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The bloc arranged between the International Co-operative Alliance and the Amsterdam Federation of Trade Unions in December, 1922, in the Hague to be widened by the inclusion of the R. I. L. U. The revolutionary masses in the co-operative and labor unions must see to it that in place of a reformist pact of leaders, there should be set up ONE COMMON INTERNATIONAL FIGHTING FRONT OF THE CLASS CONSCIOUS CO-OPERATORS AND TRADE UNIONISTS.

HE international revolutionary labor press must pursue chiefly the aims of the best, most popular and simplest description and the widest publication of the principles of the revolutionary tactics of the R. I. L. U., of the decisions of its congresses, explaining all the resolutions adopted by the congress, etc,, and must also show the treacherous role of the leaders of the Amsterdam International, particularly on the question of the split of the international labor movement.

2. The revolutionary labor press should devote much attention to the labor situation in every country and to the labor struggle, describing it from the point of view of revolutionary principles and tactics.

3. The revolutionary labor press should conduct persistent propaganda against all social patriotism and political neutrality in the international labor movement; special attention should be given particularly to social legislation, the activity of the International Bureau of the League of Nations and to its connections with the Amsterdam International of Trade Unions. It is also necessary to give more attention to the workers' co-operative movement.

4. In view of the extreme importance of drawing the toiling farmers to the side of the proletarian revolution, a wide agitation campaign should be embarked upon, giving special publicity to the International Farmers' Council.

5. The revolutionary labor press should not only criticize reformism, but should also give a theoretical analysis of all the new problems arising in the international labor movement. Special attention should be given to the working out of a theoretical basis for the shop committees, the strike strategy, the relations between the Communist party and the unions, the national and racial inter-relations, the colonial policy, the relations with the farmers, the work among the women and youth, the concentration of capital and the concentration of the labor movements, etc.

6. A special place in this theoretical analysis should be given to the propaganda of the ideas of Leninism in the labor movement.

7. The revolutionary labor press must be handled so as to be comprehensible and near to the masses, and that it might quickly respond to all the questions of interest to the workers. For this purpose every effort should be made to organize, wherever possible, a chain of workers' correspondents.

On the basis of the above, the Third Congress of the R. I. L. U. proposes the following concrete plan of running the revolutionary labor press: