The most important question at present is the formation of a united proletarian fighting front for the defence of the eight-hour day, for ensuring sufficient food for the workers, for workers' control of production, and to oppose the organisation of German fascism by the formation of the Arbeiter Wehr. In obedience to the demands of the hour, the Fourth Congress of the Comintern and the Second World Congress of the Red Trade Union International will address an open letter to the Second and Two-and-a-half Internationals, as well as to the parties and trade unions adhering to them, inviting them to participate in common action for the above-mentioned demands.
Go on with your work, persistently and energetically. The Factory Council movement must be the rallying ground for the defensive struggle of the workers. It must conduct this defensive struggle on the widest possible basis. If you succeed in the teeth of resistance to establish a united front, you will have created the most important condition for the defensive struggle, nay, even for the transition to the offensive.
We, the representatives of the revolutionary workers of the whole world, gathered here in Moscow, wish success to your work and send you our revolutionary fraternal greetings."
The Fourth World Congress of the
Communist International.
The Second World Congress of the
Red Trade Union International.
Moscow, Nov., 1922.
Resolution on E.C. Report
"The Fourth World Congress of the Communist International wholly approves the political work of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, which, during the fifteen months of activity, has carried out the resolutions of the Third World Congress, and have applied them correctly in accordance with the special political conditions in each country.
The Fourth Congress approves especially the policy of the United Front as it has been formulated by the Executive Committee in its thesis of December, 1921, and in other documents of the Executive Committee relating to this question.
The Fourth Congress of the Communist International approves the attitude of the Executive Committee on the crisis in the French Communist Party, on the working-class movement of Italy, on the Communist Party of Norway, on the Communist Party of Czecho-Slovakia. Questions of practical
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