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Public forum and celebration
PEACE BREAD and LAND
Celebrating the Centenary of the 1917 Russian Revolution
Saturday October 28, 2017 2.00pm – 6.30pm
Lidcombe Community Centre, 3 Bridge Street, Lidcombe
Under Lidcombe Library only a short walk from Lidcombe train station.
Performances by Sydney Trade Union Choir and Migrante Kultura Singing Collective
Video excerpts from Sergei Eisenstein’s 1927 film October: Ten Days That Shook The World,and from Warren Beatty’s 1981 movie The Reds.
Presentations on the events of 1917 in Russia, and on the cultural impact of the Revolution on the Russian people, and on the wider political impact including in Australia and the Philippines, with questions and general discussion.
Concluding with a Toast and singing The Internationale
Light meal will be served.
Entry: $10.00 https://www.trybooking.com/SIBY
Event sponsored by:
International League of Peoples Struggles – Australia Migrante Australia
Philippines Australia Union Link
FILEF – Federation of Italian Migrant Workers & Their Families
Contact: peter_murphy1_au@bigpond.com 0418 312 301
May Day 1917 in St Petersburg – after the February Revolution, moving toward the October Revolution.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov – ‘Lenin’, leader of the ‘Bolshevik Party’.
Alexandra Kollontai, member of Executive Committee of Petrograd Soviet.
Leon Trotsky, leader of the Petrograd Soviet and Military Revolutionary Committee.