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 has sent our confederation the published expression of solidarity and sympathy, does not quite share our opinion in regard to the necessary demands of the proletarian movement. Some of its leaders are very far from our political ideals. If the present moment were appropriate for personal controversies we could reproach some of them for the solidarity, which, during the war they manifested towards those who, to-day, are in our country, and in all other countries, representatives of capitalist reaction.

"But we will not diminish the significance of this international demonstration which touches us deeply. Whatever name the persons standing at the head of the Amsterdam Secretariat may bear, it is without doubt that the many millions of the international proletariat, which is united under its banner, is bound up with the oppressed of the whole world by mutual interest; and we are also cemented with similar ties to it and to you. It is also without doubt that every sincere and hearty demonstration of international solidarity will accelerate the proletarian union of the workers of all countries."

Comrades, you know how all petty bourgeois, all revisionists, all centrists cry out about the money from Moscow, although everyone understands that it is quite natural, that the victorous working class of Russia should help the workers of other countries. But when the International of the Trade Unions of Amsterdam, which is connected with the League of Nations, and whose chairman is Mr. Thomas—sends you 50,000 lira, is it not shameful to accept the money and, moreover, write about it. Serati did not notice that he was soiling his fingers by doing this. The money that he took from these traitors was not like glowing coal to him. He writes about international solidarity. You see, the dead ride quickly. The man, who is dead for the Communist International, has come to that very point.

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