"Revolution is a rejoicing for the oppressed and
exploited people"
Ninety years ago the October Socialist Revolution opened a new chapter
in the history of mankind. Since those days which “shook the world” and broke
the world-wide front of imperialism, nothing is left as before.
The importance of the October Revolution, its international
characteristic, lies in the fact that it has marked for the first time the
passage from the old capitalist world to the new socialist world in which the
exploitation of man over man has been abolished.
The October Revolution has shown that it's possible and necessary to
overthrow the imperialist bourgeoisie, that the proletariat can seize power and
rule successfully without and against the bourgeoisie, can build socialism in
spite of capitalist encirclement.
The October Revolution has opened a new age: the age of proletarian
revolution in the capitalist and imperialist countries, of the national and
colonial revolutions made under the proletariat direction and under the banners
of internationalism in dependent countries.
Last century events have shown, against
all the lies of revisionism and opportunism, the world-wide historical
meaning of the October Socialist Revolution. That event has marked and
continues to mark an epochal turning point in the means of struggle and in the
type of organization, mentality, culture, habits, traditions of exploited and
oppressed classes all over the world. Thanks to the Soviet October it has been
accomplished - in the struggle for the
liberation of the working class and peoples from the imperialist exploitation
and oppression - a decisive step up, which
keeps all its value today.
This is why we communists who acknowledge:
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class struggle as the motor power of history;
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proletarian revolution as a necessary form to suppress the old
capitalist relations of production and open the way to the new socialist
society;
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the rightness of F. Engels' words, according to which the revolutionary violence of the masses “is the
tool by which the movement of society is fulfilled and which breaks stiffened
and dead political forms”;
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that the proletariat in the
course of its revolution must throw down the dominion of the bourgeoisie,
deprive it of all its political and economic power, break its State apparatus
and give birth to the proletarian State based on worker and popular Councils;
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that in order to accomplish the tasks of revolution, to build
socialism and to head for communism, the
classless society, is necessary the dictatorship of proletariat, that is the
power of the most revolutionary class among all the classes;
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that it is impossible to get rid of capitalism, without getting rid
of reformism, social democracy and
revisionism;
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the necessity of the Communist Party, indispensable instrument to guide the
masses in the struggle for power and to win;
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the necessity of the struggle against his own imperialism as a first
duty of every internationalist;
we
who are convinced that the present world is laden with revolution, that the
only way out from imperialist barbarity is the socialist revolution, that the
XXI century will be the century of proletarian and popular revolutions, that
the proletarian revolution is a problem which has been set and must be resolved
in our country, too,
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we want to recall, in a joint and militant way, the 90th
anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution, presenting its reasons again
and emphasizing all its relevance to the present day.
The 90th anniversary of the October Revolution comes in a
time of wild anticommunist campaign, of denigration of the historical legacy of
the communist and worker movement, of demonization of revolution and socialism,
of rewriting of history.
The in-depth motives of this campaign are in the general crisis of
capitalism becoming acute, in the impossibility on the part of the dominant
class to give an answer to the material and cultural requirements of the large
masses, in the aim to ideologically and politically disarm the working class
and the popular masses, fearing that their reawakening energies might turn to
proletarian socialism again.
Therefore it is necessary to mark this anniversary in a particular way,
making it up-to-date and binding it to the actual situation, in order:
- to give an answer to the anticommunist offensive of
the bourgeoisie, on which is based every reactionary and fascist movement;
- to denounce the authoritarian legislation aiming at interfering with and
prohibiting the activity of parties and organizations which proclaim themselves
communist, the political criminalization and repression of communists,
revolutionaries, antifascists, under the pretext of “anti-terrorism” measures;
- to defend the
political liberties and the right to existence and legal activity of communists;
- to actively
resist the liquidation of the conquests and political, economical, social and
welfare liberties the working class and popular masses have won with their
struggle for emancipation;
- to struggle
against the imperialist war and the attacks to the peoples, taking sides with
their resistance;
- to struggle
against the bourgeois government in charge and against all the anti-worker and
anti-popular measures taken;
- to struggle
against the shattering of the communist movement and the bourgeois and
petty-bourgeois anti-party ideology, stimulating the process of the unity of
communists.
For all
this we intend to promote a series of activities including:
- the making of a propaganda manifesto;
- the promotion of cultural activities,
concerts, debates after a film;
- a series of meetings and debates at a local
level;
which will come to an end with:
a meeting-debate on the subject «Another world is
possible and necessary: the socialism!», which will take place in
According
to that we invite all communists, advanced workers, revolutionary young people,
anti-imperialist, anti-fascist, true progressive and democrat people, to agree
to our appeal and join our activity in order to build together the various
initiatives for the 90th anniversary of the October Socialist
Revolution.
Promoters: Circolo
Lenin (Catania), Partito dei CARC, Proletari Comunisti, Teoria & Prassi
Adherents: Sindacato
Lavoratori in Lotta,
To join write to: novantesimoanniversario@yahoo.it