The meeting finds that unity within the Social-Democratic fraction in the realm of Duma work is both possible and necessary.

However, the meeting notes that the conduct of seven deputies poses a serious threat to the fraction’s unity.

These seven deputies, taking advantage of a mere one-vote majority, are violating the most basic rights of six working-class deputies who represent the overwhelming majority of workers in Russia.

Driven by narrow factional interests, these seven deputies are denying six deputies the opportunity to address the Duma on the most crucial issues facing the working class. In numerous instances where the Social-Democratic fraction had designated two or more speakers, the six deputies, despite their repeated requests, were consistently denied the chance to put forward their own representative.

In the allocation of seats on Duma committees—such as the Budget Committee—the same pattern of exclusion is repeated: once again, the seven deputies, by a single vote, deny the six deputies the right to claim one of the two available positions.

When it comes to electing representatives from the fraction to key institutions vital to the workers’ movement, the seven deputies, by a margin of just one vote, effectively strip the six deputies of their rightful representation. The fraction’s support staff are always selected in a one-sided manner—for example, the second secretary’s request was flatly rejected.

The meeting concludes that this conduct on the part of the seven deputies is bound to generate friction within the fraction, impede cohesive collaboration, and ultimately lead to the fracturing of the Social-Democratic fraction.

The meeting therefore voices its strongest protest against such behavior on the part of the seven deputies.

The six deputies represent the vast majority of workers in Russia and act in full accordance with the political line of the organized vanguard of the working class.

The meeting thus holds that only through complete equality between the two wings of the fraction—and only by the seven deputies abandoning their policy of suppression—will it be possible to preserve the unity of the Social-Democratic fraction in the sphere of Duma work.

Despite irreconcilable differences in matters beyond the Duma itself, the meeting calls for the fraction’s unity based on the aforementioned principles of equal standing for its two constituent parts.

The meeting invites conscious workers to voice their views on this critical issue and to do everything in their power to safeguard the fraction’s unity on the only truly viable basis: the equal rights of the six working-class deputies.