given their assent to the ruling class for the war have placed themselves at the disposal of governrious services, they have through their press and es sought to win neutrals to the governmental policy tries, they have sent Socialist ministers into the s whips to guard civil peace, and thereby they have, rking class, for the present and the future, accepted for this war, its objects and its methods. And like ndividual parties, the official representative of the ll countries, the international Socialist bureau, has have brought about a condition where the interng class that was not directly carried away by the of the first days of war, or that has freed itself ic, have not yet been able, in the second year of ad ways and means to bring their effective power peace simultaneously in all countries. durable condition we, the representatives of Socialons and minorities of these, we Germans, French, ans, Poles, Letts, Rumanians, Swedes, Norwegians, iss, we do not stand on the ground of national the exploiting class, but on the ground of the lidarity of the proletariat and the class struggle, ether in order to knit up the broken threads of elations, and to call the working class to selfnd to the struggle for peace. is the struggle for liberty, for fraternity and for s time to take up this battle for peace, and for a nnexations or war indemnities. Such a peace is a condition of the condemnation of all violence ts and liberties of the peoples. Neither the posnations nor of separate sections of nations must lead to forcible incorporation. No annexation, masked, and no forcible economic union secured plation of political rights must be made. The ermination of peoples must be the indestructible e creation of national relations. Since the outbreak of the war you have devoted our courage, your endurance to the service of The time has now come to stand forth for your own cause, for the sacred purpose of Socialism, for the liberation of oppressed peoples, for all subject classes, and for the irreconcilable, proletarian class struggle. It is the task and the duty of the Socialists of the warring countries to take up the full burden of this struggle. It is the task and the duty of the Socialists of all neutral countries to support with all their strength their brothers in this struggle against bloody barbarism. Never in the history of the world was there a more imperative, a higher or more sublime task than this, whose fulfillment must be our common work. No sacrifice is too great, no load too heavy to bear in order to attain the goal of peace among the nations. Workingmen and working women! Mothers and fathers! Widows and orphans! Wounded and cripples! All who have suffered from war or through war, we call to you over the fron tiers, over the smoking slaughter fields, over devastated cities and villages: Proletarians of all nations, unite! In the name of the International Socialist Conference. Signed: For the German delegation, G. Ledebour, A. Hoffman. For the Italian, G. F. Modigliani, C. Lazzari. For the Russian, N. Lenin, Paul Axelrod, M. Babroff. For the Inter-Balkan Socialist Federation: Roumania, C. Racowski; Bulgaria, W. Kolarow. For the Swedes and Norwegians, Z. Hoglund, Ture Nerma For the Dutch, H. Roland Holst. For the Swiss, Robert Grimm, Charles Naine. The Independent Labor Party of England has declared it in sympathy with the conference and has elected delegates, but the British Government refused to issue passports, and, theref their names cannot be officially signed. NOTE Angelica Balabanov. Secretary of the Zimmerwald Conferen writes in the Communist International for October 1919, “The fundamen basis of the Zimmerwald movement was a deep conviction that only a mi revolutionary action of the working-class can put an end to the war” The First Zimmerwald Conference was held on the 5th-8th of September 1915; the Second at Kienthal, Switzerland on the 14th-30th of April, IMA and the Third Zimmerwald Conference was held at Stockholm, September 8th, 1917. The key-note of the Third manifesto was in its advocacy of the "simo't ous international general strike." NOTE ON CHAPTER XVII 3m in Mexico, Central and South America t been any very strong development of Bolshevism ica. In the Chamber of Deputies in Montevideo the Government was asked by Socialist members › Soviet government of Russia and they protested ice interference with recent meetings which had or of the Russian Bolsheviki. The Socialist Conideo, on September 22, voted by an overwhelming the Third International. portant center of Bolshevism in Central America temala. Here it is reported that the Red League at importance and that its influence radiates from he whole of Central America. One of the importLa Liga Roja - the Red League is to force nglish business men to abandon Central America.. e movement is General Alvarado, who formerly f Yucatan, and who is an ardent supporter of ported the Bolshevist movement in Yucatan. The in Guatemala started nearly two years ago with rpose of bringing about a union of the Central and two or three of the South Mexican states into This was done under the aegis of what was called The purpose was, of course, Soviet Communism. MEXICO have turned the spotlight on the spread of Bolradical labor movement in Mexico, especially government's favoring and abetting the numerlso on account of the results of the Communist Mexican Proletariat held in Mexico City Sepis Congress was decided upon in July at the on of the Confederacion Obrera Regional, held This organization corresponds to the AmeriLabor but is far more radical and with strong -ies. It decided to have the first great Labor and parade throughout Mexico on September |