09.11.1995

Ten thousand acclaim Soviet Russia

From ‘The Communist’, paper of the Communist Party of Great Britain, November 11 1920

THE THIRD anniversary of the Russian Soviet Republic was brilliantly celebrated at the Albert Hall on Sunday November 7 ...

Arthur McManus took the chair, and in a rousing speech heartily acclaimed “the greatest event that history has recorded, the Russian Revolution of 1917 ... It demonstrated to the working class, men and women, that there is something bigger than the nationalism that inflamed all countries in 1914.”

JF Hodgson then moved the resolution ... He also spoke of the achievements of the Russian Revolution ... “We have been slow to come to their aid, but they will continue to hold on until finally the workers of the whole world will join in a combined attack against the forces of capitalism” ...

CL Malone MP ... graphically proved the futility of constitutional methods in bringing about a social revolution ... Malone expressed the hope that the near future may witness an assembly in this hall of delegates of the first congress of workers, sailors and soldiers ...

Tom Bell keenly advocated the formation of a strong Communist Party that would not merely be the playground of the dilettanti and the intellectuals, but a Party of action ...

Cathal O’Shannon ... described most movingly the awful anguish of Ireland ...

He was applauded with great enthusiasm