November 8, 2012
'Russia will be free and socialist!'

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Resolution of the “Red March”

Moscow, November 7, 2012 

In a country where 95 years ago the people accomplished the Great October Revolution, which marked the beginning of construction of the first socialist, truly fair state, freed from centuries of oppression and gave unprecedented rights and freedoms, the current power of capital tends to impose on society a sense of permanence to this inhumane system. 

In this system, people have to be forever divided into “masters of life” and submissive “slaves.” A tiny part of the population of Russia will accumulate enormous wealth and sink in the world of luxury. The vast majority will be forced to live in poverty, ignorance, drunkenness and a spiritual wilderness. 

The ideological justification for the ruling elite’s plan is religious obscurantism and an endless search for external and internal enemies. There are more and more restrictions, tougher penalties for information dissemination and retrieval, and the simple expression of citizenship. 

The political regime in Russia is moving toward a tightening dictatorship! Every day brings new reports of searches, interrogations and repression of civic activists. Dozens of our comrades are already languishing in the dungeons on absurd charges. 

All this is happening in a country of great thinkers and scientists. Today, we are back to fight for the ideals of the October Revolution. For the right to work and leisure, the right to education and health care, the right to free choice of profession, freedom of conscience and freedom of speech, equality of sexes, and elimination of discrimination based on nationality. Again, as in the days of serfdom and absolute monarchy, the left raises the sacred banner of struggle of all oppressed for freedom and equality. Once again, we are threatened by police brutality and prison. But we are confident that the darkness will not rule forever. 

Russia will be free and socialist! 

We say:

- The ideas of the October Revolution did not suffocate! 
- Russia without the bourgeoisie! 
- Authority of the millions, not the millionaires! 
- Down with the police state! 
- Freedom to political prisoners! 
- There will be a new October!

Translation by redguard

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November 7, 2012

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November 7, 2012

Today while people are celebrating the election of the imperialist tyrant Opama, remember that on this same day in 1917 workers showed what what power and possibility workers have when they bypass bourgeois electoral politics, and seize power as a class. Long live the October Revolution!

November 7, 2011
Zizek on Lenin

“In February 1917 Lenin was an almost anonymous political emigrant,
stranded in Zurich, with no reliable contacts to Russia, mostly learning
about the events from the Swiss press; in October 1917 he led the first
successful socialist revolution - so what happened in between? In February,
Lenin immediately perceived the revolutionary chance, the result of unique
contingent circumstances - if the moment was not seized, the chance for the
revolution would be forfeited, perhaps for decades. In his stubborn insistence
that one should take the risk and go on to the next stage - that is,
repeat the revolution - he was alone, ridiculed by the majority of the
Central Committee members of his own party; this selection of his texts
endeavours to provide a glimpse into the obstinate, patient - and often
frustrating - revolutionary work through which Lenin imposed his vision.
Indispensable as Lenin’s personal intervention was, however, we should not
change the story of the October Revolution into the story of the lone genius
confronted with the dis orientated masses and gradually imposing his vision.
Lenin succeeded because his appeal, while bypassing the Party nomenklatura, found an echo in what I am tempted to call revolutionary micropolitics:
the incredible explosion of grass-roots democracy, of local committees
sprouting up all around Russia’s big cities and, ignoring the authority of
the “legitimate” government, taking matters into their own hands. This is
the untold story of the October Revolution, the obverse of the myth of the
tiny group of ruthless dedicated revolutionaries which accomplished a coup
d’etat.”
-Zizek

November 7, 2011
Let the red flag fly! Long live the October Revolution!

Let the red flag fly! Long live the October Revolution!

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