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 (b) The necessity of a struggle against the clergy and other reactionary and mediaeval influences possessing an influence in such backward countries;

(c) The necessity of a struggle against Pan-Islamism and such tendencies, which strive to unite the liberation movement against European and American imperialism with a strengthening of the position of the khans, landowners, moolahs, etc.

(d) The necessity of supporting the peasant movement in backward countries against the landowners, against the possession of large estates, against all customs and remnants of feudalism, and of striving to give the peasant movement a revolutionary nature, bringing about a closer union between the West European Communist proletariat and the revolutionary movement of the peasants in the countries in the east, the colonies and in the backward general;

(e) The necessity of a decisive struggle against the tend ency to dress up the bourgeois-democratic liberation tendencies in the backward countries in the colours of Communism; the Communist International must support the bourgeois-democratic national movements in the colonies and backward countries only on the condition that the elements of the future proletarian parties, Communist in name only, should be grouped and educated in the knowledge of their special tasks-those of a struggle against the bourgeois-democratic movements within their nation; the Communist International may enter into a temporary union with the bourgeois-democracy of colonies and backward countries, but not intermingle with it, and invariably preserve the independence of the proletarian movement even in its most primitive form;

(f) The necessity of an ever-constant explanation and denunciation among the working masses of all countries and especially all backward countries, of the deceit which is systematically practised by the imperialistic powers; which, under the pretext of creating politically independent nations, really create countries completely depending