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 Syndicalists. But co-ordination of activities presupposes organisation of Communists. When scattered and acting individually, the Communists cannot co-ordinate their activities with anybody, for they do not represent any serious force.

19. Advancing in a most decisive and consistent manner, their Communist principles, conducting the struggle against the anti-Communist theory of independence and against the opposing of politics to economics—this Anarchist conception so harmful to the working class—the Communists must strive within the labour unions of all directions and tendencies to co-ordinate their work in the practical struggle against Reformism and Anarcho-Syndicalist verbalism, with all revolutionary elements who stand for the overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

20. In countries where there are serious revolutionary Syndicialist labour union organisations (as in France), and where, under the influence of various historical causes a distrust with regard to political parties continues to dominate the minds of certain strata of workers, the Communists, in agreement with the Syndicalists, must work out, in accordance with the peculiarities of the country and of the labour movement, the forms and methods of joint struggle and co-operation in all offensive and defensive actions against capitalism.

'''VI. The Struggle for Unity in the Trade Union Movement.'''

21. The slogan of the Communist International in relation to this matter of the splitting of the labour unions must be carried out in the future as heretofore with unrelenting energy, regardless of the fierce persecutions of the Communists by the reformists of all lands. The reformists resort to expulsions in order to provoke a split. Their hope is by the systematic expulsion of the best elements of the labour unions, to make the Communists lose their self-control and to drive the latter to give up their well-thought-out plan for the conquest of the labour unions from within, to get out of the unions, to declare themselves in favour of a split. But the reformists will not succeed in their scheme.

22. A split in the labour union movement will gravely imperil the working-class movement as a whole, especially under the present circumstances. A split in the labour unions will throw the working class back by many years, for it would be easy in that case for the bourgeoisie to deprive the workers of the most elementary of their gains. The Communists must do their utmost to hinder a split in the labour union movement; they must use the entire strength of their organisation to defeat the criminal plan conceived by the reformists for the breaking up of the united labour union movement.

23. In those countries where there are two parallel general labour union centres, as in Spain, France, Czecho-Slovakia, etc., the Communists must conduct a systematic fight for the reuniting of the parallel organisations. For this reuniting