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3) Activity of all the members of the Party, their direct participation in the work of the organization.

4) The basis of the Party organization, its "fortresses," are the factory nuclei.

5) The Communist Party, through Communist fractions in non-Party workers' and peasants' organizations, must link up closely with the masses of the workers and peasants and take an active part in all their struggles against their exploiters and oppressors and lead the struggles through the Communist nuclei and Communist fractions.

6) Democratic centralism in the Party and in the Communist International.

7) Iron discipline for the proletarian Party.

To carry out these fundamental organizational principles of Leninism, the Sections of the Communist International have enormous work to do. With regard to the Communist Parties of Western Europe and America, it may be said today what Lenin wrote in 1900 in No. 1. of the Social Democratic newspaper "Iskra." He wrote:

"The question of organization is one of our most painful questions. In this respect we have lagged behind considerably from the old workers in the Russian revolutionary movement. We must frankly confess this defect. We must train men and women who will devote to the revolution, not merely their spare evenings, but the whole of their lives. We must build up an organization so large as to enable us to introduce division of labor in the various spheres of our work."