THE RESOLUTION OF A GENERAL MEETING OF RCP(B) CELL BUREAUS

From THE RESOLUTION OF A GENERAL MEETING OF RCP(B) CELL BUREAUS AND FUNCTIONARIES OF THE KHARKOV PARTY ORGANISATION ON THE QUESTION OF PARTY DEVELOPMENT

December 19, 1923

Attended by over 1,000 Party members The meeting fully subscribes to the resolution of the Central Committee of the RCP and expresses  complete confidence in the CC RCP and its policy. The meeting notes that while being a means of ascertaining defects and of charting the work of the whole Party, the current discussion should under no circumstances be turned into a struggle of individual groups, for that might lead to the danger of a split in the Party. Believing that a unanimous settlement of all the questions raised in the resolution of the Political Bureau of the CC and the Presidium of the CCC is the guarantee that the Party will unanimously embark on the implementation of these decisions, the meeting notes the mistake committed by Trotsky in printing the article “A New Course”, which is widely used by the opposition to intensify the struggle against the Central Committee.

The Party in the Struggle for the Restoration etc., p. 517

From THE RESOLUTION OF AN EXTENDED PLENARY MEETING OF THE BAKHMUTSKY AREA PARTY COMMITTEE ON THE SITUATION IN THE PARTY AND ON THE IMMEDIATE TASKS OF PARTY WORK IN THE DONBAS

December 1923

Having heard the report on the situation in the Party and on the immediate tasks of Party work in the Donbas, the Plenary Meeting of the Bakhmutsky Area Party Committee fully approves and whole-heartedly supports the CC line stated in the resolution of the CC and CCC on Party development. This resolution . . . must underlie all Party activity. The Plenary Meeting believes that in the current discussion the Donets organisation, which is the most thoroughly proletarian, must be a model of unity and solidarity, and of the ability to put the decisions of the CC quickly into effect. The Plenary Meeting calls on all members of the organisation to carry on the discussion in such a way as to lead to the animation of Party thinking, unity and further strengthening of the organisation from top to bottom.

The Party in the Struggle for the Restoration etc., p. 520