XIII. PROPAGANDA AND PRESS

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REPORT TO THE THIRD I1OPR
CONGREbS OF THE SOVIET UNION,
BY H. STASSOVA. ;Congress
held, Feb. 15019, 1931)
XIII. PROPAGANDA AND PRESS
We must say that in respect to the agitational
forms and methods of our organisation we have good
achievements, but we cannot say this in relation to
propaganda. In relation to propaganda work we are
still very weak.
The only organisation which stands firmly on its
feet in this respect - is Germany. At the present time
following it comes France. All the other organisations,
not excluding our best organisations, Chinese and Ameri-
can, are as yet unable to properly place the propaganda
work. And here the propagandist work we have to sub-
stitute with our press. The press is divided into
periodic and unperiodic.
In relation to the periodic press on January 1,
1931, there were issued abroad 56 journals in 19 languages,
namely, German, Spanish, Jewish, Italian, French, Bul-
garian, Chinese, Danish, Polish, Greek, Lettish, Russian,
Portuguese, Ukrainian, Rumanian, Czech, English, Hebrew
and Arabic.
The number of publications is growing from year to
year. In this respect one can say that the Executive
Committee and its organisations can record certain
achievements.
The Executive Committee has a periodic organ - a
journal in the German language which is called Moir
Zeitschrift
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Zeitschrift which means, MOPR's Journal.
Due to a number of conditions we consider that it
will be advisable that our local organisations should
publish their organs in their localities and that we
should direct them, instead of concentrating all this
matter in our hands.
Then we have published a number of pamphlets re-
garding the revolutionary movement. During the recent
times we started the publication of the memories of the
revolutionists. So for instance we have published the
Memories of Haywood, and the Memories of Piatnitzky and
Sha ovalov.
I would also indicate that in the Executive Commit-
tee we are occupied at the present time with working
out the publication of a Block-Note, where there would
be brought out an historic survey about the origin of
every individual section and its work, according to the
type of our Block-Note in the U.S.S.R.
In relation to the non-periodic publications I
would like to point out among others to the following:
We decided that it is necessary to follow the example
of the Tsarist times, and to publish a pamphlet, How
to Act When Arrested and When Cross-Examined. It is
true, that a whole number of our sections have already
a pamphlet on how a proletarian must defend himself
before the court, but this is not the thing, which in
its time was our pamphlet - How to Conduct Yourself
under Cross-Examination.
In this pamphlet must be clearly expressed that by
truthful
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tr.thful or invented story a comrade will not achieve,
anything, will not relieve the situation for himself,
but instead can throw into jail many people. This is
particularly important at the present time when the
number of arrests is on the increase. For arrests take
place after every strike, after demonstrations of the
unemployed, after peasant uprisings, etc.
Here we have to deal with mass arrests, and it is
necessary to achieve the carrying out of our old line -
not to give any statements in the court or at the cross-
examination.
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