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 the reformists, solemnly declares that whenever the Amsterdamers will not resort to expulsions, wherever they will make it possible for the Communists to carry on an ideological struggle for their principles within the labour unions, the Communists will fight in a disciplined manner in the ranks of the united organisation, always placing themselves in the forefront of battle against the bourgeoisie.

The Task of Communist Parties.

The Fourth Congress of the Communist International declares it to be the duty of all Communist parties to make use of all their strength in order to prevent the disruption of labour unions. They must do all they can in order to re-establish the unity of the Labour Union movement in those countries where it has been broken and to induce the Labour Union movement of their countries to join the Red International of Labour Unions.

HE basis of our attitude to the agricultural working masses was already laid down in the agrarian thesis of the Second Congress. The Fourth Congress calls upon all the parties to do their utmost to win over the rural working Eerie in accordance with the following instructions:—

1. The mass of the rural proletarians and the poor peasants, who do not possess enough land and must work part of the time for wages, or are exploited in any other way by the big landlords or capitalists, can be freed from their present servitude and from want which are inevitable under capitalism only by a proletarian revolution. This revolution will confiscate the land of the big landowners and all the means of production without compensation, putting them at the disposal of the workers, who will establish the Soviet State of proletarians and working peasants in lieu of the government of big landowners and capitalists, thus paving the way to Communism.

2. In the struggle against the government of the big landowners and the capitalists, the poor peasants and small holders are the natural allies of the agricultural and industrial proletariat. By joining in the struggle of the proletariat in the cities and in the rural districts, they will contribute to a great extent to the overthrow of the bourgeois State. While the urban proletariat seizes political power and confiscates the means of production of the bourgeoisie, the rural proletariat and the poor peasantry take possession of the land, drive away the big landowners and put an end to the domination of the agrarians and bourgeoisie in the country.