V. I.

Lenin

Note on a Resolution of the Conference of R.S.D.L.P. Organisations Abroad [1]

From the Editors . The measure in which the Central Committee of the
R.S.D.L.P. is working energetically for unity is to be seen in its Open Letter
to the Organising Committee, which is published in the present issue. We would
only like to remind the reader that for unification a common ground of
organisation is needed. The only such ground we are aware of to date is the
Rules of the R.S.D.L.P., which were adopted at the Party’s Third Congress, and
fully guarantee the legitimate rights of a minority.

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Notes:
[1]
The conference of R.S.D.L.P. organisations abroad (of
Bolshevik and Menshevik representatives) was held in the summer of
1905. Party branches in South Germany were represented at the
conference, whose resolution spoke of the need for a unity congress of
the Party to be called, so as to resolve the problem of unification
with the seceding section of the R.S.D.L.P. (the Mensheviks). The
resolution was published in No. 12 of Proletary , with a note
“from the Editors” written by Lenin.