V. I.

Lenin

TO THE EDITORS OF PUT PRAVDY

ON THE QUESTION OF THE ARTICLES ABOUT IRELAND

I would ask the editorial board to let me know whether my second
article [1] is being published. It ought to be.
If there is no room, drop me a line. Otherwise I cannot
write the continuation.

I ask you particularly not to be late (as you were with
No. 2 of Borba ) in sending me Yedinstvo : the “pro-Party
Bolsheviks” [2] on it should, in my opinion, be held up
as a laughing-stock, with the straightforward statement
that they are zeros, who have never had a single coherent
thought on a single question. And Plekhanov should be told: it is a pity that he is now nullifying his great services
in the struggle against the liquidators during the period
of disorganisation, in the struggle against the Machists
at the height of Machism, by preaching what he himself cannot explain. Unity with whom , then? with Nasha Zarya ?
with Severnaya Rabochaya Gazeta ?—and on what terms?

We stand for unity, on precisely specified terms, which
have long since been approved by the majority of the workers’ , start from below, enter the underground organisation,
prove by deeds your refusal to join in liquidating the Party.

Not all who “cry” unity understand what unity is, or help to bring it about. Those who destroy the will of the
majority of the workers are not unifiers but disrupters.

( A struggle against Plekhanov is unavoidable, now that
he has become involved in this idiotic affair, but he should
be set apart from Lyova and Mark, with the emphasis that
he had done service, but it is a pity that he is once again
on the roundabout.)

Write me more frequently, even if briefly. Otherwise it is hard to get the co-operation going.

A thousand greetings to the paper, which has become
1,000 times better! Best wishes of every success!

Send me Nos. 8 and 36–38 of Severnaya Rabochaya Gazeta
No. 43 of Put Pravdy .

I haven’t received Deborin or any other books from Prosveshcheniye although I have asked for them more than once.
Write about the plan for the next issue.