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Proposed Amendments to the Resolution on the War Issue
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1964, Moscow, Volume 23, page 282.
These amendments were proposed by the Swiss Lefts at the Zurich cantonal party congress in Töss, February 11â12, 1917.
The congress had before it two draft resolutions: (1) a social-chauvinist draft submitted by minority members of the commission on the war issue, and (2) a Centrist draft from the commission majority. The latter was adopted with the amendments formulated by Lenin by 93 votes to 65. The Lefts voted for the resolution in order to prevent adoption of the social-chauvinist draft. The typewritten copy of the amendments has this note by Lenin on the results of the voting:
âFor the Right-wing Klöti and Co. resolution â65 â82
// 32+32 for this â â Grimm Centrist resolution â93 +resolution \\ \\ 61 out of 158
Total 158â
The amendments were published in No.{ }1 of the leaflet âGegen die LĂŒge der Vaterlandsverteidigungâ (âAgainst the Fatherland Defence Lieâ) issued by the Swiss Left in February 1917 in close cooperation with Lenin.
Lenin discusses the struggle within the Swiss Social-Democratic Party in his article âThe Story of One Short Period in the Life of One Socialist Partyâ (see pp. 283â86 of this volume).
1. Party parliamentary deputies shall be under obligation to reject, stating their principled grounds, all war demands and credits and insist on demobilisation.
2. No civil peace; intensification of principled struggle against all bourgeois parties, also against nationalist-GrĂŒtli ideas in the labour movement and the party.
3. Systematic revolutionary propaganda in the army.
4. Support of all revolutionary movements and of the struggle against the war and against oneâs own government in every warring country.
5. Assistance to every revolutionary mass action in Switzerlandâstrikes, demonstrationsâand their development into open armed struggle.
6. The party shall proclaim the socialist transformation of Switzerland to be the aim of the revolutionary mass struggle decided upon at the 1915 Party Congress at Aarau. This revolution is the only, and really effective, way of liberating the working class from the horror of high prices and hunger, and is essential for the complete elimination of militarism and war.