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 At the Halle Congress Crispien "cleverly" described the German Communist Labour Party as the bastard child of the union between the German Spartacists and the Russian Communists. All the petty bourgeois elements present at the Halle Congress were highly tickled at this "apt" phrase. This, however, will in no way affect us Russian Communists. We shall earnestly and persistently strive to bring the better part of the workers who are members of the K.A.P.D. within the folds of the German Communist Party, which is now being organised and unified.

Members of the German Communist Labour Party were, owing to our efforts, invited to the forthcoming general congress. Even if some of the members do not attend that united congress, we shall none the less insistently and patiently continue to invite them to join our ranks; and we feel sure that in the end the majority of the workers, who are members of the K.A.P.D., will be in the ranks of the unified party.

Amidst the general condition of affairs, such as we have described above, the workers grow more revolutionary every day. The strong point of the German revolution consists in the fact that Germany, as is commonly known, is an industrial country; the urban population in Germany greatly exceeds the rural population. In Germany the bulk of the population lives in towns, where the workers can better organise themselves. In Berlin, Hambourg, Leipzig, and especially in the coal districts, the workers form a majority. They have sheer physical preponderances on their side, and everything depends on them. Under such circumstances the working class of Germany can hope to obtain the best from the future.

What is it then that the German working class lacks, seeing that it has a big majority in the towns in order to get the upper hand over a bourgeoisie that is absolutely ruined and is giving way before our very eyes?

We cannot say that the German workers lack organisation. They have organisation. The German trade unions are the biggest, numbering some ten millions of members. There is no German worker who is not a member of a trade union. What is lacking is a clear revolutionary standpoint on the part