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| Title | Revolutionary essays |
| Series Title | International socialist library, 15 |
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| Publisher | British Socialist Party |
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| Date | 1920 |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Extent | 46 pages; 18 cm. |
| Original Item Location | HX256.K84 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304436~S11 |
| Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
| Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
| Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
| Use and Reproduction | This item is in the public domain and may be used freely. |
| File Name | index.cpd |
| Title | Image 38 |
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| Transcript | u Social-Traitors, Unite !H ("Pravda," June 22, 1918.) The Mensheviks, perhaps, may in the near future have the opportunity of realising the hopes ascribed to them in the bourgeois evening papers. According to the latter, these gentlemen intend to oppose the Bolshevik "terror" by an appeal to the public opinion of the International. An "International" corresponding to the Menshevik views is already in the process of formation. Although the Dutch-Swedish commission, that abode of social-patriotism, has recently been dissolved—because, in the words of Huysmans, there is no) hope of an International Socialist Conference in the immediate future—the fathers of social-treachery continue their activity. They are alive, and are again trying to organise a new "International,"-of the various social-Chauvinist parties, to "defend society" against the Revolution. Kerensky's agent, Branting, will meet in London two "distinguished foreigners"—A. Thomas and Henderson, who did their utmost to hold in check the Russian Revolution. Vandervelde and Huysmans will take part in the conference. This MEntente International," whose greatest heroes—the late Ministers—will gather in London, will be a fitting body to respond to the appeal of the Mensheviks; for the former are just as much the enemies of the proletarian revolution as our own Social-Democratic pillars of capitalist society, recently excluded from the} Soviets. The Social-Democrats of the Central Powers, on the other hand, also lately carried on negotiations with the social-traitors of the Entente through the medium of Branting. The "tame" German Social-Democrats, together with the "official" Austrian and Hungarian Social-Democrats, received bulky packages from Branting containing materials for the forthcoming International Conference. These preparations already give a taste of what wonderful perspectives will open before such a conference. The Messrs. Legien and Co. have followed the example of the Russian Mensheviks. They have liquidated the German Social-Democratic industrial movement by amalgamating the "free" and "yellow" Trade Unions. It is just (36) I |