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 from the various Anarcho-Syndicalist groups in France, Holland, Sweden and America.

9. Under the slogan of independence of the labour union movement from Communist Parties, a number of Syndicalist organisations (National Labour Secretariat of Holland, Industrial Workers of the World, Italian Syndicalist Union, etc:), proceed to expel from their organisation the adherents of the Profintern in general, and the Communists in particular. Thus the slogan of independence of the labour union movement was transformed into an anti-Communist counter-revolutionary slogan, coinciding with the slogan of the Amsterdam leaders, who are conducting the same policy under the banner of independence, though everybody knows that they are dependent on the national and international capitalist class.

10. The campaign of the Anarchists against the Comintern, against the Profintern, and against the Russian Revolution, has caused disintegration and splits in their own ranks. The best elements of the workers have taken up the fight against this ideology. The camp of the Anarchists and the Anarcho-Syndicalists is broken up into several groups and currents engaged in a fierce struggle for and against the Profintern, for and against the dictatorship of the Proletariat, for and against the Russian Revolution.

'''IV. Neutrality and Independence.'''

11. The influence of the capitalist class upon the proletariat has found its expression in the theory of neutrality of the labour unions, which is made to mean that the labour unions must have purely trade aims of a narrow economic character without pursuing any general working-class aims. Neutrality was ever a purely bourgeois theory, against which revolutionary Marxism was conducting an uncompromising struggle. The labour unions, which have no general working-class aim, i.e., the aim of the overthrow of the capitalist social order, are, in spite of their proletarian make-up, the best bulwark of the bourgeois order and the bourgeois system.

12. In defence of the theory of neutrality, the argument was always made that the labour unions must deal exclusively with economic issues, and should under no circumstances mix in politics. The capitalist class was ever striving to separate politics from economics, realising quite well that in the measure as it will succeed in driving the working class into the stalls of craft unionism, no serious danger will threaten its rule.

13. The line separating economics from politics is drawn also by the Anarchist elements engaged in the labour union movement, which are striving to detach the labour union movement from its political tasks under the pretext that all politics are aimed against the workers. This basically purely bourgeois theory is presented under the flag of neutrality, whereby the labour unions are set up against the proletarian Communist Parties, and war is declared upon the Communist