By D. Raja, General Secretary, Communist Party of India The November Revolution of 1917 was one of the greatest turning points in human history. It did not merely overthrow an exploiting social order and transfer political power into the hands of workers and peasants; it fundamentally transformed humanity's understanding of what society could become. For the first time, the working class, in alliance with the peasantry and under the leadership of the Bolshevik Party, demonstr