THE RESOLUTION OF A PLENARY MEETING OF THE MOSCOW-NARVA DISTRICT COMMITTEE

From THE RESOLUTION OF A PLENARY MEETING OF THE MOSCOW-NARVA DISTRICT COMMITTEE OF THE RCP(B), LENINGRAD, JOINTLY WITH PARTY FUNCTIONARIES

November 1924

(Present: 209 persons. Resolution carried unanimously)

Having heard and deliberated the report on the plenary meeting of the Gubernia Committee and, in particular, on Trotsky’s new article “The Lessons of the October Revolution”, the Plenary Meeting of the Moscow-Narva District Committee jointly with Party functionaries resolves:

l. To subscribe wholly and completely to the decisions of the extended plenary meeting of the Gubernia Committee of November 10 on the report on the October plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the RCP(B).

2. To recognise Trotsky’s action as a direct continuation of his factional activities and policy in the Party, which have been time and again condemned by Party congresses. This time Trotsky has elaborated a more or less full and integral platform, a programme of his faction.

In practice, the aim of this programme is to effect a radical change in the Central Committee, in its Political Bureau and in the leading bodies of the Comintern. Theoretically this programme is the first most systematic attempt to revise Leninism and Trotskyise the Bolshevik Party.

Both the practical objective and the theoretical idea of the article “Lessons of the October Revolution” are not new in Trotsky’s factional policy. It only repeats his old errors and old anti- Bolshevik policy.

This article upholds and gives more distinct shape to his contraposition of himself to the Central Committee, his accusations of “opportunism” and “degeneration” levelled at veteran Bolshevik cadres, his justification of his erroneous theoretical and political line before and after the October Revolution on key questions of the revolution, and other propositions which he expounded in all his pronouncements on the eve of the Thirteenth Party Congress.

All this goes to show that Trotsky has not admitted his errors in the Party discussion at the Thirteenth Congress and refuses to admit them to this day, that by having accused the leading cadres of “opportunism”, of pursuing a “Right-wing policy”, during the discussion, he holds similar views with regard to the Party CC (particularly with regard to its leading cadres) to this day.

Thus, in spite of the decisions of the Thirteenth Congress of the RCP(B), Trotsky is continuing to oppose the genuinely Leninist policy of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) follower of Lenin, and the leaders of our Party who are true to the teaching and precepts of Leninism.

Such a policy cannot be tolerated in the Party. Trotskyism must be uprooted from our ranks.

The Plenary Meeting of the District Committee jointly with Party functionaries considers it necessary to adopt the most determined measures, in accordance with the resolutions of the Tenth and Thirteenth Party congresses, against this unceasing factional activity by Trotsky and generally against all factional actions regardless of whether they emanate from individual Party members or from individual groups.

The Party in the Struggle for the
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RESOLUTION OF AN EXTENDED PLENARY MEETING

OF THE VYBORG DISTRICT COMMITTEE OF THE RCP(B), LENINGRAD

November 1924

(Present: 65 persons. Resolution carried unanimously)

Having heard and discussed the report on Trotsky’s new pronouncement (the article “Lessons of the October Revolution”), the extended plenary meeting of the Vyborg District Committee of the CP(B) 

considers it necessary to declare that this article distorts the history of our Party and of our Leningrad organisation and is, thereby, a fresh attack on the Party.

The District Committee considers that another discussion cannot be permitted at a time when the entire Party is engaged in extremely important practical work. However, the District Committee considers that the leading Party organs must take the most determined measures against distortions of the history of the Party, against this new revision of Leninism undertaken by Trotsky.

The Party in the Struggle for the

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RESOLUTION OF AN EXTENDED PLENARY MEETING OF THE PARTY COMMITTEE

OF THE CENTRAL DISTRICT, LENINGRAD, JOINTLY WITH PARTY COLLECTIVE

AND SHOP ORGANISERS

November 1924

(Present: 257 persons. Resolution carried unanimously with 1 abstention)

Having heard and discussed the report of Comrade Naumov on Trotsky’s latest pronouncement in the foreword to the book The Year 1917, the extended Plenary Meeting of the Party District Committee of the Central City District jointly with Party collective and shop organisers considers that this was an anti-Bolshevik pronouncement. It revises the principles of Leninism and distorts the history of our Party with the aim of de-Bolshevising it. It represents an attempt to push the Party into another discussion and prepare the ground for factions.

The extended Plenary Meeting considers that with this pronouncement, which is utterly impermissible for a member of the Bolshevik Party, Trotsky flouts the decisions of the Thirteenth Congress of the RCP(B) and the Fifth World Congress of the Comintern on the Bolshevisation of the Communist parties and contraposes himself to the Communist International and our Party.

Proceeding from the above-said, the extended Plenary Meeting of the District Committee resolves:

To send a strong protest to the Central Committee against the anti-Bolshevik actions of Trotsky and his attempts to revise the principles of Leninism.

To request the Gubernia Committee to call Trotsky to order as a member of the CC and a Party member through the CC and the CCC. We consider that the sternest Party penalties must be applied for such pronouncements.

To call upon young Party members to make a particularly close study of the principles of Leninism and steel their Bolshevik spirit in struggle with Trotsky’s revisionist attempts.

The Party in the Struggle for the

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