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national, the opportunist or centrist elements. We have no unified Communist Party of all nationalities there as yet; we must create one. To get a unified, internationally directed and consolidated, well oganised party is the desire of the Executive Committee, which I am emphasising here again.
THE SCANDINAVIAN PARTIES.
I desire to say just a few words about the Scandinavian Parties. In Sweden and Norway there are two different parties. Sweden has experienced, to speak generally, a kind of development from a semi-pacifist party to a really Communist Party, but this development is not yet complete. In Norway there is a mass-party which has remained such, but it must still be freed from certain centrist influences. Much . can be improved in Sweden in the matter of organisation. I read, for example, in paragraph 2 of the statutes of this party:
"The Riksdag faction as well as other party members, who may receive any official task from the government, must, before executing such a task, obtain the approval of the Central Committee, and, in important matters, of the party council."
I must say that I simply do not quite understand this. Neither do I understand point 3:
"The parliamentary faction must conduct its activities in strict accordance with the party programme and the decisions of the party Congress. Between Congresses the parliamentary faction is obliged to execute the tasks appointed to it by the party council of the Central Committee, and to act in accordance with the views of these bodies."
What tasks will the bourgeois government assign to the Communist deputies? It is a riddle which is entirely incomprehensible to me. It is equally so with regard to the discipline to be imposed on the parliamentary faction. It sounds so modest that in
