Vol. 9, Issue : 11
November 2017
In commemoration of the Centenary of the
Great October Socialist Revolution
The Central Committee of CPI(ML) organised
a mass rally and public meeting on the occasion of
100 years of Great October Socialist Revolution of
Russia on 7 th November 2017 at Vijayawada,
Andhra Pradesh.
Five thousand people from various districts of
AP and from other states like Tamil Nadu, Odisha,
Kerala, Karnataka, and Maharashtra and Delhi
came here to participate in the programme.
The mass rally began after paying floral tributes
to the great leader Lenin to his statue erected at
the heart of the city. The statue of Lenin was
presented to Vijayawada city by the people of
USSR. The police refused permission for the rally
on the plea of traffic control. Yet the people took out
rally. With fluttering Red Flags and reverberating
slogans like “Long Live October Revolution”, “Long
Live Marxism-Leninism”, the participants marched
through the streets for two hours. It took more than
an hour for the rally to pass one point. At the head
of rally cultural activists performed with folk dances
and songs.
The mass rally reached the place of public
meeting –gymkhana grounds. The cultural activists
sang several revolutionary songs in various Indian
languages that paid homage to martyrs, paid
tributes to October Revolution and socialism.
The public meeting was presided over by
Comrades G.Vijaya Kumar, Susheelan and
Shanbhu Mahato.
Com P.Jaswantha Rao addressed the meeting.
In his speech he narrated events that led to October
revolution; the importance of it in the sense that it
established for the first time in the history of
humankind the political power of the exploited
classes and showed the way for the emancipation
of colonial and semi-colonial countries. It
established a socialist society that achieved
progress in a short span of three decades
surpassing that of capitalist system which took
more than two centuries to achieve. The socialist
system achieved this along with the eradication of
poverty and unemployment which still haunts the
capitalist system, thus proving the superiority of
socialism as system of human society. He
reminded that comrade Lenin could lead the
Bolshevik Party and people of Russia in making
success of October revolution only through his
relentless struggle against all wrong trends both in
ideological and political fronts. It was the high
political consciousness of the working people of
Soviet Union, which was cultivated by the Bolshevik
party, that the first socialist society was built in the
most backward imperialist country facing
subversions and aggressive wars from the
Organ of the Central Committee of CPI(ML)