Red salute for Red October!

Andy Brooks stresses the role of the Bolsheviks

by New Worker correspondent

Millions upon millions of working people all over the world commemorated the  anniversary of the Great October Russian Revolution in 1917 last week. And last Saturday comrades and friends joined them at the NCP’s annual tribute to the 10 days that shook the world.
Representatives from other socialist and solidarity movements as well as members of the Chinese embassy gathered at the Party Centre in London to salute the Bolsheviks who established the first workers and peasants’ republic in November 1917.
Once again the New Worker print shop was transformed for a bar and buffet that paused only for the formal part of the social opened by the NCP’s national chair, Richard Bos.
NCP leader Andy Brooks paid tribute to the achievements of the Soviet Union during its existence and that of the people’s democracies and world communist movement that fights on for the liberation of humanity from oppression and exploitation.
Other speakers included Jiang Zhouteng from the Chinese embassy in London, Ian Donovan of the Consistent Democrats, British Posadist Marie Lynam, Dermot Hudson from the Korean Friendship Association and Theo Russell from the International Ukraine Anti-Fascist Solidarity movement.
No NCP event can end without a collection for the New Worker and Richard Bos continued the tradition with a rousing call in support the £10,000 special appeal. A Chigwell supporter who could not be with us had already given £2,000.  On the night others joined in to push the collection up to a stomping £2,385! 

Celebrating Red October!

Andy Brooks makes a point

by New Worker correspondent

Comrades and friends braved the weather on Saturday to mark the Russian revolution that was, undoubtedly, the greatest event in the 20th Century. Representatives from solidarity movements and members of the Chinese embassy gathered at the Party Centre to salute the Bolsheviks that established the first workers and peasants’ republic in November 1917.
Once again the New Worker print shop was transformed for a bar and buffet that paused only for the formal part of the social opened by Peter Hendy.
NCP leader Andy Brooks paid tribute to the achievements of the Soviet Union in the 20th Century. Other speakers included Keith Bennett from the Friends of Socialist China, Ian Donovan from the Consistent Democrats, British Posadist Marie Lynam and Theo Russell from the International Ukraine Anti-Fascist Solidarity movement, while Peter Hendy read out a message from Dermot Hudson of the Korean Friendship Association (KFA) who could not join us on the night.
Although the USSR and the people’s democracies of eastern Europe are no more, the spirit of 1917 lives on in China, Cuba, Democratic Korea, Vietnam and Laos, and in the hearts of communists throughout the world, a point stressed during the fighting fund appeal that raised £805 for the New Worker!