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 the participation of the Communists in the Labour Party!" Serati is not such an ignorant child that he does not really understand, that there is just a little difference between these two cases. He attempted with premeditation intentionally to mislead the Italian proletarians. I believe our English comrades will admit to-day, that not they, but rather the Second Congress was right in this matter, when it declared: "Not out of the Labour Party, but into it, in order to fight for Communism from within, and to brand the treacherous leaders from within." (Applause.)

As regards Parliamentarism we have as yet no big success to record for the current year. This must be admitted. After all the splits it has been revealed that the parliamentary factions comprise the most hesitating, the most moderate and the most inferior elements. This has been the case in France, as in Italy, Germany, and Switzerland. In fact, wherever we had any splits this year.

One other point. If you ask me, which of the 21 conditions have been most imperfectly fulfilled during. this year, I must answer: the one which demands complete subordination of the parliamentary factions to the Party and the carrying on of real revolutionary parliamentarism. But, comrades, I believe that although we have as yet achieved very little in this respect, it is nevertheless, clear that in this question also the majority of the Second Congress was right. In several countries we may already record our initial successes, and we will urge the Third Congress to do everything necessary to have our Party advance forward in this respect.

Now, comrades, what was the mandate, what was the watchword given to the Executive by the Second Congress? The watchword was, as regards England, America, and other countries where Communism is a feeble movement as yet, but where there is a numerous working class and a great Labour movement, to urge our comrades there into close contact