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Meeting to celebrate the Russian Revolution

Report of a meeting held at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 31 March 1917.There were speeches by George Lansbury, Maude Royden. H. W. Nevison, Joseph Wedgwood, Robert Smillie, Albert Bellamy, Robert Williams, Arthur Lynch, Israel Zangwill, W C Anderson and postscript by H N Brailsford. The following resolution was passed: "This Meeting sends joyful congratulations to the Democrats of Russia, and calls upon the Governments of Great Britain and of every country, neutral and belligerent alike, to follow the Russian example by establishing Industrial Freedom, Freedom of Speech and the Press, the Abolition of Social, Religious and National inequalities, an immediate Amnesty for Political and Religious offences, and Universal Suffrage".

Title Meeting to celebrate the Russian Revolution, March 1917
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Production Date c.1917
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