Her, who was eventually defeated by Trotsky's Red Army.
7 November 1974 Page 6 PECTING THE BOTTISH-TRAINED BUSSIAN TANK COMPS -The Brfish ruling-class was proud of its intervention against the Russian workers, as picture from the Mustrated London News shows. Denikin was a major White Russian thrown up all over Russia, They were the genuine organs of workers self-organisation, and constituted an alternative "dual power", parallel to the power of the capitalist state. and increasingly able to take over its functions, Such bodies had first arisen during the 1905 resolation, and the workers were able to call on that valuable experience.
The bourgeois liberal parties, and the Provisional Government led by Kerensky, Teared these bodies and wanted i Constituent Asembly (Parliament) to be the only seat of power. But the workers realised that only the soviets could decide the outcome of events, not idle parliamentary chatter At first the Bolsheviks were in a minority in the soviets. But by promoting the mest intense debate inside the soviets. about the actions, slopans and revolution bloodshed. work that the Bolsheviks did in the army, plus the fact that they promoted the arming and self-defence of the working class through the soviets, which res ulted in the succes of the October with a minimum of 'BREAD, PEACE, LAND' The deceptively simple slogan "Bread, Peace and Land' summed up the innediate, effective prog ramme of the revolution. For these demands could not be solved, other than by the total overtlaw of capitalism, and the establishment of a workers state, Capitalism in Russia could not offer bread to the bungry. peace to the soldiers or land to the peasants. It was as simple The Western imperialist powers responded to the October revolution by doing everything in their power to strangle the infant Soviet republic. Its very existence was an incitement to the workers of every country to strike a similar blow against the ruling class.
Starting in May of 1918, these former allies of the Tsarist dictatorship began to mount a massive military intervention against the EEYOAFLIOE Britain was among the first to step in, seizing the Northern port of Murm ansk in June 1918. At the height of the forcign intervention, no less than L capitals powers to armies wa Russian territory The first move by the Hritish
The first Russian revolution, which overthrew the Tsarist dictatorship in March 1917, had an electric effect on British workers.
As Aneurin Bevan realled 35 sands of miners, engineers, transport represented here through their trade union lodges, We want these men to go back to their constituents and convince tham to use the power that workers, railwaymen, and the rest are lies in their hands to give or withhold their labour in the place where walth every form of withdrawal of labour which circumstances may require? and called for the estabushment of local Councils of Action in every area. The working clans responded by setting up some 350 Councils of Action in the