LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
3) Activity of all the members of the Party, 
their direct participation in the work of the organ- 
ization. 
4) The basis of the Party organization, its “fort- 
resses,” are the factory nuclei. 
5) The Communist Party, through Communist 
fractions in non-Party workers’ and peasants’ organ- 
izations, must link up closely with the masses of the 
~orkers and peasants and take an active part in all 
their struggles against their exploiters and oppres- 
sors 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 Commu- 
nist 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.” 
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