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Introductory paper

Stefan Engel

Thematic blocks

Speaker/organization

1. Lenin's analysis on the development of the imperialist world system; the character of the 1st World War, the emergence of a revolutionary world crisis at the end of the 1st World War and the analysis of the uneven development of the imperialist countries and the ingenious cognition about the Russian revolution as one of the weakest links in the chain of the imperialist countries.

Otto Vargas, PCR Argentina

2. Lenin's strategy of the international revolution. The international counterrevolution brings the international revolution which began with the October Revolution to a stand-still, because the objective and subjective prerequisites for a successful proletarian revolution did not exist in most European countries.

Comrades of Bolshevik Partisan North Kurdistan-Turkey

3. The strategy and tactics of the armed uprising; the connection between the democratic and the socialist revolution; flexibility of fighting tactics, forms of organization and slogans.

Abou Tarik, Morocco

4. The necessity of socialist building in one country in connection with the building of a communist world movement, of which the Soviet Union was the international

bulwark; the importance of the Comintern.

Comrade of the MLP Russia

5. The October Revolution and the struggle against opportunism and sectarianism.

K.N., CPI-ML Red Star India

6. The October Revolution lives. Conclusions for the revolutionary class struggle today.

Jose Maria Sison, Founding Chairman of the CPP Philippines

Concluding contribution

Stefan Engel