V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v46;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

TO THE ORGANISATIONAL COMMITTEE. APRIL 6, 1903

In forwarding to the O.C. the inquiry of the O.C. Foreign Section, we, for our part, would strongly advise that the functions of the O.C. Foreign Section should on no account be extended, and that it should not be allowed to enlarge its scope by a single inch, which it is striving to do with all its might.

In the interests of the cause, the functions of the O.C. Foreign Section must on no account go beyond preparing the conspiratorial part of the congress, collecting money, and, at the most, also discussing the terms for uniting the foreign Social-Democratic organisations by way of preliminary preparation of this question. With regard to point 1 a) we are decidedly against giving the address of the O.C. Foreign Section to the committees. This is absolutely unnecessary, given the present functions of the Foreign Section of the Organisational Committee. It is very unsafe from the standpoint of red tape and confusion. With regard to publication, it should be stated outright that everything will be published in *Iskra* (the formal basis for this is the recognition of *Iskra* by the majority of the committees). Other organisations should be formally recommended to reprint from *Iskra* all statements of the Organisational Committee.

With regard to the relations between the O.C. and the O.C. Foreign Section, we would advise that they be established as follows: the O.C. will communicate with Deutsch (Deutsch is the secretary of the O.C. Foreign Section, which also includes Alexander and Lokhov) by the channel it has. And you will communicate with Deutsch through us, as before. This is quite natural: the O.C. Foreign Section elected a secretary, and you confirmed him.

To the 2nd question we would advise answering in the affirmative, and to the 3rd, with an explanation that the agenda will be submitted and is already being drawn up.

Sent from London to Kharkov

First published in 1928

in Lenin Miscellany VIII

Printed from the manuscript