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3. t- nd S- and Soviet power and the dictatorship of the proletariat established". - 21st January 1919. 'Letter to the Workers of Europe and America', Collected Works, Vol. 29, pp. 430-1. ** Notes. m a. Scheidemann - leader of the extreme chauvinist wing of a- the German Social-Democratic Party; vice-president of the Reichstag, the German parliament. Head of the bourgeois government after the German revolution of November 1918 which he, in conjunction with the German militarists, supp- ressed, shooting down thousands of workers. S b. Eugene Victor Debs - (1855-1926) founder of the Social- ist Party of America in 1897 and its Presidential candidate 5 times, the last time in 1920 as Convict 9653 in Atlanta 's jail. Also founded the American Railway Union in 1893 and jailed for 6 months in 1895 for union activity. Opposed the 9 war as a "proletarian revolutionist" from the start and, after the U.S.A.'s entry into the war in 1917, was arrested under the new 'Espionage' Law for anti-war speeches. In ; September 1918 he made a magnificent speech from the dock saying "I am not on trial here.....American institutions are ee on trial before a Court of American citizens". Started his ten year sentence aged 64 and suffering from heart disease S in April 1919. MacLean was among those who campaigned for le the release of Debs and other political prisoners. Debs was - released in December 1921. c. Constantino Lazzari - veteran revolutionary leader of Workers' Party of Italy which became Socialist Party of It- aly in 1893. Lazzari, a self-educated printer, was appoint- ed secretary of the Party directorate in 1914 and in August 1917 circulated all the socialist mayors in Italy with a es proposal to resign en masse in protest against the war for which he was arrested. e d. Serrati - leader of the left wing of the Italian Social- ist Party; editor of 'Avanti'; delegate at the Zimmerwald ed, Conference; joined the Communist International. After the 3rd Congress of the Comintern he refused to carry out, at the Congress of the Socialist Party, the demands of the Com- intern Executive to break off all relations with the opport- unists and was expelled from the Party. A split occurred in