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world. This is not a mere struggle of factions within the party, but the struggle of the working class for its liberation is taking place in the German party due to the split at Halle. The German working class has at last reached the high road. We feel convinced that the German working class will now free itself from its last intellectual fetters, which prevented it from moving forward. The working class is pulling itself together, reforming its ranks, and waking ready for the final battle. The best part of the German working class has pointed out the way to the workers of other countries. The latter will give their hearty thanks to the German worker.
The sally of the Communist International in the West has been crowned with success. The contest between the representatives of Communism and the representatives of reformism and semi-reformism has ended in our favour. The last Mohicans of opportunism, who pretended to follow Marx, have been utterly crushed in this fight of ideas. The appearance of the Communist International on the field was, in the words of several comrades, like a bombshell exploding under the very nose of the bourgeoisie of Europe.
The barking of the bourgeois lap-dogs against the Communist International continues in the whole of the European bourgeois reactionary and white guard social democratic press. Let them bark! The Communist International will go on its way, and rally the working class of the whole world to its colours.
Petrograd, Smolny, 13th November, 1920.
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