Editorials supporting the old resolution were submitted by Jay Lovestone, Will Herberg, Herbert Zam and others, while an article against the current resolution by Lazar Becker was broken up and published over three issues. Portions of Gitlow's own contribution, "The Russian Question critically considered" were published in two issues, but not the conclusion. The majority argued that the general line of the CPSU was correct, and the opposition was offering "constructive criticism" of the Stalin leadership's "mistakes" in its application domestically within the Soviet Union and with regards to the relationship between the CPSU and the other parties in the Comintern. Furthermore, the "Russian question" was not a defining issue for the group. Gitlow and Becker argued that a correct understanding of the "Russian question" was of decisive importance to the group and the position taken on it determined whether the group had a justification for being. Gitlow argued that though the CPSU's official line as determined by the 15th congress was correct, the Stalin leadership had veered so far away from it that the Party's general line was no longer correct and was going in the direction of Trotskyism.