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 all the workers of the world to support the demands of the young workers in the struggle against the capitalist offensive, against bourgeois militarism and reaction.

The Communist International welcomes and fully supports the fight that is waged by the Y-C.I. for the vital demands of the young workers, and for the united front between the young and the adult workers. The capitalist attacks which threaten to inflict the deepest misery on the young workers, and to make them the helpless victims of militarism and reaction, should meet with the iron resistance of the entire working class.

3. The Young Communist movement should receive the careful understanding and active support of the Communist Parties in carrying out the tasks incumbent upon them of educating and winning the masses.

By close co-operation between the Party and the Youth and by the constant attraction of the Young Communist organisations to the political activities of the Party, the political interest and the political forces of the young movement will be sustained. Only in this way will the Communist Parties carry out the decisions of the Communist International, and lay the foundation for a healthy Young Communist movement. The Communist Parties must give organisational aid to the Young Communist organisations. Young comrades should be appointed to take part in the Young Communist movement, and special propaganda should be organised for the young workers in places where party organisations exist. Since the principal task of the Young Communist organisations is to direct their activity to the masses of the young workers, the Communist Parties should render particular aid in forming and carrying on the organs of the Comintern (nuclei and factions) in the trade unions and in the factories. Mutual representation should be carried out in all the organs of the Party and the youth organisation (nuclei, local groups, district committees, central committees, congresses, factions, etc.).

The Young Communist organisations must establish their roots in the masses of the young workers by increasing their economic propaganda and by constant attention to the questions affecting the lives of the young workers, and by championing their everyday interests. The Communist Parties must therefore give the utmost support to the economic activity of the Young Communists in the nuclei and factions of the factories, schools and trade unions, and carry out the closest co-operation between the members of the Young Communist International and the Communist Parties in the trade Unions. The Communists in the trade unions should insist on equal rights for the young workers and apprentices, on making their membership contributions moderate, on having their interests properly represented in the trade union struggle, and on securing participation in signing wage agreements, etc. The Communist Parties should further promote