A municipal platform in no way can be reduced, especially in the present revolutionary time, to municipal questions alone.

It must also consist of a definite answer to all the fundamental questions of contemporary politics, in particular to the questions of war and of the tasks of the proletariat in relation to central authority.

And on municipal questions, such as the militia, provisions, housing, and taxation, we cannot expect the agreement of petty bourgeois parties to the revolutionary measures necessary for the struggle against war and its consequences.

For all these reasons it is necessary to enter the elections without blocs under the banner of a principled program of the proletarian party, explaining to the people the fundamental distinction among three main groups of parties: 1) the Kadets and those to their right; 2) the parties of the petty bourgeoisie (populists) and the section of workers who have succumbed to bourgeois influence (Menshevik defensists) and 3) the party of the revolutionary proletariat (Bolsheviks).

The technical conditions of elections, proceeding according to the system of proportional representation, make blocs technically superfluous.

With the Mensheviks, who in fact are breaking with revolutionary defeatism and support of the Provisional Government, it is desirable in every way to maintain rapprochement and mutual acquaintance on the basis of practical work; it is permitted to constitute joint lists with such comrades, on condition of sufficient solidarity in essentials. It is necessary to work out a concrete proposal for a municipal program, especially on the question of a proletarian militia, paid for by the capitalists.