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INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF COMMUNIST AND WORKERS' PARTIES
MINSK, BELARUS

Speech by General Secretary of the CC of KKE,
cde Aleka Paparigha
"The 90th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.
The timeliness and eternal value of its ideas.
Communists in the struggle against imperialism and for socialism."

Dear comrades,

We are especially pleased that this year's international meeting of our Communist and Workers' Parties, on the subject of the 90th anniversary of the Great October Revolution, is being hosted in the capital of a former Socialist Republic, Belarus. We salute the events that will follow in Moscow.

       The October Revolution was a momentous event, the greatest in the 20th century, and is still, to this day, setting its seal on the course of humankind. Since 1917, international capitalism has been obliged to put the existence of this "rival force" as the first item on its political agenda.

       The historic contribution of socialism to the 20th century has been inherited by the modern revolutionary movement, a valuable trust for the future, and as such we must study it and defend it against the class hatred it has aroused in the bourgeois class and its allies.

       Thanks to the October Socialist Revolution, conditions were created for people's rights to be put in practice, which was unknown to the working people in even the most developed capitalist countries.

       The gains by workers and farmers, women and young people under the Soviet state acted in favour of the working people in the capitalist countries. It was a basic factor that obliged the bourgeois government parties, liberal and social democratic, to make concessions to the working class.

       These gains under the Soviet government still constitute an unreachable dream for the working class, the workers and broad masses of the people in all the capitalist countries, even the most developed.

       Our assessment is that the reversal of the socialist system was a counter-revolution that brought about a major social regression, not only in the USSR and the other socialist European countries, but also to any gains that the working people had achieved in the capitalist countries.

       We reject the word "collapse" of the socialist system, since it attributes the nature of necessity to the counter-revolutionary process, hides the social clash and the prerequisites for its evolution into an open class struggle.

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