1. Whereas the proletariat being, by virtue of its position, the foremost andonly consistently revolutionary class, is therefore called upon to play the leading role in the general democratic revolutionary movement in Russia;
2. Whereas this movement at the present time has already led to the necessity ofan armed uprising;
3. Whereas the proletariat will inevitably take the most energetic part in thisuprising, which participation will decide the destiny of the revolution in Russia;
4. Whereas the proletariat can play the leading role in this revolution only if it is united, in a single and independent political force under the bannerof the Social-Democratic Labour Party, which directs its struggle bothideologically and practically; and
5. Whereas only’ the performance of this role will ensure to the proletariat the most advantageous conditions for the struggle forsocialism against the propertied classes of bourgeois-democratic Russia;—
Therefore, the Third Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. holdsthat the task of organising the proletariat for direct struggleagainst the autocracy by means of the armed uprising is one of themajor and most urgent tasks of the Party at the present revolutionarymoment.
Accordingly, the Congress instructs all Party organisations:
a) to explain to the proletariat by means of propaganda and agitation, not only the political significance, but the practical organisational aspect of the impending armed up rising.
b) to explain in that propaganda and agitation the role of mass political strikes, which may be of great importance at the beginning and during the progress of the uprising, and
c) to take the most energetic steps towards arming the proletariat, as well as drawing up a plan of the armed up rising and of direct leadership thereof, for which purpose special groups of Party workers should be formed as and when necessary.
| Written April 16 (29), 1905 | |
| Published according to the manuscript |
[1] The document has no heading. The title has been provided by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism, Central Committee, C.P.S.U.
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