Work out new political and coonmic policies in order to meet he needs of the masses, In the cities, factories were squisitioned, transport re-allocated nd food distribution strictly gulated. In the countryside, casant soviets occupied and ivided up the land without raiting for any official edict.
As the workers themselves ecame involved in the planning hey realised that they would ave to go all the way - that here was a direct link between olving the immediate problems f their own poverty and the wilding of a tuture society, tanned and otganised by the Forkers, for the workers.
MAXIMUM ENERGY It is true that the Russian evolution has degenerated, and hal democracy and workers' arganisation of the economy save been lost. Nevertheless he lessons remain, the example times out. That was a time when he maximum energy, creativity ind democracy of the working lass, consciously striving for I socialist goal, changed the ace of history and placed the ossibility of socialist revolution in the agenda on a world scale. Hy learning those lessons, we can make that possibility a reality эпсе артіл. 12,000 in London's Alhert Hail. Out of these meetings grew the most important cathering to he directly inspired by the revolution called by the United Socialist Council (a joint body of the main socialist A total of 1,150 delegates gathered in Ired on 3 June 197.
The most important decision adoption of the fourth resolution, calling for the stablishment in every town, urban and rural district of Councils of Workmen and Soldiers* delegates", to implement the Convention's policy.
If this decision had really been carried into effect, and there had been a clear understanding among the delegates as to what Soviets really were, Hritain might be a very different sort of place today. For the following months saw the class struggle across Europe reach its height, as the workers and soldiers" council in Russia became the foundation of the world's first socialist Government, and the end of lic war touched off n mossive wave in every European country - Including Britain of working class militancy.
Hut the Loods Convention had been an uncasy alliance of revolution aries, sincere working class militants, and dyed-in-the-wool reformists.
Among the few who fully understood the resolation, was the revolutsonary transport workers cauce Robert Williams, As he told the deleBATOS:
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parties and programmes at any time. the workers' movement. Hefore the year was out the reformits gained the upper RUSSIA This guaranteed that they could This Hritain's saviets" were sEt HOW THE La joint meeting.
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