V. I.

Lenin

Geneva, June 2, 1905

To the International Socialist Bureau

Dear Comrades, A few weeks ago the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party held its Third
Congress. French and German translations of the Congress resolutions will
appear shortly in a special pamphlet, [1] which will be forwarded to
the Bureau. By decision of the Congress, Iskra has ceased to be the
Central Organ of the Party. Henceforth, the weekly, Proletary , [2] published in Geneva, will be the Central Organ.

The Central Committee, which is, according to the new Rules, the sole central
body of our Party, will appoint the Party’s representative on the International
Bureau. Please address all future communications to Comrade Ulyanov,
Representative of the Central Committee, 3, Rue de la Colline, Genève.

Accept, dear comrades, our fraternal greetings.

For the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P.

N. Lenin ( V. Ulyanov )

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Notes:
[1]
The “special pamphlet” referred to appeared on
June 12 (25), 1905, in French, as a supplement to the newspaper Le Socialiste , Central Organ of the Socialist Party of France, and in German
in the Munich edition Bericht über den III. Parteitag der S.-D.A.-P.R.
(Report on the Third Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. and the Resolutions of the Congress). The issue of these pamphlets was announced in
Proletary , No. 15, September 5 (August 23), 1905, in the Party
News column.

[2]
Proletary (The Proletarian)—underground
Bolshevik weekly, Central Organ of the R.S.D.L.P., founded in accordance with a
resolution of the Third Party Congress. By a decision of the plenary meeting of
the Party Central Committee of April 27 (May 10), 1905, Lenin was appointed
Editor-in-Chief.

Proletary was published in Geneva from May 14 (27) to November 12
(25), 1905. Twenty-six numbers were put out. V. V. Vorovsky, A. V. Lunacharsky,
and M. S. Olminsky regularly helped in the work of the Editorial
Board. Proletary carried on the line of the old, Leninist,
Iskra and preserved complete continuity with the Bolshevik newspaper
Vperyod .

Lenin wrote over fifty articles and minor items for the newspaper. His articles
in Proletary were reprinted in the local Bolshevik periodicals and
published in leaflet form.

Shortly after Lenin’s departure for Russia in November 1905 Proletary
suspended publication. The last two issues of Proletary (Nos. 25 and
26) were edited by Vorovsky.