This writer obviously wrote the article 10 years ago, but it is especially relevant on the 100th anniversary of this great event. First, let me address a few remarks about the larger organization with which this website is associated, the International Marxist Tendency.
There are a number of names and projects associated with the International Marxist Tendency which is as stated an international organization to advance the study of Marxism with a particular focus on Leon Trotsky, and it appears to me to be based largely in Britain. Their main website is In Defense of Marxism, their main writers and speakers are Alan Woods and Ted Grant (deceased). I have read several of their books and have been impressed with their accuracy in presenting historical materials related to Marxism and to the Russian Revolution.
The organization should not be confused with the US Trotskyist organization called the International Committee of the Fourth International which is based in Detroit, Michigan, USA. The latter's website is World Socialist Web Site. I do not favor either one over the other. Both do very good work in presenting a Marxist perspective on world events.
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The tremendous impact of the Russian October Revolution was due to one irrefutable fact: the working class, for the first time in history, had captured state power and used it to overthrow the existing order and transform society and existing social relations. Nobody will ever be able to erase this powerful fact from the memory of humanity. The October Revolution was not artificially engineered by a clandestine terrorist organization as many historical revisionists have attempted to claim; on the contrary, it was one of the most popular revolutions in history. The working class whole-heartedly supported it, as was shown by the courageous behavior of the Petrograd sailors and soldiers, that is, workers and peasants in uniform.
