Communism -- Soviet Union; Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940; Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Personal narratives, American
(4) To call a non-partisan Conference of the workers, Red Army
soldiers and sailors of Petrograd, Kronstadt, and of Petrograd
Province, no later than March 10, 1921;
(5) To liberate all political prisoners of Socialist parties, as
well as all workers, peasants, soldiers, and sailors imprisoned in
connection with the labour and peasant movements;
(6) To elect a Commission to review the cases of those held in
prisons and concentration camps;
(7) To abolish all _politotdeli_[A] because no party should be
given special privileges in the propagation of its ideas or receive
the financial support of the Government for such purposes. Instead
there should be established educational and cultural commissions,
locally elected and financed by the Government.
(8) To abolish immediately all _zagryaditelniye otryadi_[B];
(9) To equalize the rations of all who work, with the exception of
those employed in trades detrimental to health;
(10) To abolish the Communist fighting detachments in all branches
of the Army, as well as the Communist guards kept on duty in mills
and factories. Should such guards or military detachments be found
necessary, they are to be appointed in the Army from the ranks, and
in the factories according to the judgment of the workers;
(11) To give the peasants full freedom of action in regard to their
land, and also the right to keep cattle, on condition that the
peasants manage with their own means; that is, without employing
hired labour;
(12) To request all branches of the Army, as well as our comrades
the military _kursanti_, to concur in our resolutions;
(13) To demand that the press give the fullest publicity to our
resolutions;
(14) To appoint a Travelling Commission of Control;
(15) To permit free _kustarnoye_[C] production by one’s own
efforts.
On March 4th the Petrograd Soviet was to meet and it was generally felt
that the fate of Kronstadt would be decided then. Trotsky was to address
the gathering, and as I had not yet had an opportunity to hear him in
Russia, I was anxious to attend. My attitude in the matter of Kronstadt
was still undecided. I could not believe that the Bolsheviki would
deliberately fabricate the story about General Kozlovsky as the leader
of the sailors. The Soviet meeting, I expected, would clarify the
matter.
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