V. I. Lenin

Outline of a Report to Local Organisations on the Poronin Joint Conference of the R.S.D.L.P. C.C. and Party Functionaries (1913) {1}

Outline of a Report to Local Organisations

December 12

Generaltheme—events of the strike movement and Party life since the
summer of 1913. Conference resolutions. In particular, the following points
are brought out:

1.A general strike on January 9, 1914. Conference decision. Necessity
of the strike. Its slogans (democratic republic, 8–hour working day, confiscation of landed estates). Intensified
preparations for the strike.

2. Insurance campaign . More extensive circulation of the
magazine Voprosy Strakhovaniya . {2} —Formation of Party cells inside all
societies and all boards. Getting our own, Party, majority on the
boards (also in trade unions, clubs, etc., etc.).

3. The Six and the Seven . The main reasons for the
split:
(a) liquidationism=destruction of the Party. Struggle over that . The Seven incline to liquidationism; (b) the Seven
do not recognise Party decisions; (c) the majority of the Party has been proved to back the Six. Main figures from
Pravda . Issues with material on the question of the split
should he on hand. (Resolutions for the Six should be pressed forward.)

4. Party congress. Necessity of it. Participation in it of all
illegal Party cells. Its preparation:
money is the main thing. Collection of fund for congress (mainly through the deputies). The task for each group or union of
groups is by the spring to collect double the amount of expenses
(expenses per delegate—150 rubles. Each group or union of adjacent groups
must collect 300 rubles).

5. The need to develop ties—to strengthen them (teaching
correspondence with the St. Petersburg Bureau and the Bureau Abroad). The
correspondence is weak: that is why transport is poor. There must
be agents everywhere.

6.A review of the main points from the resolutions of the
conference. For instance, on the national question: (a) struggle against
every brand of nationalism, even the refined one (cultural-national
autonomy); (b) unity of workers of all nationalities; (c) struggle
against Great-Russian Black-Hundred nationalism. (Idem briefly
about the other resolutions.)

7. Legal and illegal press. Increase collections. The legal press will
inevitably go down : concentrate efforts on creating an illegal one
(see “Announcement”, pp. 9–10 especially).