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 solidarity, to strengthen the unity between the various sections of labor within and beyond the boundaries of the state, and to keep in mind the every-day struggle, that the international revolution requires the greatest exertion of all the forces, energy and initiative, the greatest unity and solidarity in leadership. This will be possible only if the Comintern and the Red International of Labor Unions continue increasingly to co-operate, if the revolutionary unions and the Communist Parties establish even closer connections, and a relentless war is waged both against the bourgeoisie and the corrupting influence of anarcho-reformism upon the labor movement.

E-AFFIRMING its decisions on the necessity to struggle for the re-estabilshment of a united workers' front in the interests of the development of the class struggle on an international scale and of a successful repulsion of the attack of capital, the Third Congress of the R. I. L. U. deems it its duty once more to state its firm decision to conduct its work in this direction.

2. Never for a moment stopping its determined fight against all manifestations of reformism within the international labor movement, mercilessly revealing all its treacherous substance, untiringly explaining this to all workers who do not understand yet the role of reformism as a brake to the struggle of the proletariat for emancipation, the Third Congress, in the interests of the concentration of the proletarian forces and in the interests of a united leadership in the struggle of the workers against the economic offensive of capital and fascist reaction, considers it the most pressing task of its activity to develop a widespread campaign among the working masses in favor of the unity of the international labor union movement.

3. This unity campaign, chiefly and first of all developed below among the broad masses, must put before them in all its proportions and with perfect clearness the question of creating one International of Labor Unions.

4. One of the further steps in this direction, following the corresponding preparation of the masses, could be the convocation of a General International Congress of Labor Unions to represent the organizations that belong to both Internationals (Moscow and Amsterdam) on the basis of proportional representation for the purpose of working out a common constitution and for the creation of the executive organs of the new United International. The Congress thinks, that only in this way can the simultaneous and complete amalgamation of the dual organizations be accomplished.

5. In fulfillment of the above the Congress considers it useful to get through its representatives, in touch with the Amsterdam International and with those British trade unions affiliated to Amsterdam which stand for a United International.

6. However, putting the interests of the international labor movement and the realization of its unity above the questions of a formal character, the Congress thinks that individual labor unions affiliated to