Via The NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit THE 1917 RUSSIAN REVOLUTION: How Workers Changed the World Forever They can't set the clock completely back. As much as they may try, the capitalists cannot go back to the time when they ruled the whole world, dividing and re-dividing it among themselves at whim. That was before the Russian Revolution. On November 7, 1917, the workers and oppressed of the former czarist empire stormed the heavens, seize state power, and changed the world forever. The bosses and bankers have never been the same. Neither have the oppressed. The Russian Revolution showed what could be done. It unleashed the creative energies of the exploited on every continent. This force is still in motion. Despite the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian Revolution lives on in every struggle, every strike, every fight for national liberation waged today, from Chicago to Calcutta to Capetown. Articles in this special series include: - Mass uprising brings a new world - Baku 1920: Oppressed peoples embrace socialism - Soviet victory sparked struggles worldwide - H-bombs and dirty tricks: 7 decades of imperialist pressure on the USSR - Sam Marcy starts a new series on the collapse of the Soviet Union and the destiny of world socialism -30- (Copyright Workers World Service: Permission to reprint granted if source is cited. For more info contact Workers World, 46 W. 21 St., New York, NY 10010; "workers" on PeaceNet; on Internet: "workers@mcimail.com".) NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit Modem: 718-448-2358 * Internet: nytransfer@igc.apc.org