5. The Soviet government must immediately introduce workers' control on an all-state scale over production and consumption. Without this, as experience since May 6th has already demonstrated, all promises of reforms and attempts at their implementation are powerless, and famine together with an unprecedented catastrophe threatens the entire country from week to week.

It is necessary to immediately nationalize the banks and the insurance business, as well as the most important branches of industry (petroleum, coal, metallurgy, sugar and so forth), along with the unconditional abolition of commercial secrecy and the establishment of unwavering supervision on the part of workers and peasants over the insignificant minority of capitalists who are enriching themselves through government contracts and evading accountability and just taxation of their profits and property.

Such measures, taking not a single kopeck of property from either the middle peasants, or the Cossacks, or the petty artisans, are absolutely just for the equal bearing of the burdens of war and urgent for the struggle against hunger. Only by curbing the plunder of capitalists and putting an end to the deliberately engineered stoppage of production on their part can one achieve an increase in labor productivity, the establishment of universal labor obligation, the proper exchange of grain for industrial products, the return to the treasury of many billions in paper money being concealed by the wealthy.

Without such measures it is also impossible to carry out the abolition of landowner property in land without redemption, since landowner lands are for the most part mortgaged to the banks and the interests of landowners and capitalists are inextricably interwoven with one another.

The latest resolution of the economic section of the All-Russian CEC of the Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies ("Rabochaya Gazeta" No. 152) recognizes not only the "perniciousness" of the government's measures (such as raising grain prices for the enrichment of landowners and kulaks), not only the "fact of complete inactivity of the central organs of regulation of economic life established within the government," but even the "violation of laws" by this government. This recognition by the ruling parties of the Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks yet again demonstrates the full criminality of the policy of compromise with the bourgeoisie.