That can only be ensured if there is unity in action and the right and duty to criticise and self-criticise. Differences should be expressed openly - in print and at party meetings. They must be allowed to take organisational form, including the form of factions. Factions are organisations within the party not united by geography, nationality, sex or any other objective criteria, but a common political position. This can be confined to one particular question or it can involve a whole range of issues and principles.
Factions are permissible in any revolutionary democratic communist party.
If factions are subject to a permanent ban they will reappear as illegal factions within a bureaucratic centralist regime. Without the right to form factions there can be no genuine democracy in the party. The right to form factions provides the best conditions for overcoming factionalism and the replacement of factional centres with the difference of shade. Party work and frank exchange of views is what brings about the unity of communists both in terms of theory and practice. Members of factions have the same rights and responsibilities as all other members of the party.