Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 13 - From Marx to Mao

14PREFACEby Lenin and the Bolsheviks against opportunism in theinternational labour movement. The articles expose thedeviations of the German Social-Democrats from the positionsof revolutionary Marxism.For the first time in any collection of Lenin’s works,this volume contains the draft resolution of the ThirdConference of the R.S.D.L.P. (“Second All-Russian”) onthe question of participation in the elections to the ThirdDuma, “Outline of a Draft Resolution on the All-RussianCongress of Trade Unions”, the note “On Plekhanov’s Article”,and “Statement of the Editors of Proletary”.In the “Preface to the Pamphlet by Voinov (A. V. Lunacharsky)on the Attitude of the Party Towards the TradeUnions”, also included for the first time in Lenin’s CollectedWorks, Lenin opposes the slogan of “neutrality” ofthe trade unions and urges the necessity of close alignmentof the trade unions with the Party with a view to developingthe socialist consciousness of the proletariat and educatingthe latter in the spirit of revolutionary Social-Democracy.