Taking into account,

1) that active boycott, as the experience of the Russian revolution has demonstrated, is the correct tactic of social-democracy only in circumstances of broad, general and rapid revolutionary upsurge, transitioning into armed uprising, and only in connection with the ideological task of struggle against constitutional illusions upon the convening by the old authority of the first representative assembly;

2) that in the absence of these conditions, the correct tactic of revolutionary social-democracy requires participation in elections even given the presence of all conditions of a revolutionary epoch, as this was indeed the case at the II Duma;

3) that social-democracy, which has always pointed out the Octobrist essence of the Cadet party and the instability of the Cadet electoral law (11. XII. 1905){23} under the conditions of autocracy, has no grounds whatsoever for changing its tactic as a result of its replacement with an Octobrist electoral law;

4) that the strike movement currently developing in the central industrial region of Russia, constituting the most significant pledge of a possible revolutionary upsurge in the near future, at the same time requires persistent work on transforming what is thus far only a professional movement into a political and directly revolutionary one, connected with armed uprising, the conference resolves:

a) to take part in the elections and in the III Duma;

b) to explain to the masses the connection between the coup d'état of 3. VI. 1907 with the defeat of the December uprising of 1905 and with the treacheries of the liberal bourgeoisie, while at the same time demonstrating the insufficiency of professional struggle alone and striving to transform the professional strike movement into a political one and into the direct revolutionary struggle of the masses for the overthrow of the tsarist government through uprising;

c) to explain to the masses that the boycott of the Duma is in itself incapable of raising the workers' movement and revolutionary struggle to a higher level, and that the tactic of boycott could become appropriate only on the condition of success in our efforts to transform the professional upsurge into a revolutionary offensive.