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 heard-of conditions in which the capitalist terror has thrust the laboring population of Italy.

In Madrid, the military directory, endeavoring to destroy the class organizations of the proletariat, throw the active workers of the labor unions by the hundreds into prison (as was the case in Barcelona,) shooting in broad daylight the best fighters of the revolution, prohibits workers newspapers.

This system of terror, started in Italy and in Spain, is pursued methodically and openly and already assumes international proportions—with the direct aid of the notorious democratic governments or with their secret participation.

In Roumania, Poland, Finland, capitalism is avenging itself for its fear and trembling before the inevitable revolutionary mass uprisings, capitalism makes the workers pay with their blood; revolutionary workers are being thrown into prison, tortured, executed in Bulgaria, the bourgeois-fascist government of Zankov dispersed the central body of the labor unions, has suppressed all attempts at class organization and has deprived the working class of the possibility of struggle.

In all countries of the world revolutionary organizations are outlawed, and even the bourgeois legal norms are violated by capitalism which stops at nothing when it has to defend its interests.

In Germany, Fascism penetrates even into workers' organizations; the government protects and supports it, impeding the cause of proletarian self-defence; the recent shootings of workers in Halle once more manifests the purpose of the hard-pressed bourgeoisie absolutely to enslave the masses of the German people. The ministry of MacDonald in England extends it "labor" concern over the whole of the Empire, including India where machine-guns suppress the strikes and prisons are crowded with rebellious proletarians.

In Belgium, in Czecho-Slovakia, under the benevolent eye of the democrats in power, Fascist organizations are being formed, preparing for the day, when decisive class struggle will flare up.

In the whole world, the ruling class persecuted the defenders of the proletariat and metes out vengeance on them either by means of open terror or under the cloak of hypocritical democracy.

The representatives of the international proletariat know that the bourgeoisie is motivated in its policy of violence by the imperative necessity of class struggle, by the provision of near bankruptcy, and also by the desire to retain at all costs its positions in the face of economic world revolution which cannot be stayed. They knew that only by class action, strictly organized and stopping at nothing, the international proletariat will be able to overcome the white terror and, changing from the heroic defensive to systematic offensive, to overthrow the bourgeois-capitalist exploitation and achieve the establishment of the proletarian rule.

The white terror finds for itself faithful allies in the social-traitors and anarcho-reformists of all countries. The III Congress of the Red International of Labor Unions calls upon all laborers, of whatever trade or conviction, to begin the concentration of all forces immediately and to prepare for a united advance under the red banner of the Red International of Labor Unions.

Long live the International Proletariat!

Long live the World Revolution!