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 the strengthening of the shaken class rule of the capitalist class.

5. In order to maintain their rule, the leaders of the Amsterdam International do not hesitate to expel, not only individual or isolated groups, but whole organisations. Besides, the Amsterdam leaders have firmly resolved, as far as they are concerned, never to remain in a minority, and in case of impending danger from the revolutionary elements, the adherents of the Comintern and Profintern—to rather split the organisations than allow the control of the machinery and material resources to pass from their hands. That is the way the leaders of the French Confederation of Labour have acted; the same policy is being followed by the reformists in Czecho-Slovakia, and in their footsteps are following the leaders of the All-German Federation of Labour Unions. The interests of the capitalist class requires the splitting of the labour union movement.

6. Simultaneously with the attack of the Amsterdam leaders against the revolutionary workers of their respective countries, the same attack was taking place on the international field. The international organisations of workers of various industries adhering to the Amsterdam International, were systematically expelling and rejecting revolutionary unions of their respective industries. Thus the Russian and other revolutionary unions, merely because they belonged to the Red International of Labour Unions, were rejected by the International Congresses of Miners, Textile Workers, Public Employees, Leather Workers, Woodworkers, Builders, and Workers of Communication Lines.

7. This campaign of the Amsterdam leaders against the revolutionary unions is the reflex of the campaign of international capital against the working class, and it has the same purpose, i.e., to establish stable capitalistic relations upon the bodies of the toiling masses. Reformism, scenting its downfall, aims by means of splits and expulsions of the most militant elements, to as much as possible weaken the working class in order to thus render it incapable of taking into its hands the public powers and the means of production and exchange.

'''III. The Anarchists and the Communists.'''

8. Together with the offensive of the Amsterdam leaders against the Communist labour union movement, there was also taking place an "offensive" of the Anarchists against the Comintern, against the Communist Parties, and the Communist nuclei in the labour unions, Several Anarcho-Syndicalist organisations have come out openly as determined enemies of the Communist International and of the Russian Revolution, despite the fact that in 1920 these organisations had solemnly joined the Comintern, and declared their devotion to the Russian proletariat and to the October Revolution. Such attacks came from the Italian Syndicalist Union, from the German Localists, the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalists, and