V. I.

Lenin

Statement of Resignation from the Party Council and from the Editorial Board of the Central Organ [1]

Inasmuch as I do not share the opinion of G. V. Plekhanov, member of the Party Council and of the
editorial board of the Central Organ, that it will be in the interest
of Party unity at the present time to make a concession to the
Martovites and co-opt the board of six, I hereby resign from the Party
Council and from the editorial board of the Central Organ.

N. Lenin

Geneva

November 1, 1903

P.S. At all events, I by no means refuse to support the new central Party institutions by my work, to the best
of my ability.

Handed to Plekhanov November 1, 1903

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Notes:
[1]
Lenin resigned from the Party Council and the editorial board of the Central
Organ after Plekhanov openly swung over to the Mensheviks and proposed
co-opting to the Iskra editorial board all the former editors the
Second Party Congress had rejected.

On November 5 (18) Lenin requested Plekhanov to insert in
Iskra an announcement of his resignation from the editorial board
(p. 113 of this volume). The changes in the membership of the
board were announced in No. 53 of the new, Menshevik Iskra
(November 25, 1903).