Amendments and Remarks to the Draft Rules of the Foreign Organisation of Russian Revolutionary Social-Democracy
Поправки и замечания к проекту устава заграничной организации русской революционной социал-демократии
Date: 1901
Source: PSS vol 5
Translated by: AI (Claude)

Rules

*Points 4 and 5 were crossed out by Lenin. On separate sheets he wrote the following text of point 5. -- Ed.

*This point was crossed out by Lenin. -- Ed.

**This point was crossed out by an unknown hand. -- Ed.

16. All matters are decided by the administration by a simple majority of votes.

17. All monetary sums received by members of the organisation for the revolutionary cause go into the common fund.

18. All incoming sums are spent on: 1) general administration, 2) the publication of Iskra, 3) the publication of the "Workers' Library," 4) the publication of Zarya.

19. New members are admitted upon the recommendation of 5 members of the organisation and with the consent of a majority of 2/3 of all members of the organisation.

20. Members are expelled from the organisation by a majority of 2/3 of all members of the organisation.

21. In those cities where there are several members of the organisation, all their activity, with the exception of special assignments from the administration, must be collective.

22. In the event of the dissolution of the organisation, the printing presses and stores are returned to the original owners.

Written between April 24 (May 7) and July 11 (24), 1901

Published for the first time, from the manuscript