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Shops' Councils, and unemployment movement), as well as all actions conducted by the Party. (A copy of all these instructions is to be sent to the Executive Committee of the Comintern.)

5. Every member of the Party has the right to demand from leaders of his organisation concrete and exact information on the agitation he should conduct. It is especially the tasks of the leaders of Communist nuclei, workers' groups, groups of tens, and factions to issue such directives and control their execution. Groups which possess no leaders should at once be provided with an agitation leader to carry out this policy.

6. The primary aim of the organisation to which a member of the Party belongs should provide a centre with the following information on its membership during the coming winter:—

A.—Whether he is conducting any agitation among the non-Party masses—

(a) Regularly?
(b) Casually?
(c) Or not at all?

B.—Whether he takes part in any other Party work—

(a) Regularly?
(b) Casually?
(c) Or not at all?

The Party Central Executive, after consultation with the Executive Committee of the Comintern, shall issue a circular letter to all its organisations to explain clearly how the above questionnaire is to be answered.

The district Executives and the local groups are responsible for the strict execution of this order. The results should be sent to the E.C.C.I. through the Party Central Executive.

Knowledge of the Most Important Resolutions of the Party and the Comintern.

1. Every member of the Communist International must be acquainted not only with the most important decisions of his own Party, but also with the most important decisions of the Communist International.

2. All organisations of the affiliated sections must see to it that every member of the Party knows at least the programme of its own Party and the 21 conditions of the International, as well as the decisions of the Comintern regarding his own Party. The members should be tested as to their knowledge.

3. Every responsible member shall be acquainted with every important tactical and organisatory resolution of the World Congress, and shall be submitted to a test on these topics. This is also desirable for the other members of the Party, but not obligatory.

4. The Party Central Executive in every section must issue the proper instructions to its organisations to carry out this decision, and report to the E.C.C.I. on the results during the coming spring.

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