No party member will remain passive

 June 28, 1917

Comrades!

The party congress is approaching. One of the points on the agenda of the congress is: elections to the Constituent Assembly.

In the moment we are experiencing, the aggravation of class contradictions has reached the highest tension. In the recent city elections in Petrograd and many other cities, the class grouping showed itself with complete clarity.

The entire bourgeoisie has united in the party of the so-called "People's Freedom" - the Cadet Party; this party is fully supported by all the Black Hundreds, all the monarchists. This is the party of the rich, the party of outspoken supporters of the imperialist war, the party of robbery and violence against foreign peoples, as well as against their own people.

The petty bourgeoisie of town and country, the philistine masses, the middle peasantry, the backward strata of the workers followed the defensist bloc of Mensheviks, Socialist-Revolutionaries, Popular Socialists, Trudoviks and the Unity group. This bloc, a bloc of government parties, is actually following the imperialist bourgeoisie, bringing disintegration into the ranks of the internationalist working class.

The working class, with the urban and rural poor adjoining it, is rallying more and more closely around our Party. He is more and more fully aware that only she protects his interests to the end, that only she is capable of leading the whole country out of the unbearably difficult situation to which the three-year war and the economic devastation caused by it led. He realizes more and more fully that only our party is waging a resolute revolutionary struggle for an early end to the war, for the abolition of the rule of capitalism, for the abolition of exploitation, for the rule of socialism.

All parties, the Cadet, as well as the petty-bourgeois defensive ones, are waging the most irreconcilable struggle with us, not disdaining at the same time by any means. They have much more material and technical resources at their disposal.

The election campaign for the Constituent Assembly will require huge funds. They are not at our disposal. If the workers themselves do not come to the aid of their party, we cannot develop broad agitation among the masses.

All those who are for an early end to the war, who are for the development of the workers' revolution in Russia and the West, who are for the abolition of the rule of the bourgeoisie, all workers, all the poorest strata of the population, we call on the most energetic work. We call on all workers to deduct one day's wages, and if this is no longer possible, at least half a day's earnings to the cashier of the Party Central Committee. We call on all those who sympathize with us to collect. Time is running out. Everyone to work! We'll set the day of the gatherings everywhere. The Central Committee asks each local organization to immediately appoint an exact day for the collection and deduction of earnings. Let the collection be made by July 10-15 so that at the Party Congress we know what we can have at our disposal.

Let no party member remain passive! The broadest agitation in favor of the party!

Central Committee of the RSDLP

We ask all party newspapers to reprint this appeal.

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