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have now been thrown into jail as adherents of the Communist International. We are still too little informed about the situation in Roumania, but we may state that we have achieved good results here.
Our Yugo-Slav Party has now been driven underground. It was a large party with a membership close to 80,000. The centrists there have the meanness to issue a legal paper, and to take advantage of the situation against the Communists. The centrist, wing has been excluded, and now belongs to the 2½ International. Whether there has been left a remnant of these centrists in the party I am not in a position to vouch, because the present status of this illegal party is not quite clear to us. Let us hope that such is not the case. But if it be so, we shall use the present opportunity and ask the Yugo-Slav delegation, which is well represented here, to tell whether they are willing to start fighting the centrists to-day or to-morrow. Reformism is a specific poison. Comrade Barbusse has written a brilliant article about reformist-socialism. Barbusse declares that reformism is the specific poison for the working class. If a few drops of this poison gets into our body, an inflammation might break out just at the moment when we are engaged in a hard fight. We must be on our guard against this poison, and always be prepared to administer antidotes, and not in homeopathic doses at that.
Our Bulgarian Party is one of the few parties which, like that of the Czecho-Slovaks, seems to have the support of the majority of the working class in its country. According to the last information, this party may have to become illegal, and suffer a great deal from white terror. We do not know whether this information is correct. An accusation has been made against this party that they have not always taken up the fight en masse at the decisive moment. Investigation has proved this to he untrue. We have followed the history of this party since 1903, during
