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 given up, and the rights of the trade unions are curtailed.

Reaction is growing in the political field. In Italy the power of Government 1s seized by the criminal element, the robber bands of Fascisti, these last reserves of the capitalist class in the struggle for its existence. In Germany the monarchist forces are being organised and prepared for attack. In England even the Government of Lloyd George was found to be too Liberal and was replaced by Conservatives. The contradictions of classes are becoming more acute, and everything points to the fact that Europe is getting into a tangle leading to the most desperate mortal battle between the proletariat and the capitalist regime.

But the darker the night 1s becoming in Europe, all the brighter are shining in the Soviet North, the stars of your and our proletarian dictatorship. The more unbearable the condition is becoming of the workers in other countries under the heel of capital growing more and more insolent, with all the more hope the working class of the entire world is looking in the direction of that part of the globe where now already for five years exists the unchangeable Government of work-calloused hands. Comrades! you in your hard struggle need our help and support, but maybe in even still greater degree will we need the help of the first World Proletarian Government at the decisive moment in our struggle against capital. Do all, therefore, to preserve our common conquest—your and our proletarian front, and our common victory will spread over the entire world!

Long live the great November Revolution and its heroes!

Long live the Russian working class!

Long live the Proletarian Petrograd, the birthplace a Soviet Government!

Death to World Capitalism and its main support—the treacherous Social Democrats and Reformists!

Long live the World Proletarian Revolution!

Long live the World Socialist Federative Soviet Republic!