p The world revolution is steadily spreading, involving new social strata and new countries. At present revolutionary changes are taking place in different parts of the world in the form of the building of socialism and communism or a struggle against capitalism, colonialism and even feudal and pre-feudal relations. Lenin wrote: “The social revolution can come only in the form of an epoch in which are combined civil war by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie in the advanced countries and a whole series of democratic and revolutionary movements, including the national liberation movement, in the undeveloped, backward and oppressed nations.”  [281•* 

p However, in spite of their diversity the revolutionary movements develop in dialectical unity and are inter-related directly or indirectly. The community of these movements springs above all from the fact that they are opposed to imperialism. Lenin stressed that revolutionary movements were a single international force objectively directed against capitalism and that it was necessary to “regard the international revolution as one process”.  [281•** 

p The world-wide anti-imperialist front, which unites the socialist countries, the working class and all other 282 democratic, progressive forces of the developed capitalist countries and the peoples who have won or are fighting for national independence, is growing increasingly more active on the international scene.

p On the other hand, as a result of the mounting pressure brought to bear on society by the monopolies, a united antimonopoly front is taking shape in the capitalist countries. This front embraces the working class, the peasants, large segments of the intelligentsia and the middle strata.

p The existing favourable objective prerequisites for the development of the world socialist revolution enhance the role of the subjective factor, and place a greater responsibility on the Communists for the policies they adopt. In other words, the situation requires that they study the conditions of the struggle creatively and on that basis continuously improve their strategy and tactics, their political work as a whole. The following proposition, propounded in a resolution of the 3rd Congress of the RSDLP, namely, that “the working class must be given a concrete picture of the most probable course of the revolution”,  [282•*  unquestionably holds good to this day.

The Communist and Workers’ parties stress the importance of analysing the prospects for the development of each leading contingent of the revolutionary forces and determining the ways and means of achieving its aims within the shortest possible time and with the least sacrifice.