V. I.

Lenin

544

To:   INESSA ARMAND

Dear Friend, Please translate the enclosed resolution into French and
return it to me (after having a copy made for the Lausanne
German group). [1]

The resolution has been adopted here by the Lefts and is going
all round Switzerland.

We must try and get it circulated among all Party members and
passed through all Party organisations, however small.

Should even a single organisation, however small, adopt this
resolution, it should be sent officially to both the local and
central headquarters of the Party (Geschäftsleitung der
Soz. Partei. Zurich . Volkshaus) with a demand that it be
published.

Best regards, Yours, Lenin

P.S. I am sending a copy to Olga for Guilbeaux and one to Abramovich.

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Notes:
[1]
Lenin is referring to the resolution of the Swiss Lefts demanding that
a referendum be held on the question of convening the emergency party
congress, which was postponed indefinitely by a ruling of the Executive of
the Swiss Social-Democratic Party. The text of the resolution in German
with Lenin’s amendments is in the Central Party Archives of the Institute
of Marxism-Leninism under the C.C., C.P.S.U. The resolution of the Lefts
formed the basis of the referendum, which was held after the local
organisations had gone on record for having the congress convened in the
spring. On January 23, 1917, Volksrecht (No. 19) published an
appeal of the referendum sponsor group under the heading “Das Referendum
gegen den Parteivorstandsbeschlüss ergriffen” (“Referendum Against
Executive’s Decision Has Begun”).