For a century, the ruling class has produced industrial quantities of lies and distortions about Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik Party and of the October Revolution of 1917. This article, therefore, sheds an important light on the life of this revolutionary giant. Covering the formative years of Lenin’s life, the following article – first published in issue 36 of In defence of Marxism magazine, gives a portrait of Lenin in his youth: from his boyhood years, to his making as a revolutionary, the founding of Iskra up until the eve of the second congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, out of which the Bolshevik faction would first begin to emerge.
Este mes de junio, los trabajadores de las tiendas de Apple en Baltimore hicieron historia al ganar la votación para la representación sindical en la primera de las 270 tiendas de Apple en todo Estados Unidos. Esto representa los primeros avances en la batalla por la sindicalización de la empresa con la mayor capitalización bursátil del mundo, que a principios de este año alcanzaba la friolera de 3 billones de dólares.