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Documents of the First (Founding) Congress of the Communist Labor Party of the United States of North America


Resolution on Party Organization

This Party Congress resolves to constitute a Multi-National, Marxist-Leninist Communist Party in the United States of North America based upon the general political and organizational principles for Communist Parties which were adopted by the Third International.

Whereas the Congress, the highest body of the Party, is mandated to elect a Central Committee, General Secretary and Organizational Secretary, the Central Committee is mandated by the Congress to set up the organizational apparatus for the Party. This should include:

1. A Political Bureau, to be formed consisting of the leading members of the Central Committee including the General Secretary and the Organizational Secretary. The job of the Political Bureau will be to lead the work of the Central Committee between Central Committee meetings and Congresses.
2. A Secretariat to be composed of the General Secretary of the Party and the Secretaries of the leading committees, to coordinate the work of the Party.
3. An Organizational Bureau, to be formed to transfer the work of the Center to the Organization and the work of the Organization to the Center.
4. A National Education Committee, to be formed to carry out education within the Party around the Outline for the Study of Marxism-Leninism.
5. A National Editorial Board, to be formed with the editor appointed by the Central Committee, to put out a Central Organ of the Party known as the People’s Tribune.
6. A Network of District and Local Party Organizations and other committees and Commissions to be appointed by the Central Committee, to be formed with the factory and street nuclei (unit) serving as basic units of the Party.

Further organizational work of the Party will follow the general principles outlined in The Communist Party Manual On Organization. These principles will be adapted to correspond to the present conditions of the class struggle in the USNA and to the needs of the Party.