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LABOWS VOICE FOR VICTORY

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Vancouver, B.C., Saturday, May 29, 1943

On May 15 the Executive Com-
mittee of the Communist Inter-
national decided to dissolve the
Cl as having outlived its useful-
ness as the guiding center of the
international labor movement.
The official statement, issued
prior to arrival in Moscow of
Joseph E. Davies, special emis-
sary of President Roosevelt, is
carried below in full.

MOSCOW (By Wireless).

In is issue of May 22, Pravda carries the following decision
the presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist

vrnational:

iE historical role of the Communist International, or-
ganized in 1919 as a result of the political collapse of the
)}whelming majority of the old pre-war workers’ parties,
sisted in that it preserved the teachings of Marxism from
| arization and distortion by opportunist elements of the
fr movement. In a number of countries it helped unite

" vanguard of the advanced
ers into genuine ‘workers’
fF es, helped them to mobilize
» nass of the toilers in defense
| €ir economic and political in-
Pits, for a struggle against

ee sm and the war which it had

© preparing, for support of the
/+t Union as a main bulwark
ist fascism.

» © Communist International
Filed in good time the true
® ficance of the “‘anti-Comin-
» Pact’ as a weapon in the
preparations of the Hitler-
> Long prior to the war, the
* aunist International  tire-
™)% exposed the base under-
@ ne activities of the Hitlerites
2 ocreign states, who masked
®2 with outcries about the al-
i interference of the Com-
ist International in the in-
= 21 affairs of these states.

©'T long before the war, it al-
ready became increasingly
that to the extent that the
nal as well as the interna-
Wal situation of individual
Eitries became more compli-
ed, the solution of the prob-

of the labor movement of

individual country through
‘nedium of some international

rt would meet with insuper-
| obstacles.

"te deep difference in the his-
S\al development of each coun-
sof the world, the diverse
acter and even contradiction
"2€ir social orders, the differ-
= in the level and rate of their
B11 and political development
@ finally the difference in the
ce of consciousness and or-
zation of the workers, con-
ened also the various prob-
which face the working
of each individual country.

"2€ entire course of events for
Epast quarter of a century, as

well as the accumulated experi-
ence of the Communist Interna-
tional have convincingly preven
that the organizational form for
uniting the workers, as chosen by
the First Congress of the Com-
munist International, and which
correspond to the needs of the
initial period of the rebirth Of the
labor movement, more and more
outlived itself in proportion “to
the growth of this movement and
the increasing complexity of the
problems in each country, and
that this form even became a hin-
drance to the further strengthen-
ing of national workers’ parties.

HE world war unleashed by
the Hitlerites still further
Sharpened differences in the con-
ditions of various countries,
drawing a deep line of demarca-
tion between countries which be-
came the bearers of Hitlerite ty-
ranny and freedom-loving peoples
united in the mighty anti-Hitler
coalition.

Whereas in countries of the
Hitlerite bloc the basic task of
workers, toilers and all honest
people is to contribute in every
conceivable way towards the @e-
feat of this bloc by undermining
the Hitlerite war machine from
within by helping to overthrow
the governments responsible’ for
the war, in the countries of the
anti-Hitler coalition the sacred
duty of the broadest masses of
the people, and first and foremost
of the progressive workers, is to
support in every way the efforts
of the governments of these
countries for the sake of the
speediest destruction of the Hit-
lerite bloc and to secure friendly
collaboration between nations on
the basis of their equal rights.

At the same time, it must not
be overlooked that individual
countries which adhere to the

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Omintern Dissolution

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anti-Hitler coalition also have
their specifie tasks. Thus, for in-
stance, in countries occupied by
the Hitlerites and which have lost
their state independence, the
basic task of the progressive
workers and the broad masses of
the people is to develop the armed
struggle which is growing into a
national liberation war against
Hitlerite Germany.

At the same time, the war of
liberation of freedom-loving peo-
ples against the Hitlerite tyranny
which set into motion the broad-
est masses of people who are
uniting in the ranks of the anti-
Hitler coalition, irrespective of
party or religion, made it still
more eyident that the national
upsurge and the mobilization of
the masses for the speediest vic-
tory over the enemy can best and
most fruitfully be carried on by
the vanguard of the labor move-
ment of each country within the
framework of its state.

