If British managed to control Suez Canal, they can cut down the cost of transportation to obtain resources from Asian continent.
This would cut down the cost of their finished product, and help them to win against the competitors from other countries who were forced to take longer routes and increase their cost of productions.
Lenin began plotting an overthrow of the Provisional Government. To Lenin, the provisional government was a “dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.” He advocated instead for direct rule by the workers and peasants in a “dictatorship of the proletariat.