Note on a Resolution of the Conference of RSDLP Organisations Abroad

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The conference of RSDLP organisations abroad (of Bolshevik and Menshevik representatives) was held in the summer of 1905. Party branches in South Germany were represented at the conference, whose resolution spoke of the need for a unity congress of the Party to be called, so as to resolve the problem of unification with the seceding section of the RSDLP (the Mensheviks). The resolution was published in No. 12 of Proletary, with a note “from the Editors” written by Lenin.

From the Editors. The measure in which the Central Committee of the RSDLP is working energetically for unity is to be seen in its Open Letter to the Organising Committee, which is published in the present issue. We would only like to remind the reader that for unification a common ground of organisation is needed. The only such ground we are aware of to date is the Rules of the RSDLP, which were adopted at the Party’s Third Congress, and fully guarantee the legitimate rights of a minority.