The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-22
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS
PUBLISH TEXT OF
OPPOSITION PLEA
FOR MEMBERSHIP
Resolution of Congress
Given in Full

Especial Cable to DAILY WORKER)
MOSCOW, Dec. 81. - The complete
text of the Opposition's request for
reinstatement and the consequent res
olution adopted by the Fifteenth Con-
gress of the All Union Communist
Party barring the Opposition from
reinstatement as group, is contained
in today's issue of the Pravda.
The Opposition's statement, signed
by Zinoviev, Kamenev, Yevdokimov
and others, follows in full:
"We request permission to bring to
the knowledge of the Congress our
following application. The resolution
of the Congress on the question c. the
Opposition puts before every member
of the former Opposition faction the
question Of his further work for the
proletarian revolution.
'To serve the cause which we served
for years, tens of years, under Lenin's
direction, is impossible either outside
the All-Union Communist Party or by
way of organization of a second party.
This cause can be served only by be-
ing within the ranks of the All-Union
Communist Party.
Repudiate Views.
However, the Congress expelled
us from the All-Union Communist
Party. Therefore, however severe be
the demands put to us by the Con-
gress, whatever be the force of the
conviction with which we upheld our
views before the Congress, we must
submit our will and our views to the
will and views of the Party, for it is
the only leader Of the proletarian
revolution and the only supreme judge
of what is useful and what is harm
full to the victorious march of the rev.
olution.
"The declaration of the 10th of De-
cember regarding the surrender of the
propagation of our views in the Con-
gress was found inadequate and I'M
satisfactory. We therefore submit
and will comply with the demand of
the Congress regarding theological
and organizational disarmament.
fledge ODedience.
1--WE undertake to defend the views
and decisions of the Party, its Con-
crosses, it's conferences, and it's Gen.
trail Committee We consider as
wrong, and in accordance with the res
olutions of the Congress we condemn
as being anti-Leninist, the views de-
nying the possibility of victorious
construction in the u. S. S. r. of a
Socialistic character, denying that our
revolution is of Socialistic charac-
ter, that our state industry is on So
cialist path, that the development of
villages under conditions of proletar-
ian dictatorship and the policy of al
lance of the proletariat with the main
masses Of the peasantry on the basis
Of Socialist construction is possible or
denying the proletarian dictatorship
of the U. S. S. R. ("Thermidor).
Admit Mistakes. a.
eve consider our fundamental mis-
take in that our struggle against
the Central Committee of the Party
took such a form that our actions
brought about the real danger of a
second party. We must recognize as
mistakes the action of the 7th of No
vember, the seizure of the premises
to Moscow High Technical College,
the organization of illegal printing
offices, etc. Anyone attempting to
organize a separate party against the
Communist Party inevitably puts him
self in opposition to the Communist
International and the U. S. S. R. and
is inevitably thrown into the enemy's
camp. This refers not only to the ALL
Union Communist Party, but also to
all sections of the Communist Inter-
national. We therefore recognize as
a mistake the maintenance of connec-
tons with the group of Maslow-Ruth
Fisher, and sever them. AS regards
Korsch, Souvarine, Rossmer, ROLAND,
Hoist, Liebers we had and have moth
ing in common with them.
"We beg the Congress to reinstate
'ps into the Party and give us the pos
sibility to participate in the practical,
everyday work of the Party.
T(Signed) Kamenev, Yevdokimov,
Zindviev, Bakaiev, Kuklin, Lashevitch,
Avdeyev, Solovyev, Hessen, Pekar-
'OrleS, Federev, Lilina, Zalutsky, Har-
itonoS, Babakhan, Sharov, Ravich,
Lukianov, 1elkovitch, Reingold, Bel
iais, Furtitchev, Minitchev.
December Is, 1927"
Resolutions of Congress.
This statement was handed to the
Congress on the 10Th of December,
after the Congress had passed the
resolution of December 18th on ex-
pulsion of the Opposition from the
party.
The full text of the resolution unan-
imously adopted by the Congress on
the 10Th of December with reference