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of our German comrades (as well as the English, French, Italian and American), who are confronted with the problem of how to carry on revolutionary work inside the reactionary trade unions, to consider this fact seriously.[1]
In many countries, and particularly in the most advanced, the bourgeoisie is undoubtedly sending, and will continue to send, agents-provocateurs into the Communist Party. One method of struggle against this peril is a skilful co-ordination of legal and illegal work.
- ↑ Malinovsky was a prisoner of war in Germany. When he returned to Soviet Russia, he was instantly arrested, tried and shot by our working men. The Mensheviks attacked us acrimoniously for our mistakes in making an agent-provocateur a member of the Central Committee of our party. But when, under Kerensky, we demanded the arrest of Rodzianko, the Speaker of the Duma, in order to try him for his having known, even before the war, that Malinovsky was an agent-provocateur, and for his failure to inform the Labor group in the Duma and the workers of this fact, the Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries who were in Kerensky's cabinet did not support our demand, Rodzianko remained at large, and then went off freely to Denikin.
