I HAVE THE HONOR TO FORWARD HEREWITH THE TRANSLATION OF A RESOLUTION OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL OUTLINING THE METHODS OF ORGANIZATION AND WORK OF COMMUNIST GERM-CELLS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES

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LLaATION OF THS
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The Honorable,
!h+e 3earetary of :Mate,
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I have the honor to forward b era with tho trans..
li t inn O 4 r W,)lQtjj Qt the x .eut ive Qnt: aittee of tho,
if 3osan ist Triternat lost aa-1 oath ir': irl, the methods of or$mn.
isat iozi and work o 4A* 1 -rmnin ist 33orm-oo 11s airs tore iga
countries, Tt 3 'r ua wiain original from wh iob the mix su.
14t low walls ma 4a w seized by the L:,aty ian r o 1 Lt ioal
police t a rso,:ant r -id upon or, 111.og&1 Qomaantat sramn.
isation operating in t tg+ . 'fir rrit lwt lone of oarte-tn
Other dAc rnent# 66 1s*4 at t h stasis t tue a*Z'ai now ba jug >? #)A*
awnd will be forwarded l4ter,
I hive the honor to b~i,
Your obedient servant,
?~noloeur~e;
1. "Tra nsl4lon of liesolut iasgt as started."
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-.oloaure 1o. / to desnatelh ifo.
ii i 'LJT i W Ird aX *,i~t}f1' 1V C~ t~ I ' , 'j, T143. COMMUNIST
IbIT, P. -2 I: i G C 1 C ); G IZ T I, 3 +' G i ..C: LL 3
Tit,? I DIV iDU1.L R ze .I 6MWI M .
Party organisation must be adapted to oen-
ditions and purpose of its work. During the Reformist
po l isy of the Social>:Demoor at io Party which by moans
of the ballet box triad to gain influenoe upon the
bourgeois state,, it was quite natural that principal
was paid to the organ isat ion of the voters. It was
neoeasary, therefore, to base the organisation on
election district,* irid doaloiles. This organisation
structure was also taken over by the Communist parties
from the Social-;,amoorat io Party. iowever, this is
oontrsdtetory not only to the ultimate aims of the
Communist Party, but also to its proximate twits. The
ultimate aim of our Party is to overthrow the supremacy
of the bourgeoisie, to conquer the bourgedria, the
se isure of political power by the labor classes, and the
inauguration of aommu ism. The proximate tasks are
to conquer the majority of the labor alasre* by mows
of active part io ipat ion in the every-day struggle of
the labor masse a, and by guiding such struggle. This
can be achieved only by closest contaot of our Party
organisations with the labor macsee at the various
works and establishments, an these grounds already
the Third Congress of the Communist International re-
solved that the gazi&-oells at the veu ious individual
establishments should oonst itato the formation of the
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Communist Party. "brewer, in the majority of
sections of the Comp,^unist Intsrnutional, this re..
solution has not yet been carried into effeatj in
many sections the question of or iz ing germ-cells
at the and ividaal establishments, h ;A not yet even
been broached. In the mear_tims, the experience of
the German revolution (towards the end of the year
1983) has clearly shown that without germ..eslls at the
individual establishments and without closest oontaot
with the labor masses - the latter cannot be drawn into
the struggle, nor guided, that their moods rind frame
of mind cannot be ganged correctly, that the right
moment cannot be seized and v iotory oter the bourgeoisie
moused.
JPandarnental Principles of Local `Wr aanis&tiams.
To The perm,-Dells at the Individual teblishmsnts
Oonstitute the Foundation of Part Organisation,
1. All Comwuniats employed at a given establishment
must belong to the gsrm-rill of that establishment*
Note: At establishments where there are
only one or two Party members, the latter shall
belong to the nearest germ-call of any other
establishment which germ~.oell shall attend to
the work of 1 other establishments in the
vicinity that have no germ-cells of their
own.
#. Communists who are not ampl-yed at works and
factories, shops, stores, sta., (honsakeopers, dome at tc
servants, caretakers, janitors, eta,,) shall form germ-
calls by the streets where they lava (on the pe'ineiple
of domicile).
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Note: All members of germ-sells of
estabTIeehmmante who rc std{a in 3ther re ions
are bound to register themselves at the bureau
of the germ-cell of the district in which they
reside. ?embers of party germ,--cells of other
regions, who have been attached by the 3 istr iat
bare" to a street genus-cell, shall in the latter
have no deoiaivs vote is matters which are being
decided in the germ-cell of the given establishment
(such as questions of pr incisle, eleationa of
Party delegates, etc,),
3. Persons out of etrrployrnent shrill remain members
of the germ-cell of the establishment at which they
were employed previouoiy. ?'n the ease of protracted
unemployment they may, with the consent of the re-
glenal committee, be strn.ak off the lists of the
original germ-oaall, and transferred to some of the
germ-sells of the district where they are resident.
4. Tn small industrial centers, towns and vil-
lages, or estate, homogeneous germ-cells shall be
established, if possible, around the establishment
or the estate.
6. The germ-call of the a at bliehrnent and the
germ-cell of the street shall elect their bureau
or presidium to ooneist of three members, or of five
ut the moot. r lootions to tea a plane rat general
meetings of the gerrn-ce 1l. The 1vreaau or 're-
l id ium of the germ-*ell shall distribute the work
among their members. ~'ooor? in to the also of the
germ-cell, the bureau or Presidium shall ar.point
a aaperaLal comrades for atter ing to, and eoresd ing,
literature, for ma raging propaganda, on m aomracle for
oondaot ing the work at the works nand factories com-
mittees, one for trade union wor'c, one to keep in touch
with the germ.-sell of youth% one for managing the
work swing among women, and so forth.
