We are informed that the International Bureau has received a reply from the organized Marxists regarding the Bureau's proposal to intervene in the affairs of Russian social-democracy. Below we present the essential parts of this reply.

Having received the "Supplement" to No. 11 of the "Periodic Bulletin of the International Bureau," the representation of organized Marxists of Russia considers it its duty to express profound gratitude to the International Bureau and its Executive Committee for their support of the workers' movement and for their concern for its strengthening and consolidation through the assurance of its unity.

The state of affairs among Russian Marxists appears at the present time in the following manner.

The general state of affairs in 1907–1908 provoked a terrible ideological crisis among the Marxists and a disintegration of organizations. In both 1908 and 1910, the organized Marxists formally recognized the existence of the liquidationist current, which was liquidating, negating the old and dreaming of a new, open party. This current was decisively and irrevocably condemned by formal resolution. But the liquidationists did not submit to the decisions and continued their schismatic and destructive work against the "whole."

In January 1912, the Marxist whole was restored against the liquidationists, who were recognized as standing outside it.

Since that time, the overwhelming majority of conscious workers in Russia has rallied around the decisions adopted in January 1912 and the leading body elected at that time. This fact, known to all workers in Russia, can and must be confirmed by objective facts in view of the incredible abundance of completely baseless and flagrantly false assertions disseminated by the liquidationists and scattered foreign groups:

1) The electoral law in Russia distinguishes workers in a special workers' curia. Of the deputies to the State Duma elected according to this curia, Bolsheviks comprised – in the II Duma 47% (1907){39}, in the III Duma (1907–1912) – 50% and in the IV Duma (1912–1914) – 67%.

The elections to the IV Duma took place in September 1912, and the majority (%) won proved the complete victory of organized Marxism over liquidationism.

2) In April 1912, a daily Marxist newspaper, *Pravda*, was established. Against it, the liquidationists created a competing, schismatic organ in Petersburg, *Luch*. Over two years, from January 1, 1912 to January 1, 1914, the liquidationists' newspaper, together with all its helpers in the form of numerous foreign groups and the Bund, received assistance from, according to the newspaper's own accounts, 750 workers' groups, whereas during the same period the *Pravda*, fighting for the Marxist line, united 2,801 workers' groups.

3) In early 1914, elections took place in Petersburg from the workers of mutual aid societies to the All-Russian Insurance Council and the Capital Insurance Presence. Workers elected 5 persons and 10 deputies to the first institution, and 2 persons and 4 deputies to the second. In both cases, the complete lists of supporters of *Pravda* were elected. At the latter elections, the numbers established for the chairmanship were: supporters of *Pravda* – 37 persons, liquidationists – 7 persons, Populists – 4 persons, and abstainers – 5 persons.

We limit ourselves to these briefest factual reports. From them it is evident that the actual unity of Marxists in Russia is steadily advancing and has already achieved the rallying of the majority of conscious workers on the basis of the January 1912 decisions.

Further, the document proceeds to a characterization of the disorganizing work of individual foreign groups and liquidationists who are stubbornly attempting to thwart the will of the majority of workers in Russia.

Abroad, there now operate, apart from party members and liquidationists, no fewer than five separate Russian social-democratic groups, not counting the national ones. During two full years, 1912 and 1913, there was not the slightest trace of objective evidence anywhere of the connection of these foreign groups with the workers' movement in Russia. The liquidationists formed in August 1912 what is called the "August Block," which included, among others, Trotsky, the Bund, and Latvian social-democracy. The fictitious character of this "block," which in fact concealed the liquidationists, was pointed out long ago. Now this "block" has completely disintegrated: the February 1914 congress of Latvian social-democracy resolved to recall its representatives from the block, inasmuch as the block did not dissociate itself from the liquidationists. Trotsky too in February 1914 founded a journal of his group, in which he reinforces his declarations about unity with his own split from the August Block!

The "Organizational Committee," representing the "August Block" at the present time, is pure fiction, and it stands to reason that no relations whatsoever with this fiction are possible. If the liquidationists speak of "unity" and "equality of rights," it should be noted that the first task of supporters of unity is to renounce the disorganization of the vast majority of workers who have rallied together and to decisively repudiate the liquidationists, the destroyers of the "whole." Talk of "unity" from the lips of the liquidationists is as much mockery of the actual unity of the majority of workers in Russia as if the "party of Allemane-Cambié" in France or the "PPS" in Germany were to speak of unity.

Further, the authors address themselves to the Executive Committee of the International Socialist Bureau with an urgent request to accelerate by all means an "exchange of opinions between all factions of social-democracy on disputed questions" (resolution of the December 1913 session of the International Bureau), so that before an impartial collegium the entire fictitious character of the "August Block" and the liquidationists' "Organizational Committee" and all their disorganizing activity against the united majority of social-democratic workers of Russia might be exposed before the International.

*Put' Pravdy* No. 61, April 15, 1914

Printed according to the text of the newspaper *Put' Pravdy*