They Have Forgotten the Main Thing (The municipal platform of the proletarian party) Published in Pravda No. 49, May 18 (5), 1917.Elections to the district councils being close at hand, the two petty-bourgeois democratic parties, the Narodniks and the Mensheviks, have come out with high-sounding platforms.
Defence of Imperialism Cloaked with Deceptive Phrases Published in Pravda No. 47, May 16 (3), 1917.That is what the proclamation of the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet to the socialists of the world, published in today’s papers, amounts to. It has a lot to say against imperialism, but all these words are nullified by a single little phrase which reads:“The Provisional Government of revolutionary Russia has adopted this platform” (i.e., peace without annexations and indemnities on the basis of self-determination of nations).
Anxiety Published in Pravda No. 44, May 12 (April 29), 1917.In connection with the report that several ex-ministers had accepted directorships of big banks, Pravda asked:“In how many banks do the present ministers, Guchkov, Tereshchenko, and Konovalov—have an interest (in the capacity of directors, shareholders, or actual owners)?”
