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 workers into the fight, has not yet penetrated the revolutionary workers. Revolutionary energy is frequently wasted in isolated efforts. The revolutionary worker has not yet come to the realization of the necessity of creating and developing a strike strategy and tactic which would utilize the experience of the world labor movement. However, now this question has been raised. The working class pays dearly for its insufficiently organized, scattered craft sections which are not yet reinforced by a unity of will The R. I. L. U. followers must pay particular attention to the methods of the strike struggle. They should remember that an army marching to the battle without a plan, without centralized leadership, without the direction of its various sections by a single will, is doomed to defeat.

The difficulty of the situation consists in the fact that in many countries the R. I. L. U. adherents belong to the reformist unions. Since the leading circle of the reformist union is assuming a more and more strike-breaking character, the minority finds itself confronted with the complicated question of the creation of a militant leadership of the mass movement, It is necessary to train and educate our leaders, else the political sympathies of the masses will not be transformed into political action.

We can direct the struggle of the working masses successfully only if we know the structure and power of our enemies. A thorough study of the employers' organizations and of their subsidiary bodies, of the connections between these organizations and the press, of the methods of bribery and corruption of the labor leaders and the penetration of their agents into the labor organizations, are preliminary conditions for any successful struggle against the employing class. All the organizations affiliated to the R. I. L. U. must follow the example of the employers in establishing economic reconnaissance work. Without an attentive collection and study of all the materials pertaining to the employers' organizations and to the state machinery which serves them, it is impossible to seriously conduct the class battle.

An equal distribution of the forces throughout the various industries will not produce the best results. The attention of the R. I. L. U. adherents should be focussed upon the organization of the workers of those industries which play a decisive role in the struggle of labor against capitalism (transport, mining, metal, chemical, electrical industries, gas works, telegraph, radio, etc.).§ WITHOUT THE CONQUEST OF THESE KEY INDUSTRIES THE LABOR STRUGGLE IS DOOMED TO FAILURE. Concentration of efforts along this line is dictated by the elementary consideration of the most effective application of revolutionary energies designed to strike at the most vulnerable and the most important points of the capitalist system.

The struggle of the various sections of labor depends now not only upon the general situation in each particular country, but more frequently upon the international situation as a whole; it therefore, cannot