In the October Revolution of 1917, the Russian workers and peasants took power with the Bolsheviks at their head, but Lenin understood that socialism could not be built in Russia alone. 

That’s why he and the Bolsheviks founded the Third, Communist International – or Comintern – as a single party of world revolution, bringing together and assisting the development of communist parties in every country.

In this talk, Fred Weston from the leading body of the RCI explains how the Comintern was built, what it accomplished, and the reasons for its eventual degeneration – leaving behind an absence of revolutionary leadership that we strive to fill with our new International.