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Congress trusts that the Executive will do its utmost for the furtherance of an active and class-conscious Communist Party.

4. In Czecho-Slovakia the Executive has followed up with great patience and tact the revolutionary development of a proletariat, which has already given proof of its determination and readiness to take a share in the revolutionary struggle. The Congress approves of the decision of the Executive to accept the Czech Communist Party as a member of the Communist International. The Congress trusts that the Executive will insist that the 21 conditions be unswervingly carried out by the Czech Communist Party, and that a united Communist Party be formed comprising all the nationalities of Czecho-Slovakia with a purely Communist programme under firm Communist leadership and on a centralised basis, and also that the trade unions of that country will be speedily and decisively won over and united internationally in the great proletarian movement.

Finally, the Congress repudiates the objections which have been raised by the open and disguised adversaries of Communism against vigorous international centralisation of the Communist movement. It expresses its deep conviction that all the parties will send their best forces to the Executive, and thereby bring about a still more militant political central leadership, which is necessary for the indissoluble union of the affiliated Communist Parties. The lack of such a leadership made itself felt, for instance, in the unemployment and reparation questions in which the Executive did not act promptly and effectively. The Congress trusts that, with the increased co-operation of the affiliated parties in the organisation of a more efficient apparatus and with the intensified collaboration of the parties in the Executive, the latter will be enabled to fulfil its ever-