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In bringing this to your knowledge, the Central Committee chosen
at the first elections invites you, Comrades, to place yourself
immediately in agreement with it.
Considering the Congress of October as incompetent, the Central
Committee chosen at the first elections has decided to begin a
preparatory work in view of the convocation of a new Congress of
the Soviets of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates.
In the near future, while the Commissaires of the People, in the
persons of Lenine and Trotzky, are going to fight against the
sovereign power of the Constituent Assembly, we shall have to
intervene with all our energy in the conflict artificially encited
by the adventurers, between that Assembly and the Soviets. _It
will be our task to aid the Soviets in taking consciousness of
their role, in defining their political lines, and in determining
their functions and those of the Constituante._
Comrades! The convocation of the Congress for the 8th of January
is dictated by the desire to provoke a conflict between the
Soviets and the Constituante, and thus botch this last. Anxious
for the fate of the country, the Executive Committee chosen at the
first elections decides to convoke at Petrograd for the 8th of
January an extraordinary assembly of _all the Soviets, all the
Committees of the Army and the Navy, all the fractions of the
Soviets and military committees, all the organizations that
cluster around the Soviets and the Committees that are standing
upon the ground of the defense of the Constituante.
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