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Bulletin of the IV World Congress of the Communist International BULLETINWORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE THEI V COHGRESS O F THE CDWIWIUM1ST )F Twenty-Eighth Session. December 1, 1922. 1 p. ^ Chairman: Comrade Kolaroff. Contents: Report of the French Commission-Comrade Trotzfty. Chairman Kolaroff. I declare the apathetic. These are the most striking Lgion open. Comrade Trotzky has the and most evident and indisputablp S vmD° report tor the French Commission. floor to toms of this crisis. 1 z k y. We have before us the most There are Tr others. Factional strife rules and important question, that of the difficult Party. These factonal conflicts, French Party. our sharp and often personal polemics French Communist Party is passing The further exceptional symptoms however. a very severe crisis. And stran- Wnongh have not all the same value for the enough this rrisis of the gely Party development of our French Party. coincides with the crisis of the French The decline in our membership is not bourgeoisie and its government. I a say great danger if it is only temporary because as a strangely, general rule it and represents nothing more that cisely the crisis in the bourgeois Party gathered into its rank in the first creates ism which a favourable period, certain elements which do not situation for the development of the re- belong to us by their mentality and volutionary party. The revolutionary their point of view, and that they are s usually thrive upon disruption of being eliminated to stabilise the unity ourgeois society. and the determination of the. Party. Even 1 conclude from the coincidence of the diminished circulation of our press Bese two crises that the French Party is not a great danger. It may be only a t yet achieved this autonomy of temporary feature caused by" the change anisation and action, this absolute in the political situation. pendence from capitalist society ne- It as a well recognised fact in the r.V to profit freely and largely by history of our parties that their line c\ crisis in tli is society. I will come develoment is not direct, that there is jackf» to this later in more detailed an inevitable ebb and flow, that during sshion. the flourishing period the Party must What is the cause of this crisis, the develop greater action among the ma pence of which no one denies? Some while during the slump, it may be< J Pl'j mention the stagnation and even self-centered and exclusive in order to linp of its , ,.., ,T our membership. The develop organisation, to define " of our newspapers and publi- ideas and prepare for the future con 1 eatimi »* especially most significant of the H Humanite" The tact is th finished. Our organisations arc of factions and the factional strife. What V I M!\ OF ll!K IV CONGRESS OF THE COMMUN1 :i Who i meet oi power i, mi '1 ,[ Itself. < v i ion 11 to omplain then we V("' were « ronn i" / cln isiflcation in f t.lio Into ; ""''at- w.. may a he dl isidenta "" ti, l rC who jmpl.N bsurd - l||; feet ., You I (\ press tins split Lctated by an " oul i,i" thai during the. la t year there n.ii the ' v,li Unto, , ol the situation, I will and by internal needs "i "'„ out, Hi, i |, ( '" BflWj standing tvveen the well, $i whom wo all know Party. tin al and l-Ymch Party, i. ,-. life p Jf: t[on '" ;. who in mi ai But the whole of the i» ,. a t ,! v '•' jn l ' 1 '' i^iorih chain 1 by on il never end." In the be a connected of actions iV"!- KHi'oull gro one, W fje actioi final the 1 , wrote "What to the Jnh conquest t Sj 11 j',',1 ti "',, make our . to French Party the proletariat. Ul ? not acci Bi we are. What hair power by \\> necessity Vv*tand the of the United polemists! Vnd We agree that the present e What miserable ( - grounii omj-ade . M ai _£uuovnyZinovie\ ' f. but,lull, [$ who are not final; we do not ol \ pity those real heroes believe "', !'" wo must tb\i f!' the nch Come '' lV [n : to discuss '<) , i _ ±u_ ., us' is necessary the correctne? fefcei the ! Proposed by argument that' the I believe Si? - view. this affirmation. that ' is taking rather a gloomy there wS andor the lorn, H>P l "° H Mioial, of the the Tefi *<* fall exter- always be a classification by iw % 9se phrases present only an tend! was compelling the «* but French : the and. that when the finallmal fcTont, , p( [on of tho situation in revolutionaryrevolutk "re no comes, the to \\ \ Byzantians, hair action great majority party are we of tl is a members of every faction will iters, miserable polemists? This find them to selves united. But it is - which demands an answer. unjust to to the ieu. responsible French Party which