Mansa sits down with Vincent for a special episode to discuss some key lessons of the Russian Revolution for the struggles of the working class and oppressed today, and how these are crucial to addressing the crisis of the left. We focus on three: split with social chauvinism, communist leadership of the democratic tasks, and internationalism (or why the revolution degenerated). 

What is revolutionary leadership? https://iclfi.org/spartacist/en/68/leadership

In defense of permanent revolution https://iclfi.org/spartacist/en/68/permrev

The fight for the Fourth International today: https://iclfi.org/pubs/pamphlets/lfi-debate/4th-intl

Trotsky - In defence of Octoberhttps://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1932/11/oct.htm

"An essential condition of the Bolsheviks' success," in Left-wing Communism: An infantile disorder: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/ch02.htm

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