RESOLUTION ON THE DISCUSSION IN THE RUSSIAN COMMUNIST PARTY

RESOLUTION ON THE DISCUSSION IN THE RUSSIAN COMMUNIST PARTY*

(Adopted at the Fifth Extended Plenary Meeting of the Comintern Executive, 1925)

The Extended Plenary Meeting finds that Comrade Trotsky’s action, which started a new discussion in the Russian Communist Party, was an attempt to revise Leninism and disorganise the leadership in the RCP(B).

The Extended Plenary Meeting finds that this action was supported by all the forces hostile to Bolshevism. In the Comintern it was supported by all the Right-wing elements in the Communist parties, namely by elements whose tactics have been repeatedly condemned at international congresses as being of a semi-Social-Democratic nature. Outside the Comintern, this action was supported by a number of persons who have been expelled from the communist ranks (Levi, Rosmer, 

Monatte, Balabanova, Höglund and others). Lastly, the Social-Democratic and bourgeois press made 

every effort to take advantage of this action.

Objectively, this action was, thus, not only an attempt to disorganise the ranks of the RCP(B), but inflicted immense injury to the Comintern as a whole.

The Extended Plenary Meeting of the Comintern Executive associates itself entirely with the resolution of the Plenary Meeting of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) in both the part giving a 

principled assessment of Trotskyism and the part stating the measures that have been taken.

The Extended Plenary Meeting of the Comintern Executive is of the opinion that the RCP(B) must continue to give a similarly unanimous rebuff to all attacks on Leninist theory and practice. The Plenary Meeting welcomes the explanatory campaign conducted by the RCP(B) and considers that an explanatory campaign of an equally high level against anti-Leninist deviations should be conducted by the Communist parties of other countries.

The Plenary Meeting is of the opinion that the RCP(B) can fulfil its great historical mission provided there is solid unity in its leadership. Any attempt to shake this unity will inflict the greatest injury to the whole of the Communist International, and will, therefore, be most sternly and emphatically condemned by it.

The CPSU in Resolutions etc.,

6th Russ. ed., Part II, p. 789