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

THE THIRD CONFERENCE OF THE R.S.D.L.P.61(a) to take part in the elections to the Third Duma too;(b) to explain to the masses the connection of the coupd’état of 3-VI-1907 with the defeat of the December uprisingof 1905, as well as with the betrayals by the liberalbourgeoisie, while at the same time showing the inadequacyof trade-union struggle alone and striving to convertthe trade-union strike movement into a political anddirect revolutionary struggle of the masses for the overthrowof the tsarist government by means of an uprising;(c) to explain to the masses that the boycott of the Dumais not by itself capable of raising the working-class movementand the revolutionary struggle to a higher level, andthat the tactics of boycott could be appropriate only providedour efforts to convert the trade-union upswing into arevolutionary assault were successful.2OUTLINE OF A DRAFT RESOLUTIONON THE ALL-RUSSIAN CONGRESSOF TRADE UNIONSThe Conference considers it the duty of all membersof the Party energetically to carry out the London Congressresolution on the trade unions, all local conditions beingtaken into consideration when effecting organisationalcontacts between the trade unions and the Social-DemocraticParty or when the latter’s leadership is accepted by theformer, and always, under all conditions, paying primaryattention that the Social-Democrats in the trade unionsshould not confine themselves to passive accommodationto a “neutral” platform—a favourite practice of all shadesof bourgeois-democratic trends (Cadets, non-party Progressists,33 Socialist-Revolutionaries, etc.,)—but shouldsteadfastly uphold the Social-Democratic views in their entiretyand should steadfastly promote acceptance by thetrade unions of the Social-Democrats’ ideological leadershipand the establishment of permanent and effective organisationalcontacts with the trade unions.Written in July 1907First published in 1933,in Lenin Miscellany XXVPublished accordingto the manuscript