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1. The tenth anniversary of the world war.

2. Against the white terror.

3. Against the persecution of the revolutionary proletariat in Esthonia, Latvia, Finland, and Poland.

4. Against the murder of violence upon the revolutionary workers in Jugo-Slavia.

5. Against the white terror in Bulgaria.

6. Against the persecution of workers in Turkey.

7. Against the persecution of Egyptian workers.

8. Against the terror in China.

AVING heard the report of the Executive Bureau, the Third Congress of the R. I. L. U. states that the E. B. acted in the spirit of the decisions adopted by the previous congresses, and fully approves of its activity, and of all its work in directing the world revolutionary labor movement.

The congress considers it necessary that the organs of the R. I. L. U. should enforce more strictly the decisions of the international congresses. The congress considers it necessary that the coming E. B. should continue an energetic struggle against reformism and anarcho-syndicalism which demoralize and disintegrate the labor movement, for the purpose of further winning and organizing the masses, for the overthrow of capitalism and the establishing of the proletarian dictatorship.

HE world economic crisis, which started in the middle of 1920, facilitating the offensive action of the employers against the workers, is still in progress, though its forms have changed. The causes of the crisis are the world economic ruin, resulting from the war and the disorganization of the world economy by the reparations policy of the Entente. These basic causes continue to act with all their force, and temporary favorable conditions in any country or industry, temporary stabilization of currency in the defeated and war ruined countries do not therefore, remove from capitalist society the unremovable contradiction between the obsolete capitalist relations on the one hand, and the necessity of collective socialist production for the salvation of humanity on the other. Disintegration of capitalism, particularly of European capitalism, continues; but it should not be taken in a primitive mechanical sense, as it is a long process which has its ebbs and flows and is even sometimes accompanied by a revival of industrial and financial activities, capable of RETARDING the process of disintegration, though powerless to stop it. In this respect the analysis of the