ning the inspection
of working conditions, the highest department of national economy,
which is the first step in achieving the ownership by the Soviets
of the factories, mines, railroads, and means of production and
transportation.

3. To confirm the decree of the Soviets transferring all banks to
the ownership of the Soviet Republic, as one of the steps in the
freeing of the toiling masses from the yoke of capitalism.

4. To enforce general compulsory labor, in order to destroy the
class of parasites, and to reorganize the economic life. In order
to make the power of the toiling masses secure and to prevent the
restoration of the rule of the exploiters, the toiling masses will
be armed and a Red Guard composed of workers and peasants formed,
and the exploiting classes shall be disarmed.

III

1. Declaring its firm determination to make society free from the
chaos of capitalism and imperialism, which has drenched the
country in blood in this most criminal war of all wars, the
Constituent Assembly accepts completely the policy of the Soviets,
whose duty it is to publish all secret treaties, to organize the
most extensive fraternization between the workers and peasants of
warring armies, and by revolutionary methods to bring about a
democratic peace among the belligerent nations without annexations
and indemnities, on the basis of the free self-determination of
nations--at any price.

2. For this purpose the Constituent Assembly declares its complete
separation from the brutal policy of the bourgeoisie, which
furthers the well-being of the exploiters in a few selected
nations by enslaving hundreds of millions of the toiling peoples
of the colonies and the small nations generally.

The Constituent Assembly accepts the policy of the Council of
People's Commissars in giving complete independence to Finland, in
beginning the withdrawal of troops from Persia, and in declaring
for Armenia the right of self-determination.

A blow at international financial capital is the Soviet decree
which annuls foreign loans made by the governments of the Czar,
the landowners and the bourgeoisie. The Soviet government is to
continue firmly on this road until the final victory from the yoke
of capitalism is won through international workers' revolt.

As the Constituent Assembly w