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Workers of the World, Unite! Unity & Struggle Journal of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations No. 34 – June of 2017 UNITY & STRUGGLE #34 JUNE 2017 Unity & Struggle Journal of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations. Published in English, Spanish, Turkish, Arabic, Portuguese and German as the responsibility of the Coordinating Committee of the International Conference. Any opinions expressed in this journal belong to the contributors. Postal Address: Verlag AZ, Postfach 401051, D-70410, Stuttgart, Germany Contents Brazil ................................................................................................. 5 The Red Army and the Soviet People Saved Humanity from Nazism Revolutionary Communist Party – PCR Burkina Faso ................................................................................... 15 The October Revolution: Its Teachings on the Question of Nations and Nationalities Revolutionary Communist Party of Volta – PCRV Denmark.......................................................................................... 23 Denmark and the Nordic countries: The rise and fall of the dream of peace and socialism without a revolution Workers’ Communist Party of Denmark – APK Dominican Republic ....................................................................... 37 Hundredth Anniversary of the October Revolution: The Experience of the Soviets Communist Party of Labor – PCT Ecuador ........................................................................................... 48 The October Revolution and the Revolutionary Party of the Proletariat Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador – PCMLE France.............................................................................................. 71 The Conditions of the Revolutionary Crisis in Russia and the Struggle against the Opportunist Currents Workers' Communist Party of France – PCOF Germany.......................................................................................... 82 The October Revolution and its Influence on the German Workers’ Movement Organization for the Construction of the Workers’ Communist Party of Germany Greece ........................................................................................... 105 October Revolution – Confirmation of the Leninist Theory of the Proletarian Revolution Movement for the Reorganisation of the Communist Party of Greece 1918-55 UNITY & STRUGGLE #34 JUNE 2017 India .............................................................................................. 113 The October Revolution and Education (1917-1932) Revolutionary Democracy Iran ............................................................................................... 143 The October Revolution and the Victory of Leninism Its Effects on the International Communist Movement and the Communist Movement in Iran Party of Labor (Toufan) Italy............................................................................................... 154 Red October and the founding of the Communist International Communist Platform – for the Communist Party of the Proletariat of Italy Mexico .......................................................................................... 168 The Mexican Revolution of 1910-17 and the Great Socialist Revolution of October 1917 Communist Party of Mexico (Marxist-Leninist) – PCM(ML) Norway ......................................................................................... 177 Alexandra Kollontai and the Bolshevik Influence on the Norwegian Labour Movement in the Period of the October Revolution Revolusyon Peru............................................................................................... 183 The Alliance of the Working Class, the Poor and Middle Peasantry in the October Revolution and the Building of Socialism Peruvian Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) – PCP(ML) Spain ............................................................................................. 191 Stalin and the Revolution Communist Party of Spain (Marxist-Leninist) – PCE(ML) Tunisia .......................................................................................... 203 The Role of Women in the Great October Revolution Workers’ Party of Tunisia – PTT Turkey .......................................................................................... 211 Culture and Revolution Party of Labour (EMEP) BRAZIL – THE RED ARMY SAVED HUMANITY FROM NAZISM Brazil Revolutionary Communist Party – Brazil The Red Army and the Soviet People Saved Humanity from Nazism Soviet Union, if we could gather up all the blood spilled in your struggles, all you gave as a mother to the world so that freedom, dying, might live, we would have a new ocean larger than any other deeper than any other vibrant as all rivers active as the fire of Araucanian volcanoes. Sink your hand into this sea, man of every nation, then withdraw and drown in it all that has forgotten, outraged, lied and stained, all that joined the hundred small curs of the Western dump-heap and insulted your blood, Mother of free men!... Pablo Neruda Under capitalism, wars are the result of the competition of the ruling classes of different countries for the domination of the planet. In World War I, two opposing imperialist blocs were formed: the Triple Alliance (the German, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman- Turkish Empire) and the Triple Entente (the English, French and Russian Empire). Something new, however, arose during World War I: the social- ist revolution of October 1917, in Russia. A new division occurred in the world, now divided into two antagonistic systems: capitalism and socialism. The capitalist blocs began to have a common goal: the destruc- tion of the first worker-peasant state in history, with the goal of the restoration of capitalism on a global scale. It was for this purpose 5 UNITY & STRUGGLE #34 JUNE 2017 that the winning bloc invested 15 billion marks in the German economy in six years (1924-1929). When Nazism took power in Germany and made clear its inten- tion of dominating the world, the dominant imperialist powers did not try to fight it. On the contrary, they fixed their eyes on its ag- gressions and even encouraged the Nazi monster to direct its attack against the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The plan of the capitalist countries to destroy the homeland of the soviets In 1939, the USSR proposed a pact to England and France for joint military action if the Axis countries (Germany, Italy and Ja- pan), the Nazi fascist bloc, were to start a war in Europe. There was no formal rejection, but no steps were taken by the capitalist coun- tries to finalize the pact. On the contrary, France and England signed a non-aggression treaty with Germany. Being alone, in Au- gust 1939, the USSR signed a non-aggression treaty with Germany. The leaders knew that sooner or later, Hitler would break the agreement, but they would gain valuable time to move part of their industries to the East of the great Soviet territory, as well as to rein- force their military capabilities. From 1938 to 1941, Hitler occupied Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Greece, Yugoslavia and finally France. In Central and Eastern Europe, Germany ac- quired a large quantity of war materials, means of transport, raw materials, strategic materials and labor power, becoming strong enough to attack the Soviet Union. Hitler in his book “Mein Kampf” (“My Struggle”), proclaimed: “If land was desired in Europe, it could be obtained by and large only at the expense of Russia.” In 1941 Hitler, the fascist beast, representing the interests of the capitalist monopolies, tried to put an end to socialism by invading the Soviet Union, burning factories and fields, dropping thousands of bombs on the USSR and carrying out the greatest carnage the world has ever seen. But the heroic Red Army, led by the Com- munist Party and Stalin, supported by a free people, rose up against the Nazi beast and crushed it, freeing humanity from fascism. The Hitlerite invasion was relentless. “They shot people en masse (women, children, the elderly), set up death camps, deported people for forced labor in Germany. Wherever they went, they left nothing standing.” It was a policy of extermination: “I have the 6 BRAZIL – THE RED ARMY SAVED HUMANITY FROM NAZISM right to destroy millions of men of an inferior race who multiply like vermin” (Hitler). In response, the government, the Bolshevik Party and the Soviet people issued the call: Death to the fascist invaders, forward to the front! Everything for victory! Millions of men joined the ranks of the Red Army. They also created numerous partisan regiments, made up of millions of fighters. The dedication and bravery of the Soviet people inspired the world and were decisive shook up the capitalist resistance (the USA, England and France). The allied, anti-fascist bloc was finally formed, the united front of the peoples for peace and against fas- cism. Hitler’s idea that the occupation of the USSR would be a walk in the park, a “blitzkrieg” (lightning war), collapsed. The Nazis did not imagine the resistance they would find in the main cities: Len- ingrad, Stalingrad, Kiev and Moscow, among others. Men and women, elders and children rose up like an impregnable wall. The deeds of the Soviet people reverberated throughout the world, leading a US newspaper, the Washington Star, to state: “The events in Russia in the struggle against Hitlerite Germany are of great importance not only