RUSSIA: Fifth Anniversary

Five years ago "the red flag of organized international revolt against capital was raised over proletarian Russia" by Lenin in the Kremlin at Moscow. It was the birthday of the Communist (Third) Internationale.

To celebrate the fifth anniversary, the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party in Russia issued a manifesto "to all workers and toilers." The manifesto was described as being "rather a tame document." It points out that the Internationale has grown from small beginnings to a "world force before which the bourgeoisie everywhere shrinks and trembles"; it also refers...

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