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6. "arty members who are members of 8,3rm-00118
ats 8,1.11 - thou mesnbsarssship fees to
of oetab1i Mrnox ,
the r,,ent toned gerr -sell +, ::art 1 members bel.)ngi g
to street gars -Dells, er li pay their membership fees
to tha lattsr.
7. In large towns where them are mazy a etabl iBh-
ment germ-stalls and street germ-calks, they shall be
formed into districts* tetrlcts shall be for`r:ed into
rag tows. . 11 rag lone Of e. large town shall m&&kd up
the town organization. The districts shall be G*tab-
liahr-d by the regiol 1 co,s+mittee, (This is evidently
the meaning, the -inssiWA test being somewhat scutilSted
note of rrazislator ). In establi.5hifg them the regional
committee should take sure to form theme as much as
possible, around any larger establissshments. In middle-
sited towns too districts should be est4b1 issshed which
would embrace establishment as well as street germ-cells.
These districts shall bo formed into a town org nt, at ton.
In small towns and in the village, the germ"slls shall
be formed into local groups. Town organizations in
middle-sized towns ane local organisations in small
towns and villages shall be formed into sub-rag louse
sate ; in saooordssnoe with dSstricstooomnnitteses
-sy w,~ ss with n g a s s a it; , general
(of local groups) shall call regular
sn )ot ings of ull ostdb1 ishmant and street germ-
cell members of their district*
8. At the head of the district and the local
groups shall stand a bureau consist ing of 3 to b
members, which is to be elected at a general meeting
of all germ-sell members of the iTen district or
local group, or &.t delegate meetings, in asscordanoe
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with local pond it ions, (for instance, if the or.
Cwiizution is not 1e4. u11aZod ). The aeeret ?y of the
bureaa of the district anti the local group shall
be confirmed by the snh-re tons.l committee (uvesd
committee)* at the head of the region and sub-
region shall be r innul and dab-regional oemmitteaa
which aba11 b?y elected at regional and sub-regional
conference a,
9. Est district aid group delegate meetings, as
w:M as at r 3,d Tonal + rr a aub-regional co;nferanoee,
the germ-oallu roust be represonted in proportion with
the number of their members, but in each u w *y that
the majority should be in the aide of the members of
?atablishro.at t;err,..ce;1s. The uorme of representation
for eaob 3erx-oell ehall be astablisheu by the regional
or sw.b-.regional oommitt(~e (uyex4 committee).
In such organisations where an sac )ant of their
non-legalized ez iatence it is irnpoasible to have
many reprecontatiree at the regional or aab-regional
canferanoea, it shall o per issibie that fierce-oelle
'lent delegates d Tract, and diatrLots rand ,reupa
at me t ings of delegates.
10. Town 0ourmittees (in largo towzas) ehall be
elaote i at to vi. oo:* fererloeu which ~wa to ooniaiat of
delegutae of all rtionns, to Rio oleotod at regional
con ronca , i. ,rup t lon to the nu bor of wembar a
in, the ;iron a Y,ioa.
11. In order to give greater iniluenoe to the
germ-oe le of aart4bliahmente, is the district bureau
:.4s well as the ra,ional committee, the m&Jority of the
members should be members of establishment germ-Mello.
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"art of the town committee must consist of laborers
from estaalisr,aents.
12. In conditions of nen-1!i^;tl work, the higher
Party omens shall in e7oeptional oases (in ease the
oommittae has been uarreated, eto.) halve the right to
epnoint a w -Wmbera of the committer, on the oondition
that at the first opportanity a e~tL7,j of delegates
or a eonferonce is aall+tr', which will oonf irm the ap-
pointed oo.amittee or of lact Mother o,''re, Thes* ma&nbers
if the oosamitteo ':rho hav,) asoap:d arrest shall have
the right of oooptat.iun thto the committee of new
*ae-ibere, pondLag tho eor?v:)kinG of a conferenee, with
the oo:naent ena the ap roval 'if the higher ?aarty
organ a. The ntimber of rie ibere of the oommitte~' shall
in conditions of non-la-al ex iatonee be as small an
noeeible.
Tasks of zrm-0911 a at ''stab 1 i stirnen te,
The center of grsav ity of political organizution
work of the 'part r Hunt be shifted to the germ-cell at
the individual a st ab l ishraont. By uiu ing the every-
day atra gle of t , 1:4bor maaaee for their every.-day
interests, the girrad-celle of the sstabliaahuents mast
lead the mraiseu in thoir eti-ae,,,le for diata.torship
of the proletariat. ThL.t It why the lomirxnist germ,
call :rust in a3 time disouss and f:is its attitude
towards overt' political and economic question that
Interests the laaor uaasses, aaud in every oornfliot
that might arias at the given establishment. The
arm-ooll ruuat show the laborers the way of a re-
volutionary solution of the problem, and, being
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aomposnd of a:zor cla -a.~=taaious and active elements
of the labor olas,.~as, t4:ce the waanacgeruent of tll- l
etraggla into its h:andb.
Apctirt from goneral irty aims, the tasks of
the germ-oe11s 4t the eatubliahmente ewe the fol.
lowing:
1. To carry onn Core ^,trr1t .t u' itat ioa :-nd moo..
peganaa among the non-prix ty labor masses, to do
sy eto?atio work in the m;4t,ter of draawi .g Individual
laborers into the rue x. " the Co?^rauniut Party, to
circulate politioaai liter~,aur ut the oeta:?,11sh:ent?
to throw light on sundry ayae r~ t ion w in the fore-
ground of interast:.at th-a eatablishm:atrt? also to
issae a small upeoial nowep ajar at tho a;iven factory,
al
to oarry on o:zltorul ar:d t~ducat lot}/ work among the
laborers of the given ust