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 Communist members of the parliament; (6) To be in constant touch with the illegal work and to profit by parliamentary immunity, as far as It exists, for these purposes; (7) An immediate remand or exclusion from the Party of any member of the parliamentary group who violates in his parliamentary work any of the orders of the Party.

1S. The elective campaign must be carried on not In the sense of obtaining a maximum of votes, but in that of a revolutionary mobilisation of the masses around the mottoes of the Proletarian Revolution. The election campaign must be conducted by the entire mass of party members, not by the leaders alone; it is necessary to make use of and be in complete touch with all the demonstrations of masses (strikes, demonstrations, movements among the soldiers and sailors, etc.) going on at the given moment; it is necessary to summon all the masses of the proletarian organisations to active work.

16. In complying with all these conditions the parliamentary work must present a contrast to the dirty "politics" which is practised by the Social Democratic parties of all countries, who enter parliament with the object of supporting that "democratic" institution, or at the best to "win it over". The Communist Party can only recommend a revolutionary use of the parliament, exemplified by Karl Liebknecht, Höglund and the Bolsheviks.