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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
Pamphlets
1917: Russian Revolution

Revolutionary Perspectives #34

Winter 2005 (Series 3)

Editorial
US Election – Four More Years of the Same
Iraq: War, Elections and Class Struggle
Middle East: New Palestinian President, Old Problems Remain
China: Growing Economy, Growing Tensions
Ukraine: A Case of Imperialist Confrontation
"A Majestic Prologue" – The Russian Revolution of 1905
Gruppe Internationaler SozialistInnen Berlin Meeting
Correspondence: Communist Consciousness and Democracy
Tsunami: The Disaster is Capitalism

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Revolutionary Perspectives #33

Autumn 2004 (Series 3)

Editorial
European Social Forum – How do we Fight Capitalism?
Sudan: Genocide Today, Oil Tomorrow
Iraq: US Strategy in Tatters
Saudi Arabia About to Explode
Beslan: Another Episode of the Great Game
Class Struggle
Towards a German Section of the IBRP
A Built-in Failure: Capitalism and the Housing Question
The Matteotti Murder and Oil
Review: Fahrenheit 9/11

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2021-04-19 Documents Class Struggle and Gender Trouble
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2021-01-11 Documents Storming of the Capitol: The Working Class Has its Own Battles to Fight
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2019-11-01 Documents Precarity and the 'Gig Economy'
2019-10-30 Documents Global Protests: The Relentless Capitalist Crisis Demands the Overthrow of the System
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2019-10-14 Documents Forty Years Since the Death of Onorato Damen
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2019-10-12 Documents The Turkish Invasion of Syria
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