The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-16
Trotsky and Zinoviev
Are Expelled

tai posts.
The text of the resolution follows
in full:
"In order to enable the whole Of the
All Union Communist Party to ade-
quately prepare itself for the Fiji
teenth Congress, the Central Commit
tee has published the theses of the
Central Committee a month before
the Congress in accordance with the
statute of the Party.
Illegal Meetings.
at also published in a discussion
bulletin the counter-theses of the OPP
position as soon as it received them,
and also published the speeches and
the articles Of the Opposition afford
ing the Opposition leaders the fullest
opportunity to defend their views in
the press as well as in Party organi-
zations,and Party nuclei.
"Trotsky and Zinoviev, however,
did not deem it necessary to attend
Party meetings, but continued to or
ganize illegal meetings, in which rep
resentatives of the Party did not par
ticipate.
Non-Party Allies.
GIN spite of this, the Opposition far
from relinquishing its policy of dis
ruption and disintegration of Party
unity, increased it's destructive work.
Having been thoroughly repudiated
by all nuclei, in which discussions
were held, and having failed to obtain
even one per cent of the votes Of
Party members participating in the
discussions, the Opposition proceeded
to issue illegal leaflets distorting the
activities of the Party, which were
printed with stolen type and paper.
Secondly, it proceeded to organize
a series of illegal anti-Party meetings,
in which non-p roletarian elements
hostile to the Party and the working
class participated.
Thirdly, it prepared illegal anti
Party meetings and anti-Party DEM
onstrations at which plans were dis
cussed for continued struggle
against the Party, and into which
were drawn bourgeois elements hos
tile to the Party, the Soviet Union
and the proletariat.
-... Seized Lecture Rooms.
"Fourthly, the Opposition proceeded
to seize lecture rooms in the Moscow
Technical College for anti-Party meet
ing at which representatives of the
Party policy were abused.
"Fifthly, it organized open meet
ings at which speeches were delivered
against the All Union Communist
Party and the Soviet Government.
"Sixthly, the Opposition leaders in
stead of coming on the platform near
Lenin's mausoleum and greeting, in
conjunction with the other comrades,
the millions of Moscow and Leningrad
workers, went into the highways and
byways in an effort to organize a
demonstration against the Party and
attempted to scatter and post leaflets
against the Party appealing to ele-
ments hostile to the Party and the
Soviet Government to seize important
premises, substituting their own COM
mandants for Soviet commandments
and posting their, own armed guards,
thus infringing on Soviet law and or
der and becoming the mouthpiece of
forces hostile to the dictatorship of
the proletariat.
Inadmissable Actions.
~,
and the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
declare these actions utterly mad
missable for members of the Party
particularly for members of the Cen
trail Committee and the Central Con-
troll Commission-and resolve:
"First, to expel from the Central
Committee the following members and
candidates: Kameneff, Smilga, Yevdo-
kimoff, Rakovsky, Avdeyeff and to
expel the following members from the
Central Control Commission-Mur-
aloff, Bakaeff, Shklovsky, Peterson,
| Solovieff and Lisdin.
Secondly, the Central Committee
ana the central control COMMISSION
consider it essential to relieve the said
comrades from responsible Party and
governmental work.
Expel Trotsky, Zinoviev.
Thirdly, in regard to Trotsky and
Zinoviev who are the chief leaders Of
the anti-Party activity which is clear
ly developing into anti Soviet activity
and undermining the dictatorship of
| the proletariat, and taking into con-
sideration that in response to the cat
egorical demand that the Opposition
Immediately cease it's organization OF
anti-Party meetings and refrain from
carrying inner-Party discussion be-
You'd the limits of the Party, Trotsky
and Zinoviev demonstratively left the
session of the Praesidium of the Cen
trail Control Commission November
II, 1920, sending it a few hours
later written reply rejecting in sub
stance the proposition to adhere to
these obligations which are the ele-
mantarv duties Of auv partVy MON, ha,