The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-27

and also that they consider as party
work only work which is within the
Communist Party organization.
Therefore it is essential to impress
on every member of a party nue..
leus, of a Communist fraction, that
his work among non-party social
democrats, syndicalist workers lin
factories, trades unions, co-operat-
ives, workers. sports organizations,
working women's organizations,
sympathizing mass organizations,
and also among the peasantry) -is
also party work, and that for the
majority of party members it must
even be considered as the most i'm
portant part of party work. They
should be careful not to lose their
Identity among the masses, but
should deport themselves as revoIu-
tionary organizers Of mass activ-
ity."
\ Considerable attention was given
'-at~this plenum to the question of
internal policies and tasks Of the
Comintern and of the national Sec
tons. The Comintern remains as be-
fore the centralized world organiza-
ton with international leadership.
But on the initiative of the Russian
delegation a resolution was adopted
declaring for more independence and
self-actiVity of the national parties.
The parties have to stand on their
own feet more-select their own lead
ers, etc. The leadership of the Com
munist International must assume a
more collective character thru the
real and actual participation in the
work of the E. C. G. I. to much
greater extent than before by the fore
most representative of the important
national parties.
A BOVE all the central committees
1 \ of the parties must master the
task of maintaining their leadership
by virtue of their own abilities and
influence, and must not rely too
much on the support of the executive
committee of the Comintern. Com
rade Zinoviev said: Moscow has
broad shoulders Now is the time
to say to all our parties: More indie
pendence.' Nearly every party has
had its own experience, its achieve
ments, and errors. Now is the time
for more independence and not simply
for waiting to hear from Moscow.
When | say this, my words have moth
ing in common with the anti-Moscow
and right elements, for such an atti-
tude is tantamount to a denial of pro-
letarian dictatorship. Such moods
among the ultra left and right are en-
Enthusiastically welcomed by the bour-
geoisie and social democracy. l real
ize that sometimes these moods have
their origin in a a strong nationalist
feeling, and Comrade Lenin has always
warned us of this danger"
HAND in hand with the policy of
= 1 greater independence for the ma
tional sections goes the policy of
greater responsibility by them for the
leadership of the Comintern- as a
whole. [The resolution Of the plenumI
on this question makes it Incumbent
upon the larger sections of the Com
munist International the German
French, Czech and Italian sections to
appoint two representatives each, and
OF other larger parties (including the
Oriental and American parties) one
representative each, who will partici-
pate in the work of the executive
council of the Communist Interna-
tional for a period Of at least six
months after the enlarged executives.
z After the lessons drawn by the
" plenum from the experiences of the
vraious parties in dealing with in
ternal party questions, there cannot