RESOLUTIONS OF LOCAL PARTY ORGANISATIONS ON THE STRUGGLE AGAINST TROTSKYISM

RESOLUTION OF A GENERAL MEETING OF WORKER MEMBERS AND CANDIDATE MEMBERS OF THE PARTY OF THE IVANOVO-VOZNESENSK TOWN DISTRICT ON THE QUESTION OF INNER-PARTY DEMOCRACY

December 19, 1923

l. Having heard the report on the Party’s current tasks, the general district meeting fully subscribes to the resolution of the Central Committee of the RCP and strongly condemns groups and factions of all kinds, which under present-day conditions threaten to splinter the Party and, consequently, the state power.

2. The general district meeting considers it mandatory for itself and all the cells of the Gubernia Party organisation strictly to promote and renew the Party apparatus but, at the same time, we emphatically condemn the viewpoint that unfoundedly separates the Party apparatus and suggests the break-up of the main nucleus of the Party apparatus.

3. Further, the meeting considers it wrong and harmful to contrapose the youth to veterans, and considers that in connection with this counterposing the hints about the possibility of our old battle-tested leaders degenerating into opportunism are particularly dangerous.

4. The general district meeting recommends that all cells should start a business-like discussion of all the questions deriving from the resolution of the Central Committee of the RCP and map out measures to ensure the fullest implementation of these resolutions.

5. The meeting emphatically condemns as impermissible the sharp forms that the discussion has lately acquired. The Party’s least painful switch to the new course can be guaranteed only by unshakable unity in the Party.

6. The meeting considers that all cells should without delay discuss the situation in our economy and its prospects, the question of “scissors”, wages, the role of state trade, co-operatives, private trade, the plan of organising the economy and so on. In particular, the question of the relations between the economic bodies and the trade unions must be thoroughly examined.

7. In order to carry out the tasks set in the resolution of the Central Committee of the RCP, the meeting proposes that the elections of the cell bureaus should be held not later than in January 1924.

The Party in the Struggle for the Restoration of the Economy (1921- 1925), 

Russ. ed., Moscow, 1961,pp. 516-17