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 the great instrument of peace, precisely because it is the great instrument of revolution.

The ten years that have passed since the outbreak of the war have not passed in vain: the world labor movement has lived through a grave crisis; hundreds and millions of workers have turned away from social patriotism in disgust and rallied to the communist banners. The Communist International has grown and developed into a world wide organization, and the Red International of Labor Unions has penetrated every country. There is not a country, there is not a corner of the globe where these two world organizations are not backed by numerous militant fighters. The army of the revolution unceasingly grows, and the increasing persecutions of the Comintern and the R. I. L. U. by the bourgeoisie and the reformists. It is necessary to cut out reformism from amongst labor, in order to take up the offensive and storm the capitalist stronghold. We are confronted with a gigantic task.

The Third Congress of the R. I. L. U. sends this fiery appeal to the workers of all countries to oppose the bourgeoisie and reformist celebration of their war for freedom by a demonstration of anger and hatred for the exploiters and their agents during the week of protest against war, July 27–August 4th, 1924, to remind the ruling classes that the time has passed when millions of workers could be forced with impunity to take part in the world slaughter. During this anti-war week, in every city and village, in every factory and workshop, on the streets of all the cities, in every place where the proletarian hearts beat, where there are oppressed and exploited, the militant cry will be heard:

DOWN WITH IMPERIALIST WARS!

DOWN WITH THE AGENTS OF MILITARISM—THE SOCIAL-DEMOCRATS!

OUT WITH THE TRAITORS FROM THE WORKERS' ORGANIZATIONS!

WELCOME TO THE HOLY WAR OF THE OPPRESSED AGAINST THE OPPRESSORS!

LONG LIVE THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION.

N starting its work, the III Congress of the Red International of Labor Unions brands with scorn before the laborers of the entire world the policy of violence of the international bourgeoisie which has united under the banner of Fascism and under the banner of "democracy."

In Italy, in Spain, attacks upon the revolutionary workers are systematically organized by the governments of Mussolini and Rivera.

After a series of outrages in the course of which thousands of revvolutionists fell victims of the struggle, workers' institutions were closed, labor bourses were set on fire, thousands of prisoners fell subjected by capitalist hangmen to terrible tortures, the murder of the Italian Socialist Deputy Matteotti, concluding a long list of murderous deeds revealed with a sudden vividness before the whole world the un-