‘To the Workers of the Union of Jewish Communists (Poale Zion)’ by the Executive Committee of the Communist International from Bulletin of the E.C.C.I. Vol. 1 No. 2. September 20, 1921.
Comrades, The Executive Committee of the Communist International tendered a fraternal welcome to the comrades you delegated to the III International Congress, and with them it investigated very closely the question of the affiliation of your organisations to the Communist International.
The Executive Committee recognizes the fact that you have begun to expel from your ranks the open reformist and centrist elements.
It recognises that, in almost all lands where you have organisations, you are prepared to wage the struggle against the bourgeoisie side by side with the Communist sections in those countries. It furthermore recognises that, due to your common exertions, you have succeeded in establishing the beginnings of a communist movement in Palestine, which upon the ratification of all the conditions stipulated by the Executive Committee, will be fitted to become the national section of the Communist International.
However, there are tendencies with in our movement that are in principle incompatible with those of the Communist International which rather cause us great concern.
The idea that the concentration of the proletarian, semi-proletarian, and Jewish masses in Palestine will afford abasis for the social and national emancipation of the Jewish working class, is utopian and reformistic, and actually counter-revolutionary in its practical consequences, as it is tantamount to the colonisation of Palestine, which, in the last analysis, would merely reinforce the position of British imperialism in Palestine.
The complete liquidation of such ideology is the most important condition which we feel compelled to stipulate.
The Executive Committee of the Communist International is aware of the fact that the strong emigration which is a concrete expression of the peculiar industrial conditions of the Jewish proletariat, is a problem which the national sections of the Communist International must concern themselves with as much as it could be utilized in the struggle for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat and the fulfilment of the concrete vital demands of the workers.
It is the duty of the national sections of the Communist International to establish the appropriate organs for the investigation and solution of this question.
The Executive Committee has decided to establish a Jewish Bureau in the centre of Jewish activity, whose task it will be to carry on Communist propaganda among the Jewish proletarians throughout the world.
The Executive Committee calls upon your Central Bureau to convene an international conference of all the Communist Poale Zion organisations within six months, for the purpose of finally dissolving your international organisation, and merging your organisations within the national sections of the Communist International, within a period of not more than two months, and under the aforementioned conditions.
In conclusion the Executive Committee appeals to all the Jewish Communist workers to battle against the particularistic tendencies prevailing in the Jewish Communist Labour movement, and to realise that the revolutionary Jewish Workers can become an organic part of the Great Communist Workers’ family only within the Communist International.
Long live the Union of the Jewish Communist Workers within the Communist International!
Long live the Third International which alone is capable of leading the struggle for the emancipation of the workers of all nations to final victory!
Executive Committee of the Communist International. August 26th, 1921.
The ECCI published the magazine ‘Communist International’ edited by Zinoviev and Karl Radek from 1919 until 1926 irregularly in German, French, Russian, and English. Unlike, Inprecorr, CI contained long-form articles by the leading figures of the International as well as proceedings, statements, and notices of the Comintern. No complete run of Communist International is available in English. Both were largely published outside of Soviet territory, with Communist International printed in London, to facilitate distribution and both were major contributors to the Communist press in the U.S. Communist International and Inprecorr are an invaluable English-language source on the history of the Communist International and its sections.
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