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After this ultimative pledge will have been fulfilled the Executive is to take the necessary steps to bring about a union between the Socialist Party in Italy, after the latter will have purified itself from all reformist and centrist elements, and the Communist Party of Italy, and combine both organisations into a unified section of the Communist International.

2. In Germany the party conference of the U.S.P.U. in Halle was the consequence of the resolutions of the Second World Congress, which in their turn were based on the development of the labour movement. The work of the Executive was directed towards the formation of a strong Communist Party in Germany, and experience has proved that this policy was a correct one. The Congress also completely approves of the attitude of the Executive towards the events within the V.K.P.D.

It expresses the hope that the policy applied to-day in enforcing the fundamental principles of international revolutionary discipline will also be followed by the Executive Committee in the future.

3. The acceptance of the K.A.P.D. as a sympathising party of the Communist International had for its aim to put the K.A.P.D, on trial and ascertain if it would adopt itself to the requirements of the Communist International.

This period of trial should suffice, and the K.A.P.D. should be required to join the V.K.P.D. within a set period; otherwise the K.A.P.D. is to be excluded from the Communist International as a sympathising party.

The Congress approves of the manner in which the Executive applied the 21 conditions to the French Party. By its actions it has succeeded in getting the labouring masses, which are tending towards Communism, away from the Longuet opportunists and centrists, and to promote their development. The