THE RESOLUTION “ON THE REPORT OF THE CPSU(B) DELEGATION

THE RESOLUTION  “ON THE REPORT OF THE CPSU(B) DELEGATION IN THE COMINTERN EXECUTIVE”

In view of the extremely complex tasks facing the Communist proletariat there must be absolute ideological unity and iron organisational solidarity of the Comintern ranks. The Congress places on record that the sections and the Executive Committee of the Comintern have given the CPSU(B) solid and unanimous support against the Trotskyite opposition, whose behaviour the Comintern Executive has denounced as a betrayal of communism. Having broken completely with Leninism and adopted the Menshevik-liquidationist platform, the Trotskyite opposition, which by its slander against the USSR continues to help the Soviet Union’s most bitter enemies, openly engages in the unprecedentedly brazen divisive activity and has rallied under its banner the most odious renegades and apostates—from Korsch and Ruth Fischer to Souvarine and Liebers—can no longer be tolerated in the ranks of the Comintern. The task is to purge the Comintern thoroughly of all the anticommunist elements that have rallied round the Trotskyite opposition.

Despite individual opportunist errors in a number of Communist parties, errors that are systematically rectified by the leadership of the Comintern Executive, the Bolshevisation of the Comintern sections has made further considerable progress during the past two years. The Congress expresses the confidence that the Comintern leadership will ensure the further Bolshevisation of its ranks and their further education in the spirit of genuine Leninism. In this respect the Congress considers that it is particularly important, on the one hand, to surmount parliamentary illusions and traditions and wage a determined struggle against opportunist deviations generally and, on the other, to make every effort to intensify and promote work among the masses and in the trade unions.

The largest sections of the Comintern and the Communist International as a whole have grown sufficiently strong ideologically and organisationally to give political leadership to the new upsurge of the working-class movement and direct it along the revolutionary road.

The Congress instructs the CC to give its utmost attention to the further strengthening of the Comintern, of its prestige among the proletarian masses, of its work in general and of its organisational apparatus in particular.

The CPSU in Resolutions etc.,

8th Russ. ed., Vol. 4, p. 30