Fue fulminante, en cuestión de horas el Comité de Lucha del IPN, organizó asambleas en la mayoría de las escuelas superiores del IPN y el jueves 14 se realizó una movilización en la zona de Zacatenco con más de 4000 estudiantes. La reacción de las autoridades del IPN fue de incredulidad y espanto, al grado que por primera vez en la historia el Director General del IPN abrogó una resolución del Consejo General Consultivo por medio de la cual se pretendía instaurar un reglamento academico lesivo a los intereses de los estudiantes. Un triunfo absoluto que demuestra que el CLEP esta listo para enfrentar a las políticas de derecha tanto dentro de las escuelas como fuera de ellas.
El Zócalo lució sus magnificencias y esplendores, bien bañado y bien peinado, sacudió desde sus entrañas la fuerza revolucionaria del pueblo y dio lugar al nacimiento de una era nueva para México. Nadie acudió ingenuamente en cantidad y en calidad fue una Convención convencida.
Desde antes de las 12:00 horas del 16 de septiembre, los ríos de gente comenzaron a llegar a la macro plaza del zócalo capitalino. Numerosos y nutridos contingentes se apoderaron del centro histórico, consignas, algarabía, sentimiento de ser parte de algo superior a cada individualidad. La maquinaria de la Tendencia Marxista Militante empezó a intervenir desde entonces con ideas correctas conectando cabalmente con el ambiente combativo, de clase.
Strikes and protests erupt on women's day in Petrograd and develop into a mass movement involving hundreds of thousands of workers; within 5 days the workers win over the army and bring down the hated and seemingly omnipotent Tsarist Monarchy.
Following the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets, the reformist leaders called a demonstration to show the strength of "democracy". 400,000 people attended, the vast majority carried banners with Bolshevik slogans.
Spontaneous, armed demonstrations against the Provisional Government erupt in Petrograd. The workers and soldiers are suppressed by force, introducing a period of reaction and making the peaceful development of the revolution impossible.
Following the July days, the Bolsheviks were driven underground and the forces of reaction were emboldened. This process culminated in the reactionary forces coalescing around General Kornilov, who attempt to march on Petrograd and crush the revolutionary movement in its entirety.
The Provisional Government is overthrown. State power passes to the Soviets on the morningm of 26th October, after the Bolsheviks’ Military Revolutionary Committee seize the city and the cabinet surrenders.
The February Revolution saw a mass strike develop from below at a furious pace which posed the question of state power within a week of its inception. Workers in Petrograd took to the streets against intolerable bread shortages, the slaughter…
This reading guide contains some of Lenin’s most important writings and speeches made in the April period, accompanied by works which provide further details of events at that stage of the Revolution.
This reading guide informs the May-June period of the Revolution with analysis, accounts of those who were involved and important speeches and writings of the time.
This selection of texts covers the background, events and consequences of the July Days. Next, we will turn our attention to one of those consequences – the Kornilov putsch in late August.
Kornilov’s failed coup brought the direct action of the masses into play again, and proved to them once and for all that they were the only force in society capable of transforming their own living conditions. For the first time,…
The following series of articles provides in-depth analyses and first-hand accounts of the events immediately preceding, during and after the greatest event in human history: the October Revolution, in addition to reflections on its aftermath.