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Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–1988

Workers' Jubilee 1977

Red Weekly No. 187, 17 February 1977 · p. 12 of the scan · 452 words

The scan: rw-no187-feb-17-1977.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 12 of the scan

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Just as ironic is the author of the note to the United Nations Sanctions Committee alerting it to Russian activities - the Government is only worried about the affront to its It has never shown the slightest inclination For those who may not have noticed, 1977 is the twenty fifth anniversarv of the accession of Queen Elizabeth Il to the throne. The media have made sure that nobody forgets the tact. Ine tirst day or the year gav people the chance to be bored solid with seven hours of historic BBC ilm" of the 1953 Coronation with the Queen and hangers-on waving to the assembled crowds The Press is spewing out glossy magazines, old newspapers and special photos or the Queen complete with corgis. no dount in te nex the brewery commemorative beer at 36p per ½ pint. This outpouring of publicity has not only the added virtue of making a few people a great deal of money out also in casis noden onlain reassens me lasas or reseect an knowing one's place — on your knees Red Weekly also intends to celebrate a jubilee this year. 1977 is the sixtieth anniversary of the Russian revolution. The seizure of power by the Russian workers and peasants sixty years ago has made a greater lor over will Go we dolourine press anane evision we devote the ensurino ine mostencient use or ourresources. inis is norexuavacant. nv to reminding the working class here and abroad of those days when millions of workers and peasants took history into their own hands This task falls on the shoulders of the workers movement, and for that For me Russian revoon on storming of the Winter Palace and the seizure of power in November.

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worth remembering not an empty ocar DuE soners inrovon ov workers ane peasants win e saders ora revouonar party. Those few months that shook the world and sent shivers down the Yes of the ruling class contain valuable lessons for the movement understood the need to organise itself, through such bodies as the workers commissions and popular assemblies, as the Russian people did in the Soviets.

The Russian revolution is not just part of history; in It there is also a vision of the future. In some small way it is hoped that Red Weekly's celebration of this jubilee will. through learning from that history, bring that vision closer to realisation. hee veery will be carving a recuiar weekly column trachne revolution is not simply a that struggle that can be carried particularly in Spain and Portugal, the working class has

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