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 landowners (the middle and poor farmers). To strengthen the connections with this section, to create forms of cooperation with it, to support struggle for land, to break the influence of the bourgeoisie, of the bourgeois intelligentzia, of the big landowners and of the rich exploiting farmers over it, is one of the most important tasks of the world labor movement.

The Third Congress of the R. I. L. U. greets the formation of the International Farmers' Council which aims at the unification on an national scale of the toiling section of the farmers for the struggle against the landowners and capitalists.

The Third Congress of the R. I. L. U. is confident that the Red Farmers' International, the Comintern and the R. I. L. U. will form a militant union in the interests of the victory of the social revolution.

This determines the attitude of the red unions towards the farmers' organizations: to aid their coming into existence on the platform of the International Farmers' Council; to give support through the land and forest workers organized in their own unions to the revolutionary exploited wing of the working farmers' organization with a view to driving out of those organizations the exploiting and intellectual elements; and to help by all means the individual working farmers' organizations to affiliate to the International Farmers’ Council (the Red Farmers' International).

Simultaneously the red unions must give the greatest support to the struggle of the toiling farmers against the landowners, the exploiting rich farmers, the bureaucracy and the officialdom, which struggle has hitherto in the most cases taken spontaneous form (the agrarian movement), and thus to demonstrate the possibility and necessity of a militant union of both camps in the struggle against the capitalists and the landowners.

Only in such case will it be possible to get this section of the farmers to join in the struggle against capitalism, to draw it into the fight against the capitalist system of production, and not only to secure its support for the strike struggle of the farm laborers, but to have in the person of the toiling farmers at the decisive moments of the revolutionary struggle of labor as a whole, if not an active ally, at least an element that is not hostile.

In following this course, the red unions will not only make the rear of the labor movement secure in the struggle against capitalism, but by drawing the farmers into its organization, into joint committees of action against Fascism, reaction and war menace, they will defeat capital with the aid of the toiling farmers.

The Third Congress of the R. I. L. U., re-affirming the decisions adopted at its previous congress on the enormous importance of the utmost strengthening of the work among the farm laborers, believe that it is the direct task of all the red unions at present:

a. To help the many millions of land and forest workers employed in large estates by rich landowners, in villages by well-to-do peasants, at plantations and in forests, to realize their class position.

b. To render organizational and material assistance to this most exploited atti downtrodden section of the proletariat, so as to break it away from the influence of petty bourgeois illusions, of reformism and national Fascism, overcome its disunity and create a powerful class organization of land and forest workers.

This task of the class education and organization of the agricul-