The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-04-16
THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE End CONGRESS OF THE 3rd COM
N1INTST INTERNA Moscow i92o


ing assistance to the petty bourgeois anarchist
centrifugal tendencies.
II. In country where the bourgeoisie, or the
counter-revolutionary Social Democracy is in power,
the Communist Party must learn to coordinate its
legal work with its illegal work, and the legal
work must always be under the effective control
of the illegal party. The parliamentary fractions
of the Communists, both in the central and in the
local governmental institutions must be entirely
and absolutely spbordinated to the Communist Par
ty as whole, irrespective of whether at the given
moment the party as whole is legal or an illegal
organization. All the Deputies who in one form or
another refuse to submit to the party must be ex-
PEELED from the ranks of the Communists
The legal press newspapers and publishing
houses) must be absolutely and entirely subordnat-
ed to the party as whole and to its central COM
mittee No concessions in this regard are permis-
sibe. ~
Is. The basic starting point in the whole organi-
cation work Of the Communist Party must be the
creation of communistic groups. Everywhere wher-
ever there is even small number of proletarians
or semiproletarans, in every Soviet of Workmen's
Deputies. in every professional or trade union in
every cooperative organization, in every shop, in
every house committee, in every governmental in
stitution everywhere where there can be found at
least three people sympathetic with Communism
it is necessary immediately to organize a COM
munistic group. Only the organized activity of Com
munists makes it possible for the vanguard of the
working class to lead the whole class All Com
munist groups, operating in nonparty organiza-
tions irrespective of whether the party is at the>
given moment legal or illegal. The Communist
groups of all kinds should recognize further SUBJ
ordination to each other in strict herarchal
order, and as far as possible according to a most
rigid system.
10. The Communist Party should almost every
where begin as a municipal party, as the party of
the industrial wOrkmen living mostly in the cities
To secure the easiest and the speediest victory of
the working class, it is necessary that the Com
munist Party should become not only party of the
cities. but also of the villages. The Communist
Party should conduct its propaganda and its organi
zation among the agricultural laborers, the small
propertied, and the midde-cass peasantry. The
Communist Party should make particular effort to
bring about the organization of Communist groups
in the villages.
The international organization of the proletarat
can be strong only if in all the countries where
Communists live and struggle there shall become
established the view of the role of the Communist
Party which has just been stated. The Communist
International invites to its congresses every profess
sional or trade union recognizing the principles of
the iii International and ready to break with the
Yellow International. The Communist International
will organize its own international section of red
professional trade unions, which accept the doc
trinc sof Communism. The Communist Interr4 tiorl
will not scorn work in every nonparty labor organ-
zation, if the latter should desire to conduct in
earnest revolutionary struggle against the bour-
geoisie. But the Communist International in every
such case will point the following to the prole-
tarians of the whole world:
l. The Communist Party is the chief and the
basic instrument for the liberation of the working
class. We must now have in every country NOT
groups and movements but Communist Party. q
@ In every country there must be only one united
Communist Party.
8. The Communist Party must be built upon the
principle of strictest Capitalization, and during the
period of the civil war must establish within its
ranks military discipline.
a. Wherever there are at least 10 proletarians or
semiproletarians. the Communist Party must have
its organized group.
5. In every nonparty organization there must
exist a party Communist group, which must obey
implicitly the party as whole.
g.. Defending firmly and undoubtedly the program
and the revolutionary tactics of Communism, the
Communist Party must always be in the closest
contact with the mass labor organizations and
must hold itself away from sectaranism in the
same measure as from lack Of principles.
Next week Lenn's Report on Colonial Questions
and Discussions.)
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