V. I. Lenin

Draft Resolution by Workers’ Organisations on the Slanderous Liquidators’ Charge Against Insurance Worker X {1}

Havingexamined the liquidators’ charge in their Novaya Rabochaya Gazeta against insurance worker X, and having obtained all
the testimonials from the Editorial Board of the liquidators’ newspaper and
from the Editorial Board of Za Pravdu , which on October 17
published the decision of a commission from five Marxist
institutions, we, the board of such and such a league or society, find this
decision correct and the liquidators’ campaign slanderous.

Weurge workers, in order to safeguard their organisation from ruin, to
boycott the slanderers, unless they make a firm and public retraction of
their slanders.

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Notes:
{1}
A reference to B. G. Dansky (K. A. Komarovsky). He joined the
R.S.D.L.P. in 1911, contributed articles to Zvezda and
Pravda and took p art in the insurance movement; in 1913 and 1914,
he was on the Editorial Board of the Bolshevik journal Voprosy Strakhovaniya . In order to discredit the Bolsheviks, the liquidators
accused Dansky of writing for the bourgeois press. A Party commission
consisting of representatives of the Editorial Boards of the news paper
Za Pravda and the journals Prosveshcheniye and
Voprosy Strakhovaniya , the Russian Social-Democratic Labour group
in the Duma, and Priboi Publishers examined the facts and established that
after joining the Bolshevik Party Dansky had ceased writing for the
bourgeois press; accordingly, it declared him to be an honest Party member,
and the liquidators’ charges, libellous. Lenin also wrote about the case
later, in the report of the R.S.D.L.P. Central Committee at the Brussels
Conference (see present edition, Vol. 20, p. 524).

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