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Special attention should be given to the establishment of direct connections between the workers of bordering regions of various States. In counteraction to the capitalist savage attacks in the bordering regions, joint committees of the workers of the bordering regions should be formed. These committees of action should be guided by the I. P. C's and should maintain intimate connections with all the unions of the particular regions and countries. Trade unionists should be moved from the bordering region of one country to that of the neighboring country, in order to strengthen the personal connections between the adjacent revolutionary organizations.

To further the interests of the proletarian revolution and the growth of the power of the labor organizations, the connections between the workers of the Metropolis and of the colonies should be strengthened. The capitalists should be deprived of all possibility of using the masses of colonial slaves for the suppression of the revolutionary activities of the workers of the Metropolis. This can be achieved primarily by the workers of the European countries steadily supporting the emancipation movement of the colonial proletariat.

The revolutionary unions of the European and colonial countries are charged with the duty of maintaining regular correspondence with each other, exchanging delegates, and taking other steps to facilitate co-operation.

All the energy of the revolutionary unions should be directed not only at the protection of the interests of the working class against advancing capital and against the demoralizing influence of reformism, but also at the preparation of the working masses for the decisive battles against the class of capitalists and their bourgeois government.

If at present the capitalists convert practically every strike into a civil war, and the initiative of attack is now entirely in the hands of the armed bourgeoisie, it is time for the working masses to arm themselves and check the offensive of the brazen executioners of the working class.

The Third Congress of the R. I. L. U. calls upon all the workers and all the revolutionary unions to be ready to win with arms in their hands the fight for a beter future.

ASCISM is a manifestation of the post-war period and must not be confused with the traditional forms of bourgeois reaction, Fascism may be considered as the armed organization of the bourgeoisie endeavoring to find support for themselves by the mobilization of the middle classes of the population in an epoch when civil war becomes necessary.

Fascism and democracy are two forms of the bourgeois dictatorship, the overthrow of which is possible only as the result of the general revolutionary action of the working class, directed to the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat.