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 Expelled Members Leagues and the union will work in close co-operation with the National Committee of the Factory Councils. Under these conditions, the party must carry on its work with special care, energy, and system among the unorganised and non-party masses, in order to prevent the break-up of the working class which is the aim of the trade union bureaucrats.

In refusing to negotiate with the leaders of the reformist trade union movement as well as with the leaders of the Social Democrats, who are actually allies of the bourgeoisie and of Fascism, the Communists must understand how to carry out the United Front from below in the trade unions by allying the masses of the proletariat organised in the trade unions with those yet unorganised, on the basis of their every-day struggles, and by winning over to this struggle those sections of the working class which have not yet broken away from the Social Democrats. In this connection, the negotiations and agreements between the Communists and the local trade union organisations (local groups, cartels, &c.) in the interest of the struggle, not only do not contradict the tactics of the United Front from below, but on the contrary, provide an important weapon against the trade union bureaucracy and the reformists.

In those cases where the Communists work in co-operation with the Social Democratic workers in the factories and in the organisations, it is the duty of the Communists, in addition to co-ordinating their practical activities, to advance their fundamental standpoint, and ruthlessly criticise the mistakes, the indecision, and the inconsistency of the demands of the Social Democrats.

The Communist Party must openly and clearly explain to the workers: