(1) Landed proprietorship is abolished forthwith without any compensation.(2) The landed estates, as also all crown, monastery, and church lands, with all their livestock, implements, buildings and everything pertaining thereto, shall be placed at the disposal of the volost land committees and the uyezd Soviets of Peasants’ Deputies pending the convocation of the Constituent Assembly.(3) All damage to confiscated property, which henceforth belongs to the whole people, is proclaimed a grave crime to be punished by the revolutionary courts.

THOUSANDS of people took part in various programmes organised across the country on November 7 to mark the centenary of the Great October Socialist Revolution in Russia, a historic event which stimulates every struggle for the emancipation of humanity from all kinds of exploitation. On the call of the CPI(M) Central Committee, rallies, public meetings and exhibitions were organised in many state capitals and other areas.   WEST BENGALThousands marched in Kolkata to mark the centenary of the historic event. A public rally took place after the procession.

When I look for the grandest day of my life,rummaging in all  I’ve gone through and seen. I name without doubt or internal strifeOctober 25, 1917. The Smolny throbs in a buzz of excitement. Grenades hang on seamen like partridges. Bayonets zigzag like flashes of lightning.Below stand machine-gunners belted with cartridges. No aimless shuffling in the corridors;with bombs and rifles  no one’s a novice. “Comrade Stalin wants to see you.Here’s the orders:armoured cars –to the General Post Office.” “Comrade Trotsky’s instructions.”“Right!” ─he dashed forwardand the man’s navy ribbons flashed: “

7th of November: Ode to a Day of Victories Pablo Neruda (1941) I greet you, Soviet Union, on this day,With humility: I am a writer and a poet.My father was railroad worker: we were always poor.Yesterday I was with you, far off, in my littlecountry of great rains.

IN Russia at last! Whichever way I look, I am filled with wonder. It is unlike any other country…From top to bottom they are rousing everybody up….This Revolution was waiting to take place in Russia for a long time. Preparations have long been in progress; countless numbers of men, known and unknown have given their lives for it, and embraced intolerable suffering.The cause for revolution is widespread, but it becomes concentrated in certain parts of the world: the skin reddens and breaks into boils in the weaker spots, even though the blood of the whole body is infected.