Today marks the 155th anniversary of the birth of the great revolutionary and theorist of scientific socialism, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Lenin stands among the most remarkable figures in world history. He was a theoretical and political genius and a driving force in the greatest event in human history – the Great October Socialist Revolution which transferred power to the working class, broke down the machinery of the bourgeois state, established the world’s first workers’ state and inspired subsequent revolutionary political struggles across the globe.

Lenin put into practice the revolutionary ideas of Marx and Engels and created a revolutionary party to abolish all forms of exploitation and oppression and to construct a new society based on socialist ideas. Marxism-Leninism transformed the world and inspired the workers and oppressed of the world and offered real prospects for change, investing the workers’ movement with a revolutionary consciousness and objective and educating, organising and mobilising the mass of the working people in the task of building a new and better world.

Lenin highlighted the qualitative developments in the structure of capitalism which were the forces behind imperialism. He exposed in a clear way both the growth of monopoly and the associated changes it brought about in the capitalist economy.

The imperialist imperative of capitalist expansion remains a reality. Imperialism, as the final stage of capitalism, is not simply an instrument of exploitation and aggrandisement, it is an essential device for preserving the interests of capital and the monopolies.

Socialist and capitalist relations of production cannot coexist, one beside the other. The capitalist system must be abolished. The ruling class, the capitalist class, will never voluntarily surrender its power without being forced to do so. The weapon in the hands of the working class is the power of class struggle.

Long live the memory of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin!

Long live Marxism-Leninism!

Long live proletarian internationalism!

The Workers Party is also a signatory to the Joint Statement of Communist and Workers’ Parties on the 155th anniversary of the birth of V.I. Lenin