NLP is happy to present a transcription of four resolutions taken from the Report of the Fourth Congress of the Red International of Labor Unions (RILU) published in July, 1928. The resolutions cover the topics of the trade union movement in the USA, fascism in the trade union movement, the trade union press, and women in the trade union movement. The resolutions were written prior to the creation of the Trade Union Unity League, at the tail-end of the CPUSA’s 1920s policy of “boring-from-within” and at the beginning of the Third Period. The US-specific resolutions thus provide a key window into what the basis and principles for the push for a pivot to an independent, class-conscious and combative US trade unionist center looked like at the time.

The international resolutions provide an incredibly educational and useful analysis of fascism, in particular as fascism and corporatism relate to labor and the workers movement, as well as theses on other key tasks and questions of the international workers movement.

We have taken the liberty of making minor grammatical/spelling changes where there were errors in the original text. In a few places we have maintained the original errors because it was unclear what the original intention of the authors was, and in those places we have written a “[sic]”.

To read or download the resolutions click here.