is made stion furthermore we ask who is up of var- personal? ious tendencies and does not - internal for the polemics, general and exist out' «r +m« „ mM1 t. h ic i Lakftn use ol this argument,aw it is our side of these tendencies to jnaking the initiative j„ the The comrades who belong to the same declare that polem Lishment lor our sms. We are punished In studying Hip , as Frossard, point to the Left this grouping is artificial. There must 5 r, n mp be our enemy take over our false for importaut reason for the Shaving following mfri as responsible for these polemics, and an existence of g Lalas make them more definite and towards the • factious. But this factional these conflicting factions. French Partt I i regime of their looked ^ to own political : T ' tliem ad van- a speech ; by comrades The final grouping, some people mm I delivered in June :;r.i is often denounced say following 1921, Ho& The appeared in the meeting ot the who themselves belong to the factions can take place only in action. But it was Enlarged Executive on that "femps". the French question; a year and consider this regime as a purely through action the International has an i a half not yet certain that this "It is nu- ago. I must acknowledge artifical manifestation, in no way based attempted for a year and a half to that I was tating docility will suffice to appease struck by the upon ideas and which does not serve to produce the regrouping in the French; fact that we were still % anger of Moscow; not every one can marking time. our political purposes. Allow- me to read Party, and the International propose two practice in letter and spirit the policy I will recall only the this passage from an article by Daniel ways to achieve this. It was the action essential p tssages of the International which always varies oi this speech: Renoult, whin appeared in the "Huma- in and through the Trade Unions and according to the interests of the Soviet „We do not see in our nite" of September: "As my friend Duret the United Front. press, in our tjovemment and the circumstances which speeches any signs of the severance has said, it is only in and through action To conduct an action, one must have the leaders of this government must face between the Communist Party and that a serious and just classification may a clear idea of it. and be supported by in order to conceal as far as possible whole bourgeois society. It may happen be made; no one "ever answered these the majority of the Party. Every time the failure of pure Communism". that the workers will tell us: "What words"'. we proposed the regrouping of the Party The bourgeoisie has not invented this you doing there? Why do you not speak On the one hand we see the bitter in some action, then? always arose immed- formula. They have borrowed it from the Communist language? Yon are only struggle of the factions, and on. the other iate obstacles to this action. Some people and some member of a faction in our Party vague shadows, hardlv clearer than the that the representatives of the two facti- would not agree to the methodical the f have condemned and used it against Longuet shadows, and fundament illy the that these groupings are purely organised action of the Party in ons affirm e organisations whole Party. same". I added: ..We must recognise and artificial ane that is only in some future most important and largest & few appreciate this further fact that the nor the United Front. days' ago, Frossard, who also action th«.t we may establish the just of France, - that one opposed the United Front, came to the attitude of the Party towards the It has become a platitude - classification ol the tendencies within the twormists except througn to propose an action in accord- calists is altogether false' . Party. I do not think that this analysis cannot develop any action action. J^e with theiiC J111 I said further: common L iprinciples of the United is correct. the United Front, by some Pfft "°nt. tell the Freneh Com- one does not pos- in the answer " of the dissidents, tically we must First of all one should ask how it is in any country where you majonq tlle term inology know munist Party: "We do not ask deny the ideo- sess the confidence of the great which we Thai those comrades who »Trii revolutionary a ;tion the proletar id- Jell, which we have read so many to undertake any logical and political form of these factions of the working class, where ln knowing whether the sitaatioa political th- e Party and without still divided into various m ?£ Press of our belong themselves to one of the three is , what we do mem oei llas is favourable or not.
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