COMMUNISTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 September 1924, Page 7

COMMUNISTS.

INSTRUCTIONS FROM MOSCOW. The Communist / International has instructed the affiliated sections to pay more attention to the Co-operative Movement. At the recent conference of Communist Co-operators, held at Moscow, it was stated, as reported in the' Communist organ International Press Correspondence on July 10, that: r “The Co-operatives, can not only serve as . tribunes for revolutionary propaganda among the masses of proletarian housewives and the politically indifferent among the broad strata of the petty bourgeoisie, but they also have ,the possibility to render moral and material support to all trade union find proletarian. campaigns and to act theiriselves as class organs by setting up strike funds and acting as suppliers of provisions for the fighting working class. • “As regards illegal work, there are many possibilities offered within the Co-operative organisations, while Cooperative work is admirably suited for the important task of the proletarian united front from below, for the revolutionising and neutralising of the masses.”

Resblutions were passed “that a Cooperative section must; he Set up in the party central of every*" country, and that, in the political campaigns, as well as in. the press, the Co-opera-tive, work must form the essential part”; that. “Co-operative courses must be arranged in the various countries for the education of trained Marxist functionaries, etc.” “There is scarcely any other organisation,” says International Press Correspondence, “which is so highly adapted for the realisation of the slogan; ‘lnto the masses’ as the Cooperatives.” • .•• , The Conference has issued a, manifesto ; the the Co-operators explaining the Communist policy, and concluding by calling upon working men and women to “join the Co-operatives and make them* a weapon of the class war,” and to “follow the slogans of the Communist International and the Red Trade'Union International in the fight to overthrow capitalism!”