against the co-operative bureaucracy which, shielding itself under the slogan of democracy, has reduced this principle to a hollow phrase, while in reality they arbitrarily do whatever they please in the co-operatives, refusing to call general meetings and entirely: ignore the will of the working masses. Finally, it is necessary that the Communist nuclei in the co-operatives must secure the election of their members, including women, to the management and the control organs of the co-operative societies, and take the necessary measures to provide the Communists with the knowledge and training requisite for directing the co-operatives.
Resolution on Communist work
amongst Women
THE Fourth World Congress of the Communist International expresses its approval of the activity of the International Communist Women's Secretariat in Berlin, as an auxiliary organ of the Executive during the period covered by the report. The International Communist Women's Secretariat has concentrated its activity on bringing the women Communists as members into the sections of the Communist International in all the countries with a revolutionary movement, and to train them for Party work and struggles. It has also contributed a great deal towards spreading the Communist propaganda and organisation work among the widest possible female masses, in order to draw them into the movement and struggle for the interests of the working class and for Communism.
The International Communist Women's Secretariat has made it its business to co-ordinate the work of the organised Communist women on an international scale, viz., to establish connection between their work and that of the Communist Parties and of the Communist International. In the International Women’s Secretariat we have succeeded in conjunction with the Communist Parties of the various countries, in extending and consolidating the international relations between the Communist women organised within these Parties. Its entire activity has been carried on in complete harmony with the Executive and under the guidance of the latter according to the fundamental and technical directives and decisions of the World Congress of the Communist International and of the Second International Communist Women's Conference in Moscow.
The special bodies (Women's Secretariats, Women's Sections, etc.), established in accordance with these directives and decisions, and the special methods applied in Communist Party work among women, have not only proved useful, but
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