trength
and the external power of the Russian Workers' and Peasants'
Republic is growing daily into a power that will successfully
withstand the onslaughts of capitalism. The possibilities of
subduing the Russian revolution by force from without decrease
constantly as the governments of the different countries are ever
more forcibly threatened by the fermentation among their own
peoples which they must combat.

"At present the second, the Socialist revolution, has come upon the
scene in Germany, which, driven to the edge of starvation, bleeding
and drained to the marrow by Kaiserism and militarism, is now being
held in the grip of Entente capitalism. There at this moment the
courageous and steadfast Socialists stand under the flag of
Spartacus, first on the barricades under the sign of the general
strike and street battles....

"The German Socialists of the Right have soiled the name of
Socialism by being inimical to the Russian revolution; by failing
to communicate with the radical English elements in the English
strike movements, which are also spontaneous expressions of
proletarian unrest; by acting as the lackeys of Kaiserism and
capitalism in opposing the November revolution to the last hour
before its outbreak; and, finally, by their unspeakable mass
murders of starving, demonstrating and striking proletarians.

"In this struggle between the revolution and the social-patriotic
bourgeois reaction which now enters into a decisive phase, two of
the noblest pioneers of the international, Dr. Karl Liebknecht and
Rosa Luxemburg, were murdered by the hate-filled bourgeois mob and
the degenerate Scheidemann-Noske henchmen. Another victim of the
treacherous reaction was Kurt Eisner, Socialist premier of Bavaria.
One need but be an honest, fearless Socialist to be in danger of
one's life under the hypocritical, false, brutal and murderous
regime of Ebert-Scheidemann-Noske. This regime revives the worst
methods of Kaiserism and holds its protecting hand over the
bourgeois and capitalists of Germany. But this blood and the blood
of our martyrs will only urge the masses to continuous
unconquerable struggle, till the criminal Ebert-Scheidemann-Noske
reaction, together with the criminals and conspirators of the old
empire, yield to the power of