1. The situation in the country is becoming increasingly acute. The domination of reactionary landlords is provoking ever greater murmuring even among the most moderate strata of the population. Standing in the way of any genuinely real political freedom in Russia continues to be the tsarist monarchy, hostile to any serious reform, protecting only the power and incomes of the serf-owners and suppressing with particular brutality any manifestation of the workers' movement.

2. The working class continues to come forward as the leader in the revolutionary struggle for national liberation. The mass revolutionary strike continues to develop. The actual struggle of the advanced detachments of the working class is taking place under revolutionary slogans.

The mass economic movement, often beginning with the most elementary demands, by virtue of the entire situation of struggle, is increasingly merging with the revolutionary movement of the working class.

The task of the advanced workers is, through their work of agitation and enlightenment, to accelerate the rallying of the proletariat under the revolutionary slogans of the epoch. Only under this condition will the advanced workers also fulfill their task of awakening the peasant and urban democracy.

3. The struggle of the working class, proceeding under revolutionary slogans, has forced a part of the industrialists and the liberal-Octobrist bourgeoisie to speak insistently of the necessity of reforms in general and of a truncated freedom of coalition in particular. On the one hand, feverishly organizing themselves into employers' unions, introducing insurance against strikes and demanding from the government systematic persecution of the workers' movement, the bourgeoisie, on the other hand, recommends that the workers, instead of revolutionary demands, confine themselves to a separate constitutional reform, a semblance of freedom of coalition. The working class must utilize all possible vacillations of the government, as well as those disagreements which exist between the bourgeoisie and the reactionary camp, to strengthen its assault both in the economic sphere and in the sphere of political struggle. But the working class precisely in order to successfully utilize the situation must remain on the ground of untruncated revolutionary slogans.

4. Under such a general state of affairs, the task of social-democracy is to continue to conduct broad revolutionary agitation among the masses for the overthrow of the monarchy and for a democratic republic. It is necessary, through vivid examples from actual reality, to tirelessly demonstrate all the harm of reformism, that is, the tactic which instead of revolutionary slogans puts forward the demand for partial improvements as its center.

5. In their agitation for freedom of coalition and for partial reforms in general, the liquidators fall into the liberal path. They in fact deny revolutionary agitation among the masses; they directly preach in their organs that the slogans "democratic republic" and "confiscation of lands" cannot serve as the subject of agitation among the masses. Freedom of coalition they put forward as the all-encompassing slogan of the epoch, in fact substituting it for the revolutionary demands of 1905.

6. While warning against the harmful reformist agitation of the liquidators, the conference recalls that the RSDLP in its minimum program long ago put forward the demand for freedom of coalition, of speech, of the press, etc., placing all these demands in close connection with the revolutionary struggle for the overthrow of the tsarist monarchy. The conference confirms the resolution of the January 1912 conference, which states: "The Conference calls upon all social-democrats to explain to the workers the entire necessity for the proletariat of freedom of coalition, and it is necessary constantly to place this demand in indissoluble connection with our general political demands and revolutionary agitation among the masses."[6] {27}

The main slogans of the epoch remain: 1) democratic republic, 2) confiscation of landlords' lands, 3) the 8-hour working day. Freedom of coalition enters into them as a part into the whole.