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5, French imperialists have not allowed even their social- chauvinists to go and converse with the German social-chau- vinists - this means that the war is a predatory one also on the part of England and France, consequently, there is no salvation except through a break with all the govern- ments, with all the social-chauvinists, without any reser- vations" - instead of saying this, the Novaya Zhizn con- soles the workers with illusions: "In Stockholm - it says - preparations are being made to reach a Peace agreement and collectively to work out a gen- eral plan of struggle: refusal to vote for war credits, a break with "national unity", recall of Ministers from the Cabinets etc. "All it can do to substantiate this absolutely false phrase is to set up the word "struggle" in bold type. Fine proof, indeed! "After three years of war, they still feed the workers with the most empty promises: "Preparations are being made at Stockholm" to break with national unity... "...All this is one great deception. All this means con- soling and pacifying the workers in a reactionary way, im- buing them with confidence in the social-chauvinists. But the truth is that the Socialists who "fight for peace" not in words, not to deceive themselves, not to deceive the workers, have long since started such a struggle, without waiting for international conferences; they have started such a struggle by breaking up national unity in the very same way as was done by MacLean in England, by Karl Lieb- knecht in Germany, by the Bolsheviks in Russia.....We Bol- sheviks, on the other hand, in our propaganda against Stockholm, tell the masses the whole truth; we continue to expose the social-chauvinists and the policy of agreements with them; we lead the masses towards a complete rupture with them... "...We, on the other hand, taking into account all the vicissitudes and the details of politics, remain consist- ent internationalists, preaching the brotherly union of all the workers, a break with the social-chauvinists, and work for the proletarian revolution." - 8th September 1917. Collected Works, Vol. XXI, Book I, pp. 120-126.