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 and reduces it to the role of servant of capital and of the counter-revolutionary interests of the bourgeois state.

In 1920, the revolutionary movement of the proletariat put on the order of the day the task of internationally uniting the activities of the sport and gymnastics organizations for the purpose of giving the labor sport movement a revolutionary class character.

The Red Sport International, formed in 1921, at the International Conference of Labor Sport and Gymnastic Organizations, recognized as its task the revolutionary education of the labor sporting masses, their emancipation from the ideological and organizational dependence upon the bourgeoisie, the drawing in of the workers into sport organizations and the enlistment of these organizations in the proletarian revolutionary struggle.

The three years of work of the Red Sport International promoted the revolutionary consciousness and activity of the labor sporting masses. The sport international has created among the workers' sport and gymnastic organizations revolutionary factions to combat the bourgeois ideology and the reformist muddle. These factions became fundamental nuclei of the Red Sport International and prepared the ground for the broadest sport activity of the labor unions.

The Third Congress of the R. I. L. U. recognizing the great importance of the proletarian sport as a mighty revolutionary instrument in the hands of the labor unions for educating, consolidating and disciplining the masses, considers it necessary to draw the special attention of the labor unions to the question of sport.

The labor sport and gymnastic movement at the present time places before the labor unions the following tasks:

1. To discuss in the entire labor press the questions of the sport movement of the bourgeois, reformist and revolutionary movements and to establish a correct line and program of work.

2. By an energetic systematic agitation and propaganda, to make it clear to the sporting labor mass: