n whose party never before belonged to the
International and whose presence compelled the absence of the
official Italian Socialist Party. America was represented by
Gompers, representing associations which never had anything to do
with the Socialists....

"As against the International of traitors and
counter-revolutionaries, organizing themselves for the purpose of
forming leagues against the proletarian revolutions the world over,
the Communists of all countries must rapidly close their ranks
around the third revolutionary International--already, in fact,
existing.

"This Third International has nothing in common with the avowed
Socialist Imperialists, or with the pseudo-revolutionary
Socialists, who in reality support the former when they refuse to
break with them, and who do not recoil against participation in the
conferences of falsely called Socialists. The Russian Communist
Bolshevik Party refuses to take part in these conferences, which
abuse the name of Socialism. It invites all those who desire that
the Third Revolutionary International shall live to take the same
line; the task of this Third International being to hasten the
conquest of power by the working class.

"The Communist parties of Finland, Esthonia, Lithuania, of White
Russia, the Ukraine, Poland, and Holland are at one with the
Russian Communist Party.

"The latter also regards as its associates the Spartacus group in
Germany, the Communist Party of German Austria and other
revolutionary proletarian elements of the countries in the old
Austro-Hungarian Empire; the Left Social Democrats of Sweden, the
Revolutionary Social Democracy of Switzerland and Italy, the
followers of Maclean in England, of Debs in America, of Loriot in
France. In their persons the Third International, which is at the
head of the World Revolution, already exists.

"At the present moment when the Socialist Imperialists of the
Entente who formerly hurled the most violent accusations against
Scheidemann, are about to unite with him and to break the power of
Socialism in all countries, the Communist Party considers that
unity for the World Revolution is an indispensable condition for
its success.

"Its most dangerous enemy now is the Yellow International of the
Socialist traitors--