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 promise himself does not depend on us, but on his opportunistic policy of compromise with the bourgeoisie. But we, on the contrary, point to the only path by which bankruptcy can be avoided, that is, the path to the realization of the proletarian revolution. But will Calles follow this path? We have sufficient reasons not only to doubt this but to answer in the negative. Calles, Morones, Felipe Carrillo, Soto у Gema, etc. are the Kerenskis, the Eberts, the Noskes, and the Scheidemanns of Mexico. They will wed themselves to Gompers and his whole treacherous clique. But in our propaganda we must as far as possible force the socialists and agrarians to the left. We must demand a declaration today from Calles on the disarming of the peasants which Obregon instigated; we must demand protection for striking workers; punishment for the officials guilty of the murder of workers in Vera Cruz and San-Angel; a ruthless struggle against the fascists; the regulation of Articles 27 and 123; measures against the housing crisis; the division of large estates without recompense to the landlords, etc.

We will not discuss in detail the question of the united front. The debates held during the Third and Fourth World Congresses and during the meeting of the Enlarged Executive of the Comintern which was held recently, are familiar to you. The important thing is to put the question of the united front concretely with reference to conditions in Mexico. The Communist Party must link up the struggle for the united front with all the political and economic questions which affect the interests of the toiling masses. The first task is to popularize the idea of the united front within the organized masses. In the greatest mass movement which the Party has organized thus far, the "Movimiento del Inquilinato," it did not understand how to mould this movement into a mighty driving force for the unfolding of the struggle for the united front. The communists must realize clearly what it means to apply practically "the formation of the united front." It does not mean an amalgamation with the reformists and syndicalists into some rose-colored black-capped united organization. Nor, as some comrades believe, does it mean "temporary compromises," or "a sly artifice" on the part of the Communist Party to unmask the reformists. It is true that the communists, in their fight for the united front, want to unmask the reformists and will unmask them. That is no "sly artifice" on the part of the Communist Party, but a revolutionary fight of the advance guard of the working class against the bureaucratic leaders of the trade un-