V. I.

Lenin

Izvestia of the Petrograd Soviet published today the
Executive Committee’s “Terms of Reference” for the organisation
of a commission for convening an international conference. Our
Party, among others, is asked to send a representative to the
commission. Needless to say, our Party will take no part either
in the commission or in any joint conference with so-called
socialist ministers who have gone over to their bourgeoisie. This should be well known to anyone who has taken
any interest in our Party, or who has read our resolution
concerning the state of affairs in the International.

Our Party’s Central Committee unanimously decided a few days ago
to send a delegate to the forthcoming Zimmerwald Conference with
instructions to immediately walk out of that Conference and
withdraw from the Zimmerwald group in the event of the Conference declaring in favour of
any association or joint discussion with the social-chauvinists .

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