Antisemitism is the name given to the spread of hostility toward Jews. When the accursed tsarist monarchy was living out its final days, it sought to incite the benighted workers and peasants against Jews. The tsarist police, in alliance with landlords and capitalists, organized Jewish pogroms. Landlords and capitalists sought to direct the hatred of workers and peasants, tormented by want, toward Jews. And in other countries one frequently sees capitalists inflaming hostility toward Jews in order to throw dust in the eyes of the worker, in order to divert their gaze from the true enemy of the toiling masses—from capital. Hostility toward Jews persists firmly only where the bondage of landlords and capitalists has created impenetrable darkness among workers and peasants. Only completely benighted, completely downtrodden people can believe the lies and slanders spread against Jews. This is a remnant of the old serf times, when priests compelled the burning of heretics at the stake, when the enslavement of peasants existed, when the people were crushed and voiceless. This old serf-era darkness is passing. The people are gaining sight.

Jews are not the enemies of the toiling masses. The enemies of workers are capitalists of all countries. Among Jews there are workers, laborers—they are the majority. They are our brothers in oppression by capital, our comrades in the struggle for socialism. Among Jews there are kulaks, exploiters, capitalists, just as among Russians, just as among all nations. Capitalists strive to sow and inflame hostility between workers of different faiths, different nations, different races. The non-working people are held in place by the force and power of capital. Rich Jews, like rich Russians, like rich men of all countries, in alliance with one another, oppress, subjugate, plunder, and divide the workers.

Shame upon the accursed tsarism that tortured and persecuted Jews. Shame upon those who sow hostility toward Jews, who sow hatred toward other nations.

Long live the fraternal trust and fighting alliance of workers of all nations in the struggle for the overthrow of capital.