FOR INFORMING THE WORKERS' PRESS

OF AMERICA, FRANCE AND ENGLAND

I am prepared to answer your questions if you provide me with a completely formal and precise guarantee, first, that you will inform the entire workers' press, that is, also the organs of the press of an internationalist orientation (Haywood, SRP* in America,
Tom Mann and

* Here and hereafter such an asterisk marks headings given according to the source. Ed.

* Socialist Workers' Party in America. Ed.

British Socialist Party in England, Lorio and his friends in France, etc.),
and second, that my answer will be reproduced without any alterations whatsoever — that is, you have the right not to publish my answer, but if you do publish it, you have no right to change anything in my text.

Who is the responsible representative of your "international association" here in London, New York and Paris?

Lenin

(facsimile) and Romanian languages "Scinteia" No. 4740, Bucuresti

In Russian for the first time

Translated from the French

Written in November, before the 10th (23rd), 1917

First printed in French

January 26, 1960 in the newspaper printed January 27, 1960 in the newspaper "Pravda" No. 27

Printed from the manuscript