Tamil Nadu
Convention in Commemoration of the Centenary of October
Russian Revolution, Fifty years of Naxalbari Uprising and
Birth Day of Great Proletarian Teacher Lenin
On 22 nd of April 2017 the centenary celebration
of great October Revolution was celebrated at
SelvaMahalKalyanaMandapam, MGR Nagar,
Chennai. More than 300 persons took part in the
great occasion.
At the beginning comrade Chitrarasu welcomed
the gathering. Cultural teams of Andhra Pradesh
and Tamil Nadu performed cultural programme with
revolutionary songs. The entire hall was filled with
emotional fervour.
Com.VinthaiVenthan presided the meeting with a
rousingl presidential address and explained the
significance of the great October revolution in detail.
In continuance the State Committee member and
Veteran Com.Elagiri Raman addressed the
gathering. He explained how Com.Lenin fought with
various alien trends to Marxism and led the October
revolution successfully and enriched the Marxism to
the level of Leninism.
Then Com.Selvaraj Secretary of Salem District
Committee and the State Committee member of
Tamilnadu emphasized the necessity of inner party
democracy and democratic Centralism.
Then Com. Karunanithi, Cuddalore District
Secretary and State Committee member insisted the
necessity of the unity of the communist
revolutionaries to realize the aim of single communist
party in India.
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Then a great Tamil scholar who has translated
“The Capital” in Tamil and a leader of Tamil
DesaViduthalaiIyyakkam gave a very emotional
speech explaining the various aspects of the great
October revolution. He explained how various
scholars such as Ravindranath Tagore, Subramanya
Bharathi and Bharathidasan welcomed the October
revolution. He also explained even though various
trends existed in Russia only Com. Lenin successfully
completed the revolution as he concretely applied
Marxism to the concrete conditions of than Russia.
He also emphasized the need of understanding the
recent developments in the international arena. He
also stated how Lenin dealt the nationality question
in the Tsarist Russia.
Then Prof. Sivakumar one of the renowned
scholar of Tamilnadu gave a very beautiful speech
regarding the Great October Revolution and he also
noted that one hundred years have already passed
since October Revolution we must understand the
developments of the world and should pay attention
to solve the problems of revolution by applying
Leninism concretely. He also explained how China
have became a capitalist state and nobody should
have Illusion about the present China.
Com.Jaswanth Rao, Editor of Class struggle gave
a very deep analytic speech about the October
revolution and also explained how India is completely
sold out to the Imperialists
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