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 day courses, form a corps of teachers and lecturers, organise libraries, etc., as the circumstances demand. It is the duty of the Party to render the independent educational work of the Communist Youth material and intellectual support. The Youth should be admitted to all the educational activities of the Party. The revolutionary bringing up of the proletarian children should be conducted in common with the Communist Youth. The policy for these activities will be issued by the educational sections of the Executive of the Comintern.

An international educational section should be erected in the E.C. Its principal tasks are the solution-of the educational problem of the Communist Parties, the conduct of the whole educational activity of the Parties, the unification of the proletarian educational institutions outside the Party. To these tasks belong the collection and spread of international experiences, the estimation of the forms and methods of work required by every country, the preparation and publication of manuals, text-books and other material, and the solution of all educational problems, which may come up in any country. In order to deal with the problem of school policies of the Communist Parties and the Communist International, international courses should be organised in the Socialist Academy and other similar institutions in Soviet Russia for higher Marxist training and practical Communist education.

Tasks of Agitation.

1. Every member of the Communist International must consider himself an agitator among the masses. This can always take place wherever and whenever workers usually gather, in the workshops, in the trade unions, at mass meetings in workers' clubs, in sport clubs, musical societies, tenants' and consumers' organisations, in people's houses, in workers' restaurants, in the trains, in the villages etc., and even in the homes of the workers (house-to-house agitation).

2. The agitation shall always take as its starting point the concrete conditions and needs of the worker in order to lead them on the path of organised, revolutionary class war. One should not expound Communist Doctrines which would not be understood by the audience; one should always urge them to rise and fight for the immediate demands of the proletariat against capitalist and bourgeois class rule wherever it appears.

3. In all the struggles of the workers against the capitalists and bourgeois regime, the Communists should always energetically defend the interests of the workers, fight in the front ranks for the interests of the whole working class, sacrifice their own personal interests and let their example serve as the best means of propaganda.

4. The leading Party organs should issue practical instructions to all local groups on the regular propaganda work of all members of the Party, as well as the activity in special campaigns (electoral, high cost of living, and tax campaigns,