the second all-Russia congress of soviets of workers’ and soldiers’ deputies immediately after the revolution, 7 November 1917.

  • USSR / October 1917: the defining event of our epoch

    What is the significance of the events in Russia one hundred years ago for workers in Britain today?

  • USSR / VI Lenin: The immediate tasks of the Soviet government

    Excerpt from the pamphlet by V I Lenin, written in April 1918.

  • USSR / JV Stalin: The tasks of economic executives

    Excerpt from Stalin’s speech to the first all-union conference of leading personnel of socialist industry, February 1931.

  • USSR / One hundred years of International Women’s Day

    The women who showed the way forward – and the work we have still to do.

  • Theory / The dictatorship of the proletariat

    What kind of state will the workers need after the socialist revolution?

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