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The political organisational work of the Party should be centred in the factory nuclei. The factory nuclei, by leading the struggles of the working masses for their everyday needs, should direct them into the fight for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. A factory nucleus should, therefore, consider and determine its point of view upon every political or economic question agitating the working masses, and upon every conflict arising in the revolutionary method of settling questions and, as the most conscious and active part of the working class, must assume the leadership of the struggle.

In addition to general Party work, the tasks of the factory nuclei are as follows:—

(1) To carry on Communist agitation and propaganda among the non-party working masses; systematic instruction of individual workers in order to draw them into the ranks of the Communist Party; distribution of political literature in the factories; discussion of questions affecting the factory and even the publication of a special factory newspaper; the carrying on of social and agitational work among the factory workers.

(2) Determined and continual efforts must be made to win elected posts in the shops, trade unions, co-operatives, factory committees, control commissions, &c.

(3) The nuclei should participate in all the economic conflicts and demands of the workers. The task of the nuclei is to broaden and deepen the movement, to point out to the workers the political consequences of the struggle, and to persuade them to adopt the wider struggle (both economic and political) and to set up a United Front of the workers against the bourgeoisie and against Fascism.

(4) The nuclei must carry on an obstinate fight in the factories and workshops against the members and followers of other parties, also of the socialist parties and other "labour parties," using for this purpose facts relating to the activities of these parties which can be understood even by the most backward section of the working class.

(5) They must bring about contact between the employed and unemployed workers in order to avoid a conflict between them.

(6) Where conditions are ripe, they must carry on a fight for workers' control of the industries, banks, land and transport, and for the supply of the workers with the primary needs of life.

(7) They must exert an influence upon the youth and working women employed in the factories, and draw them into the struggle. They must assist in the formation of young