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 mon strategic system up to now. T have been asked by various comrades: "What is International strategy? Is it to wage obstruction in parliament, to hold International demonstrations, to declare a strike on any particular day?" Yes, comrades, that too, even though we have not done so as yet. We have not organised a single International demonstration. We must recognise these weaknesses and confess them frankly. We must begin to organise in that way during the coming year. We must hold International demonstrations, and act in International accord in Parliament. That will include even France. We must begin with these small matters. We must make a breach in one country in order to widen the breach in another country. We have not done that as yet, We were too weak. Our legs were still too feeble. It is our duty to do better in the future.

A few words more concerning centralism, It has been alleged that we were exercising terrible pressure, and centralism. On the contrary, our organisation has been much too loose. Of course we understand very well that many great problems are of such a nature that each party must settle them by itself within the sphere of national conditions. We demanded naively the international settlement of problems which could only be solved nationally. There are, however, problems which allow of the drawing up of international demands. We must make our organisation much more centralised; we must make the ties which bind us more numerous and better than they have been up till now. Much nonsense has been written about the dictates of Moscow. In reality the only reproach one can make against us is that our organisation was not sufficiently binding, not sufficiently centralistic. (Calls: "Quite right.") The bourgeoisie is organised much better than we are. We must at least limp along: we must grasp the fact that it is our duty to build up a United International Party.