Report of the Executive Committee of the Communist International/Resolution on the Report of the Executive Committee

by Grigory Zinoviev

RESOLUTION ON THE REPORT OF THE
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

The Congress having favourably considered the report of the Executive Committee hereby sets forth that the policy and activities of the Executive during the past year have been carried out in accordance with the resolutions of the Second Congress. The Congress approves in particular of the application of the 21 conditions in the different countries, laid down by the Second Congress, and sanctions the work of the Executive with regard to the formation of large Communist mass-parties and the relentless struggle against the opportunist tendencies which manifested themselves in various parties.

1. In Italy the attitude of leaders around Serati immediately after the Second World Congress showed that he did not take the resolutions of the World Congress and the Communist International seriously. The role played by these leaders during the September struggle, its conduct in Livorno, and still more its policy since that time, have clearly proved that Serati and his colleagues only wish to use Communism as a shield for their opportunist policy. The split was inevitable under such conditions. The Congress declares that the Executive has acted with firmness and determination in this very important situation. It sanctions the resolution of the Executive Committee which at the time recognised the Communist Party of Italy to be the only Communist section of that country.

The Communists having left the Livorno Congress, the latter adopted the following resolution by Bentivoglio:

"The Congress reaffirming its adherence to the Third International hereby refers the entire conflict to the coming Congress, and pledges itself in advance to abide by and execute its resolution."

The Third Congress of the Communist International declares that this decision of the Serati group has been forced upon them by the revolutionary workers. The Congress trusts that these same revolutionary elements of the working class are going to see to it that the decisions of the Third World Congress be actually carried out.

In reply to the appeal of the Livorno Congress the Third World Congress hereby ultimately declares as follows:

"The Socialist Party of Italy cannot remain within the ranks of the Communist International so long as the participants of the reformists-conference at Reggio-Emilia and their supporters have not been expelled from the party.

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 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-increasing tasks on a still larger scale than it has done hitherto.

For the delegations:
(Signed)	Communist Party of Italy, Terracini.
	Communist Party of Bulgaria, Kolaroff.
	Communist Party of Germany, Thalheimer, Frolich.
	Communist Party of Norway, Schafts.
	Communist Party of Czecho-Slovakia (German Section), Kreibich.
	Communist Party of Hungary, Szanto.
	Communist Party of Austria, Frey.
	Communist Party of Switzerland, Rosa Grimm.
	Communist Party of Rumania, A. Badulescu.
	Communist Party of Poland, A. Michalek.
	For the International of Youth, Willy Munzenberg.