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moment organizations ETC. The struggle of the
working class youth frequently passed unob-
served by them. They were not able to coun-
teract to sufficient extent the increasing
theological, political and economic pressure OF
the bourgeoisie on the toiling youth by resort
ing to new forms of mass struggle. They did
not embrace and organize the activity of the
broad masses of the young workers. For this
reason they at times remained at the tail of
events, Jagged behind the general political de-
velopment Along with serious opportunist
waverings in the leadership of number of
Leagues Switzerland Germany, Czecho-Slo-
vakia, etc.,, tendencies of isolation, narrow
sectarianism, handicraft methods of work,
which are in reality a manifestation of pas
sivity, frequently covered up with radical
phrases made themselves sharply felt in the
Leagues. Under these conditions the turn
towards mass work correctly indicated by the
Fifth Congress of the Young Communist In
ternational and the need of which was borne
out by subsequent events, as direct basic task
of all Young Communist International Sections
in the capitalist countries, was not realized,
and not even the necessary prerequisites have
been created for it in the form of broad
popularzation of the decisions of the Congress.
AS result of this, we are faced with
serious political and organizational crisis in
number of Leagues (Czecho- Slovakia, England,
Austria, Norway; there is no growth, and
even a decrease in the number of members and
factory nuclei ION the average about 20fo) IN
almost all the other countries. In spite of the
devotion and steadfastness shown in the ten
years of revolutionary struggle for Commu-
nism and the line of the Comintern the Young
Communist International will not be able to
cope with the great tasks confronting it at the
present time if the Leagues will continue to
work as they do
3. The Right danger in the world Commu-
mist movement is the greatest danger. 1t has
been nourished and is still nourished by illu-
sons regarding the firm character of capital
list sterilization, the pressure of strong social
democracy Tin the countries of white terror)
and repression), and leads to tagging behind
of the rapidly developing revolutionary up
surge. In the third period, in the period of
lettering capitalist sterilization, the Right
danger by no means disappears or diminishes
it is even intensified account of the fact that
the opportunists are frightened by the revolu-
tionary wave, the sharpening of class strug-
giles and are so much more rapidly going away
from the Party. For this reason, the Right
danger is the main danger in all Sections Of
the Con,intern, including the Young Communist
international which is organically connected
with the Comintern. Manifestations of the
Communist International can be seen for in
stance in the under estimation of the radical
ization of the working class youth, the minim-
izing of the role of the Young Communist In
ternational as a militant political organiza-
ton of the young workers, the tendency to
separate cultural from political work, political
neutrality sentiments, tagging behind, failure
to appreciate the significance of such forms of
struggle as strikes, negative attitude towards
such new forms of organization as youth rep
resentatives elected in the enterprises, open
and hidden sabotage of reorganization on a
factory nuclei basis, legalist tendencies, etc.
But the Right danger is not the only danger
in the revolutionary movement of the youth.
Along with this danger there is also the So
called cleft danger" namely: tendency to-
wards petty bourgeois radcalism leading to
enforcement of the leadership from the masses
and the mass organizations, its transformation
into narrow groups Of left" phrasemongers.
This danger is expressed in tendencies to coun-
terpose "poltics" to the organizational tasks,
leading in reality to the negation Of mass work
in economic, cultural and sport Organizations,
in survvals of vanguardism; in ignoring the
role of the Young Communist League as a
political-educational organization the basis of
which must be broader than that Of the Party.
The error Of the active Young Communists
consists in the fact that they do not see or
that they underestimate this danger, that they
do not want to or are unable to carry on the
struggle against it, that they frequently take
a neutral position in relation to left" devil
atoms, and by this cultivate the LEFT" danger
and endanger the success of the work for the
transformation Of the Young Communist Lea
que organizations into mass organizations Of
the working class youth. In order to transform
the Young Communist League into real mass