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  ^[74] The Anglo-Soviet, or Anglo-Russian, Unity Committee (the Joint Consultative Committee of the trade-union movements of Great Britain and the U.S.S.R.) was set up on the initiative of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions at an Anglo-Soviet trade-union conference in London, April 6-8, 1925. The committee consisted of the chairmen and secretaries of the A.U.C.C.T.U. and of the General Council of the British Trades Union Congress and another three members from each of these organisations. The committee ceased to exist in the autumn of 1927 owing to the treacherous policy of the reactionary leaders of the British trade unions. (Also see J. V. Stalin, Works, F.L.P.H., Moscow, 1954, Vol. 8, pp. 205-14.  [Transcriber's Note: See Stalin's 'The Anglo-Russian Committee". -- DJR])    [p. 347]

  ^[75] The joint plenum of the Central Committee and the Central Control Commission, C.P.S.U.(B.) was held July 14-23, 1926. It discussed a communication of the Political Bureau on its decisions in connection with the British general strike and the events in Poland and China, and reports on the results of the elections to the Soviets, on the case of Lashevich and others, and on Party unity, housing development, and the grain procurement campaign. At the plenum J. V. Stalin spoke on the Political Bureau's communication concerning the decisions taken by it in connection with the events in Britain, Poland and China, on the report of the Presidium of the C.C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.) on the case of Lashevich and others, on Party unity and on other questions. The plenum approved the activities of the Political Bureau of the C.C. and of the C.P.S.U.(B.) delegation in the E.C.C.I. on the international question, and adopted a number of decisions on important questions of state and economic affairs, inner-Party life and the conditions of the workers. The plenum expelled Zinoviev from the Political Bureau of the C.C. (For the resolutions of the plenum, see Resolutions and Decisions of C.P.S.U. Congresses, Conferences and Central Committee Plenums, Part II, 1953, pp. 148-69.)    [p. 347]

  ^[76] This refers to the Amsterdam Trade Union International, founded in July 1919 at an international congress in Amsterdam. It included the

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reformist trade unions of the majority of the West-European countries and the American Federation of Labour. The Amsterdam International pursued a reformist policy, openly collaborated with the bourgeoisie in the International Labour Office and various commissions of the League of Nations, opposed a united front in the labour movement, and adopted a hostile attitude towards the Soviet Union, as a result of which its influence in the labour movement gradually declined. During the Second World War the Amsterdam International practically ceased to function, and, in December 1945, in connection with the foundation of the World Federation of Trade Unions, it was liquidated.    [p. 349]

  ^[77] Sassenbach and Oudegeest were secretaries of the reformist Amsterdam Trade Union International and leaders of its Right wing.    [p. 349]

  ^[78] See V. I. Lenin, The Petrograd City Conference of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.). April 14-22 (April 27-May 5), 1917. 2. Concluding Remarks in the Debate Concerning the Report on the Present Situation. April 14 (27).    [p. 350]

  ^[79] See V. I. Lenin, Seventh (April) All-Russian Conference of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.). April 24-29 (May 7-12), 1917. 3. Speech Winding Up the Debate on the Report on the Current Situation. April 24 (May 7).    [p. 350]

  ^[80] The "Workers' Opposition" -- an anti-Party anarcho-syndicalist group in the R.C.P.(B.), headed by Shlyapnikov, Medvedyev and others. It was formed in the latter half of 1920 and fought the Leninist line of the Party. The Tenth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.) condemned the "Workers' Opposition" and decided that propaganda of the ideas of the anarcho-syndicalist deviation was incompatible with membership of the Communist Party. Subsequently the remnants of the routed "Workers' Opposition" linked up with counter-revolutionary Trotskyism, and were crushed as enemies of the Party and the Soviet regime.    [p. 352]

  ^[81] Sotsialistichesky Vestnik  (Socialist Herald ) -- a magazine, organ of the Menshevik whiteguard émigrés, founded by Martov in February 1921. Until March 1933 it was published in Berlin, and from May of that year until June 1940 in Paris. It was later published in America as a mouthpiece of the most reactionary imperialist circles.    [p. 356]

  ^[82] The conference of representatives of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain and the Miners' Union of the U.S.S.R. was held in Berlin on July 7, 1926. It discussed continuation of the campaign in aid of the locked-out British miners. It adopted a declaration "To the Workers of the World," appealing for energetic support of the British miners and it expressed the need for an early meeting of the Anglo-Russian Unity

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Committee. The conference decided on the expediency of setting up an Anglo-Soviet Miners' Committee for maintaining mutual contact and for achieving united revolutionary action of the Miners' Union of the U.S.S.R. and the International Miners' Federation.    [p. 359]