Considering that the presented draft resolutions and the debate on the organizational question have clearly revealed two principal tendencies within the RSDLP concerning the fundamental direction of contemporary organizational policy in general, — The Conference instructs the Commission to lay at the foundation of its work the principles of that tendency which recognizes that for work among the masses, remaining as heretofore the principal task of Social Democracy, the center of gravity must be transferred to the creation and strengthening of an illegal party organization, and that only under the unwavering influence of this organization can all work among the masses be correctly conducted, all influence on the Duma fraction be properly exerted, all activity of the party around the Duma fraction be correctly directed, and all utilization of legal and semi-legal organizations be achieved, without any diminution whatsoever of the class tasks of Social Democracy.

Submitted 24 December 1908 (6 January 1909)

Published before 28 January (10 February) 1909 in the "Notification of the Central Committee of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party on the Convened Regular All-Party Conference," published in Paris by the CC RSDLP

Printed according to the text of the "Notification"