4p Seventh Congress of the
Communist International held
in 1935, taking into consideration
the changes which had come to
pass in the international situation
as well as in the labor movement,
changes which demanded greater
flexibility and independence of its
sections in solying the problems
facing them, already then empha-
sized the need for the Executive
Committee of the Communist In-
ternational in deciding upon all
problems of the labor movement
“to proceed from the concrete
Situation and specific conditions
obtaining in each particular coun-
try; and as a rule avoid direct in-
tervention in internal organiza-
tional matters of the Communist
Parties.”

The Executive Committee of
the Communist International was
Guided by these same considera-
tions when it took note of anG
approved the decision of the Com-
munist Party of the United States
in November, 1940, to leave the
ranks of the Communist Interna-
tional.

Communists, guided by the
teachings of the founders of
Marxism-Leninism, never advo-
cated the preservation of organi-
zational forms which have be-
come obsolete; they always sub-
ordinated the organizational
forms of the labor movement and

its methed of-work to the basic
political interests of the labo
movement as a whole, to the pe-
culiarities of the given historical
conditions and to those problems
which arise directly from these
conditions.

They remember the example of
the great Marx, who w.nited the
progressive workers into the
ranks of the International Work-
ingmen’s Association, and after
the First International fulfilled
its historical task, having laid the
basis for the development of
workers’ parties in the countries
of Europe and America, Marx as
a result of the growing need to
create national workers’ mass

parties, brought about the dissolu-
tion of the First International in-
asmuch as this form of organiza-
tion no longer corresponded to
this need.

ROCEEDING from the aboye-
stated considerations and
taking into account the growth
and political maturity of the
Communist parties and their lead-
ing cadres in individual coun-
tries ,and also in view of the fact
that during the present war a
number of sections raised the
question of the dissolution of the
Communist International as a
guiding center of the interna-
tional labor movément, the Pre-
simium of the Executive Commit-
tee of the Communist Interna~
tional, unable owing to condi-
tions of world war to convene a
congress of the Communist In-
ternational, permits itself to sub-
mit for approval by sections of
the Communist International the
following proposal:

To dissolve the Communist In-
ternational as a guiding center of
the international labor movement,
releasing the sections of the
Communist International from
the obligation ensuing from the
constitution and decisions of con-
gresses of the Communist Inter-
national

The Presidium of the CGom-
munist International calls upon
all adherents of the Communist
International to concentrate their
forces on all-round support and
active participation in the libera-
tion war of the peoples and states
of the anti-Hitler coalition in
order to hasten the destruction
of the mortal enemy of the work
ing people—German fascism and
its allies and vassals.

Signed by members of the Pre-
sidium of the Executive Commit-
tee of the Communist Interna-
tional: Gottwald, Dimitrov, Zhda-
nov, Kolaroy, Koplenig, Kuusinen,
Manuilsy, Marty, Pieck, Thorez,
Florin, Ercoli.

This resolution is endorsed by
representatives of the following
parties: Bianco (italy), Dolores
Ibarruri (Spain), Lehtinen (Fin-
land), Pauker (Rumania), Rakosi
(Hungary).

May 15, 1943.

victory is achieved.

Browder Greets Move

Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist
Party of the USA, issued the following statement on dis-
solution of the Communist International:

strength, as it has in the past period, for the complete unity
of the United Nations, for international labor unity, and
for national unity with our country, to win the uncon-
ditional surrender of the Hitler regime and its allies,
Japan and Italy, and an ordered and peaceful world when

The proposal of dis-
solution of the Commun-

ist International as made
by the presiding com-
mittee of that organiza-
tion does not affect or-
ganizationally the status
of the Communist Party
of the USA, because
since 1940 the CP of the
USA has maintained no
affiliation outside the
borders of our country.
It is my opinion, how-
ever, that the CP of the
USA will express its
agreement with the pro-
posal and its motivation,
since its own experience
has already pointed in
the same direction.

The Communist Party
of the USA will continue
to fight with all its