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 have been fulfilled, and that the nature of the activity of the party has become Communist.

16. In regard to the question as to what must be the line of conduct of the Communists at present constituting the minority at the responsible posts of the above-named and similar parties, the Second Congress of the Third International should establish, that in view of the evident growth of the sincerest sympathies for Communism among the workmen belonging to these parties, it would be undesirable for the Communists to leave the parties, so long as they are able to carry on their work within the parties in the spirit of a recognition of the dictatorship of the proletariat and of the criticism of all opportunists and centrists still remaining in these parties.

At the same time the Second Congress of the Third International must declare itself in favour of the Communist Party, and the groups and organizations sympathising with Communism in England, joining the Labour Party, nothwithstandingnotwithstanding [sic] the circumstance that this party is a member of the Second International. The reason for this is that so long as this party will allow all constituent organisations their present freedom of criticism and freedom of propaganda, and organizational activity in favour of the dictatorship of the proletariat and the power of Soviets, so long as this party preserves its principle of uniting all the indus-