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 118 This is explained by the correctness of our political tactics and by the correct estimation of the relation of forces between the working class and its enemies. We may very definitely say that the development of the international labor movement will lead to the creation of one single trade union international. This international will be created upon the final disappearance of the Amsterdam International.

Such is the logical development of historical events, against which the Amsterdamers can do nothing.

Do these movements we have described exhaust all tendencies there are in the international labor movement? Are there some other small streams along side the great rivers? There is one other organization which pretends to lead the international labor movement. This organization calls itself the "International Workingmens' Association," that is, they adopt the name of the First International, organized by Karl Marx.

This organization appeared at the end of 1922 at the initiative of the German syndicalists. Why was this international organized? It was organized as an opposition to the Communist tendency of the Profintern. This international is opposed to our slogan of Proletarian Dictatorship and against our policies, against our methods of struggle, and against our bloc with the Communist parties.

There is opposition against us in Spain, among the French syndicalists, among the "Industrial Workers of the World" of the United States and the syndicalist organizations of South America. To these few syndicalist organizations are added small groups of Italian, German, Dutch and Swedish syndicalists.

These anarcho-syndicalist groupings, come out against the Profintern with a few accusations. First, the connections of the Profintern with the Comintern; second, its political orientation; third, that the Profintern is advocating as one of its main slogans the dictatorship of the proletariat; fourth that it is for violence, that it is upholding Soviet Russia.

The peculiarity of anarcho-syndicalism in the post-war period is in that its pre-war unity, its pre-war clarity of principles, are gone. The war and the revolution brought colossal changes into the anarcho-syndicalist organizations. Among them appeared a faction which is for the dictatorship of the proletariat. Part of the anarcho-syndicalists went over to the Communists, another part is for co-operation with the Communists.