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326 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 327 press their opinion freely in speech and writing, for that power of capital which enabled it to degrade the press to an agency for disseminating the capitalistic ideologies and obscuring the self consciousness of the proletarians, the dependency of the press upon capital, has ceased. The right to publish literature of every kind belongs to the workers, and the Soviet Republic shall see to it that the ideas of Socialism shall be propagated freely throughout the country.
Sec. In the Soviet Republic freedom of assemblage of the workers shall be absolutely guaranteed. All proletarians shall have the right to meet freely or organize processions. With the overthrow of the rule of the bourgeoisie all obstacles to the free right of organ, ization of the workers are removed, and the Soviet Republic shall not only bestow upon the workers and peasants the fullest freedom of union and organization, but shall also, in order to secure the development and permanency of their freedom of organization, extend to them every material and moral support.
Sec. 10. The Soviet Republic shall do away with the cultural privilege of the bourgeoisie and extend to the workers the opportunity for the positive appropriation of culture. It shall guarantee to the working class and the peasants free instruction, offering a high degree of education, Şec. 11. The Soviet Republic shall preserve the true freedom of conscience of the workers by complete separation of church and state and of church and school. Everyone may exercise his own religion freely.
Sec. 12. The Soviet Republic proclaims the proposition of the unification of the proletarians of all lands and, therefore, grants to every foreign proletarian the same rights that are due to the protetarians of Hungary.
Sec. 13. In the Hungarian Soviet Republic every foreign revolu.
tionist shall possess the right of asylum.
Sec. 14. The Hungarian Soviet Republic recognizes no differences of race or nationality. It shall not permit any form of oppres sion of national minorities nor any abridgement of the use of their language. Everyone shall be permitted to use his mother tongue freely, and it shall be the duty of all officials to accept any document written in any language in use in Hungary, to hear everyone in his native tongue, and to deal with him in that tongue.
The Central Organization of the Soviet Government Sec. 15. In the Soviet Republic the supreme authority shall be vested in the National Congress of the Federated Soviets.
Sec. 16. The jurisdiction of the National Congress of Soviets shall extend over all state affairs of high importance, in particular (1) the establishment and amendment of the Constitution of the Hungarian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic. 2) the establishment and modification of the boundaries of the country. 3) the declaring of war and the negotiating of peace. 4) the closing of international agreements. 5) the raising of state loans. 6) the supreme direction of external and internal policies. 7) the division of the country into districts. 8) the definition of the jurisdiction of the local councils. 9) the general direction of the economic life of the country, in its entirety as well as in its separate branches. 10) the establishment and modification of the monetary system and the system of weights and measures. 11) the drawing up of the budget of the Soviet Republic. 12) the determination of the public burden. 13) the determination of the system of defense. 14) the regulation of the right of state citizenship. 15) state, civil, and criminal legislation. 16) the determination of the structure of the judicial system. 17) general or partial amnesty. 18) the supreme direction of cultural affairs.
All questions relating to the affairs over which the National Congess of Federated Soviets has established its authority shall be brought up in the National Congress of Soviets. During the time that the National Congress of Federated Soviets is not in session its jurisdiction shall be exercised by the Directing Federal Central Committee, The following, however, shall come unconditionally and solely under the jurisdiction of the National Congress of Federated Soviets: a) the establishment and amendment of the Constitution; b) the declaring of war and the negotiation of peace; c) the determination of the boundaries of the country.
Sec. 17. The National Congress of Soviets shall be convened by the Directing Federal Central Committee at least twice in each year, Sec. 18. The National Congress of Soviets must be convened by the Federal Central Committee upon demand of the Councils of districts and cities whose population totals at least one third of the population of the country.
Sec. 19. The Directing Federal Central Committee, which is to be elected by the National Congress of Federated Soviets, shall consist of not more than 150 members. All nationalities living in the country shall be represented in the Central Committee in proportion to their population, Sec. 20. The Directing Central Committee shall, during the time that the National Congress of the Councils is not in session, assume the conduct of state affairs; it shall. exercise supreme legislative and executive power. During the other time it shall always participate directly in the control of state affairs. From among its members shall be chosen, besides the People Deputies, all committees assigned to the People Commissariats and supplementing the work of the People Deputies.
Sec. 21. The Directing Central Committee directs the activities of the Workers. Soldiers and Peasants Councils as well as of all representative publications of the Councils. It shall care for the practical working out of the Soviet Constitution and carry out the decisions of the National Congress of Soviets.
Sec. 22. The Directing Central Committee shall report to the National Congress of Soviets concerning its operations. It shall keep the Congress informed of the general political and economic situation, as also concerning definite questions of greater importance.
Sec. 23. The Directing Central Committee shall be responsible for its actions to the National Congress of Soviets.
Sec. 24. The Directing Central Committee shall elect the Revolutionary Soviet Government and its President.
Sec. 25. The members of the Revolutionary Soviet Government are the People Deputies. The Revolutionary Soviet Government shall appoint the People Deputies to the heads of the various