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 In view of this, the Second World Congress sees fit to establish the most precise conditions for the joining of new parties, and also to point out to such parties as have already joined the Communist International, the duties laid upon them.

The Second Congress of the Communist International decrees, that the conditions for joining the Communist International shall be as follows:

1. The daily propaganda must bear a truly Communist character.

All the organs of the press which are in the hands of the Party must be edited by reliable Communists, who have proved their loyalty to the cause of the proletarian revolution. The dictatorship of the proletariat should not be spoken of simply as a current well-learnt formula; it must be propagated In such a way that its necessity for each rank and file workman, workwoman, soldier, peasant should follow from every day facts, systematically recorded by our press day by day.

On the pages of the newspapers, at popular meetings, in the labour unions, in the cooperatives, in every place to which the partisans of the Third International have access, they must denounce not only the bourgeoisie, but its assistants, the reformists of all shades and colours.

2. Each organization wishing to join the Communist International shall be bound to remove