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 details will be dealt with by special commissions, whose resolutions will later be put before the Congress.

With regard to what has happened in certain parties, the Fourth Congress reminds the National Sections that the Executive Committee of the Comintern is the court of appeal for the whole Communist movement during the time between world congresses, and that its decisions are binding upon all affiliated parties, It follows therefrom that any infringement of these resolutions on the ground of a later appeal to the next congress is an open breach of discipline. If the Comintern should allow such practice, all regular and unified activity of the Comintern will become impossible.

In answer to the doubts of the Communist Party of France as to the application of par. 9 of the statutes of the Comintern, the Fourth Congress answers that this par. 9 gives the Executive Committee of the Comintern the unquestionable right to expel from the Comintern, and therefore from the affiliated national section, any person or group which according to the view of the Executive Committee, are inimical to Communism.

The Executive Committee of the Comintern is forced to make use of par. 9 every time a national party does not show the necessary energy and consideration for the protection of the Party to expel non-Communist elements from its ranks.

The Fourth Congress of the Comintern re-affirms the 21 Conditions laid down by the Second Congress of the Comintern, and demands of the future Executive Committee that it enforces these most strictly. The Executive Committee of the Comintern must become more than ever an international organisation of the proletariat; it must ruthlessly combat all opportunism; it must become an organisation based on the principle of the strictest democratic centralism."

HE Fourth World Congress of the Communist International expresses its gratitude and admiration to the working population of Soviet Russia, not only because it conquered State power and established the dictatorship of the proletariat, but also because it has successfully defended the achievement of the revolution against all enemies from within and from without. It has thus made lasting achievements for the cause of the emancipation of the exploited and oppressed of all countries which will make its memory live for ever.

The Fourth World Congress affirms with great satisfaction that the first workers' State of the world, created by the