League of Struggle for the

St. Petersburg League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class was a Marxist group in St. Petersburg, Russia. It was founded by Lenin, Julius Martov, Gleb Krzhizhanovsky, Alexander Malchenko, P. Zaporozhets, A. Vaneye, V. Starkov and others in the autumn of 1895.[1] It united 20 Marxist study circles in St. Petersburg[2] Lenin dominated the league through the 'central group'. [3]Its main activity was agitation amongst the workers of St Petersburg and the distribution of socialist leaflets to the factories there.[4]
In December 1895, six League members were arrested, Lenin among them. While in prison, Lenin continued to guide the work of the League. In 1896 several more, including Martov, were arrested. Those members of the group still at large however scored a great success organising a strike of the textile workers in St Petersburg in May 1896. This industrial action lasted three weeks and spread to twenty other factories in

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