V. I. Lenin

TASKS OF
THE LEFT ZIMMERWALDISTS
IN THE SWISS
SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC PARTY


 

Written in late October
and early November 1916
 
First published (in French)
as a pamphlet in 1918
 
First published in Russian in 1924
in the magazine Proletarskaya
Revolutsia
No. 4 (27)


Published according to
the manuscript 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 




From V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, 4th English Edition,
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1964

Vol. 23, pp. 137-48.

Translated from the Russian by
M. S. Levin, Joe Fineberg and Others
Edited by M. S. Levin


Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo,
djr@marx2mao.org
 (May 2002)

TASKS OF THE LEFT ZIMMERWALDISTS IN THE SWISS SOCIAL-
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
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137

I.
 
II.
 
III.
 
IV.
 
V.

Attitude Towards the War and Towards the Bourgeois
Government in General .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
The High Cost of Living and the Intolerable Economic
Conditions of the Masses .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
Pressing Democratic Reforms and Utilisation of the
Political Struggle and Parliamentarism .  .  .  .  .  .
The Immediate Tasks of Party Propaganda, Agitation
and Organisation.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
International Tasks of the Swiss Social-Democrats .


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