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 and are ready to break with the yellow International. The Communist International intends to organise an international section composed of the red labour unions which recognise the principles of Communism. The Communist International will not refuse to cooperate with purely nonpolitical workers' organisations desirous of carrying on a serious revolutionary struggle against the bourgeoisie. But at the same time the Communist International will never cease to repeat to the workers of all the world:

1. The Communist International is the chief and essential instrument for the liberation of the working class. In each country there must now be not only Communist groups, or tendencies, but—a Communist Party.

2. In every country there must be only one Communist Party.

3. The Communist Party must be founded on the principle of the strictest centralisation, and during the period of civil war it must introduce military discipline in its ranks.

4. In every place where there are a dozen proletarians or semi-proletarians, the Communist Party must have an organised nucleus.

5. In each nonpolitical organisation there must be a Communist nucleus strictly subordinate to the Party in general.

6. While firmly and faithfully supporting the program and revolutionary tactics of Communism, the Communist Party must always be