CALL OF THE MOSCOW SOVIET AND THE MAJOR REVOLUTIONARY PARTIES IN MOSCOW TO PREPARE FOR THE ARMED UPRISING,
TO ALL WORKERS, SOLDIERS, AND CITIZENS
Since October 17 when the working class forcefully tore the promise of various liberties and the "actual" inviolability of the person from the tsarist government, violence on the part of the government did not only not cease but even increased, and human blood is flowing as usual.
Free gatherings where free words can be heard are scattered with weapons. Trade and political unions are cruelly persecuted. Free newspapers are closed by tens. Prison is threatened for striking.
Such mockeries and violations are made of the actual "inviolability" of the Russian citizen, that the blood freezes in one's veins.
Again the prisons are being crammed full of fighters for liberty. Entire counties and provinces are being put under martial law. Hungry peasants are being beaten and shot without mercy.
Sailors and soldiers not wanting to be fratricides and Joining their people fester in prisons and are drowned and killed.
If all the blood and tears spilled through the guilt of the government only in October were gathered, the government would drown in them, comrades!
But with special hatefulness the tsarist government comes down on the working class: concluding an agreement with the capitalists , it throws hundreds of' thousands of workers out on the street, dooming them to pauperism and a hungry death.
It places deputies and workers' leaders in prison by tens and hundreds.
It threatens to take "exceptional" measures against the representatives of the Social-Democratic Labor Party and the party of Socialist-Revolutionaries.
It has again organized the Black Hundreds and threatens new mass murders and pogroms.
The revolutionary proletariat can no longer tolerate the mockeries and crimes of the tsarist government and declares a decisive and unrelenting war against it.
Comrades workers? We, your elected deputies, the Moscow Committee, the Moscow Group, the Moscow District Organization of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, and the Moscow Committee of the Party of Socialist Revolutionaries declare a general political strike and call you to drop and stop your work at all factories and plants and in all business and government enterprises on Wednesday, December 7, st 12 o'clock.
Long live the unrelenting struggle with the criminal tsarist government.
Comrades soldiers, you are our blood brothers, children, together with us of the same mother, long-suffering Russia. You have already acknowledged and confirmed this through your participation in the general struggle. Today when the proletariat declares a decisive war on the hateful enemy of the people--the tsarist government--you also act with determination and solidarity.
Refuse to submit to your blood thirsty leadership, expel them and arrest them. Elect reliable leaders from among yourselves and with weapons in your hands, unite with the rising people. Together with the working class, obtain the abolition of the army and the general arming of the people. Obtain the abolition of military courts and martial law.
Long live the union of the revolutionary proletariat with the revolutionary army!
Long live the struggle for general freedom!
And you citizens, who truly thirst for widespread freedom, help the rising workers and soldiers as much as you can--by personal participation and general means. The proletariat and the army struggle for the liberty and happiness oi' all Russia and all the people. The entire future of Russia is placed on a card; life or death, liberty or slavery!
With our united strength we will finally overthrow the criminal tsarist government, convoke a constituent assembly based on general, equal, direct, and secret suffrage, and asset a democratic republic which alone can guarantee broad freedom and actual inviolability of the person.
Long live the general strike and armed uprising
Long live the popular constituent assembly!
Long live the democratic republic!
The Moscow Soviet of Workers Deputies
The Moscow Committee RSDLP
The Moscow Group
The Moscow district Organization
The Moscow Committee of the party of Socialist revolutionaries.
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