On November 7, 1991, despite the fact that Yeltsin banned festive demonstrations in honour of the anniversary of the October Revolution, thousands of Soviet citizens took to the streets with red flags. The most massive protests took place in Moscow and Leningrad, which had already been renamed St. Petersburg by the fake democrats. In the capital, tens of thousands of people even managed to get into the closed off Red Square.

Today, the words of these ordinary Muscovites and Leningraders about the innumerable troubles that were in store for the working people under capitalism seem like a terrible prophecy. But they could not even imagine that in a few months their country would be erased from the world map, and the lives of millions of people would be destroyed.

Backup at Rumble.
Translated by Putinger’s Cat
Source: Communist World

«We Need New Octobers»

New AI song from our comrades at the RED channel, performed live by Friedrich Engels on bass, Iosif Stalin on drums, Karl Marx lead vocals, Rosa Luxenbourg lead guitar, and Vladimir Lenin rhythm guitar and vocals.

The Great October Socialist Revolution stands as humanity’s unique breakthrough on the path to liberation from exploitation. In an age when imperialist war drenched the world in blood, workers and poor peasants rose up and took power into their own hands to build a life free from the exploitation of one human being by another. October showed that working people could determine their own destiny and change the world. The path it opened reached far beyond the land of its birth, strengthening the struggle for equality and freedom across the globe.
The dissolution of the Soviet Union did not erase the historical legitimacy or continuing relevance of this breakthrough. In the face of capitalism, which breeds war, exploitation and poverty, humanity’s need for liberation endures. Only new Octobers, new socialist revolutions that establish workers’ power—can carry humanity forward.

«We Need New Octobers» is a song of this conviction and determination. It is a call to carry October’s legacy into today’s organised struggle, to build a world of bread, peace and brotherhood with our own hands. For the future is in the hands of those who come together to create it.Organise! Be ready! Together, let us march toward new Octobers!

This is our wealth, and we must preserve it!
A 1982 poster by A. Vaganov, dedicated to the policy of careful and rational use of all resources. Source.

Lyrics: «We Need New Octobers»

The streets are cold, the factories sleep, but under the ashes the old fire breathes.
They sell the sun, they rent the rain, turn our hunger into gain.
And when we fall, they call it fate, while they feast behind the gates.
But history does not crawl, it rises through the wall.
A hand, a voice, a broken town, can bring an empire down.

We need new Octobers, red dawns over grey skies.
We are lonely, we are millions, we are buried, we will rise.
Nothing’s right, the world is burning, but the wheel can still be turned.
We need new Octobers, before the whole earth burns.

No saviour rides from heaven’s gate, no mercy comes to those who wait.
Ah, the old machine will not be kind, it feeds on every silent mind.
What is to be done, my friends?
Not prayers, not tears, not hollow ends.
Organise the scattered flame, teach the streets to speak one name.
Alone, we break in hidden rooms, together, we become the storm.
The night is long, the wound is deep, but sleeping hearts can still be born.

We need new Octobers, red dawns over grey skies.
We are lonely, we are millions, we are buried, we will rise.
Nothing’s right, the world is burning, but the wheel can still be turned.
We need new Octobers, before the whole earth burns.

They made the worker a ghost in the machine.
Then let the ghost come alive and be seen.
They made the poor man doubt his brother.
Then let him find one another.
They wrote the law in iron and blood.
Then answer with thunder, answer with flood.
No crown, no chain, no master’s lie,
the old world trembles when the voiceless cry.
We are alone but not alone!
We are unknown but not unknown!
From every mine, from every street,
from empty hands and marching feet!
No more begging at the door, no more dying for their war.
No more bread priced like gold, no more children left in cold.

We need new Octobers, red dawns over grey skies.
We are lonely, we are millions, we are buried, we will rise.
Nothing’s right, the world is burning, but the wheel can still be turned.
We need new Octobers, before the whole earth burns. Not tomorrow.

Not tomorrow. Not someday.
The future is not given it is taken from decay.
We need new Octobers. We need them now.
We need new Octobers. We need them now.

Defeat US imperialism! “We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war, but war can only be abolished through war. And in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun” —Chairman Mao Zedong