Lenin's analysis of imperialism as the last stage of capitalism is of great importance not only for the labor movement, but also for the national liberation struggle. Lenin, for the first time in the history of Marxism, developed the basic provisions on the national and colonial question, which have programmatic significance for the entire world communist movement. In the modern period, Lenin's theory of national liberation revolution finds its further development in the Documents of the Meetings of Representatives of Communist and Workers' Parties, held in Moscow on November 14-16, 1957 and in November 1960, as well as in the Program of the CPSU, adopted by the XXII Congress.

The Great October Socialist Revolution marked the advent of the era of liberation of oppressed peoples. In the middle of the 20th century, a powerful wave of national liberation revolutions rose and the former colonial countries won political independence. Thus began the process of their national formation, the objective basis of which is the development of an independent national economy.

The main task of the modern stage of the national liberation revolution is to win economic independence. The resolution of this central national task is inconceivable without the creation of modern industry capable of ensuring the integrated development of the economy and the elimination of its lopsided monocultural character. The tasks of industrialization require the full development of the mining industry, which should provide the mineral and raw material base for the developing national industry. Therefore, the development of national mining industry is an objectively conditioned process of development of productive forces and at the same time one of the forms of the struggle for economic independence.

At present, humanity has reached a stage where the question of the final collapse of colonialism is on the agenda. The process of revival of the peoples of the East has begun, opening up remarkable prospects for the further rise of all modern civilization. Old Africa is becoming a thing of the past. The deepest rear of imperialism is being destroyed. The program of the CPSU emphasizes the entry onto the world stage of a new detachment of the international proletariat - the young workers' movement of the liberated, dependent and colonial countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

On April 22, 1960, the Soviet people, the working people of the people's democracies, the working class of the capitalist and colonial world, and all progressive humanity celebrate the 90th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin — the founder and wise leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the organizer of the world's first socialist state, and the great leader of the international labor, communist, and national liberation movement.