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 that it is better for the cause of the working class to have a small but truly Communist faction, than a numerous one without a regular Communist line of conduct.

4. A Communist delegate by decision of the Central Committee is bound to combine lawful work with illegal work. In countries where the Communist delegate enjoys a certain Inviolability, this must be utilised by way of rendering assistance to the illegal organisation and for the propaganda of the Party.

5. The Communist members shall make all their parliamentary work dependent on the work of the Party outside the parliament. The regular proposal of demonstrative law-projects, not for them to be passed by the bourgeois majority, but for the purposes of propaganda, agitation and organisation, must be carried on under the directions of the Party and its Central Committee.

6. In the event of labour demonstrations in the streets or other revolutionary movements, the Communist members must occupy the most conspicuous placeat the head of the proletarian masses.

7. The Communist members must enter into relations (under the control of the Party), either by writing or otherwise, with the revolutionary workmen, peasants and other workers, and not resemble in this respect the Social Democratic members, who try to enter into business relations with their constituents.