The newly formed K.A.P.D. was strongly attacked by the leadership of the III. International and by Lenin, who wrote his famous text on 'Left Communism - An Infantile Disorder' with the K.A.P.D. as one the prime targets. 

The K.A.P.D. however saw itself as the rightfull communist party of Germany and aspired for participation in the III. International. Through 1920 and 1921 the K.A.P.D. sent several delegations to Moscow and had also a more or less permanent representative there.

The Second Congress of the III. International in 1920 adopted the 21 Theses or conditions for participation and demanded from the international left tendencies that they gave up principled anti-parliamentarism, recognized the trade unions as basic workers' organizations and dissolved themselves into the local communist parties in the various countries.

One early delegation of the K.A.P.D.  -  Otto Rühle and August Merges  -  saw this clearly as a demand for liquidation of the revolutionary communist positions and suggested to drop all illusions about the III. International from the start  -  see Rühle's "Report from Moscow".

The official delegation to the Second Congress  -  Jan Appel and Franz Jung  -  and also the leadership of the K.A.P.D. took however the position that the III. International was worth attending and a forum in which the K.A.P.D. could propagate its positions and may be influence  -  see from this delegation the "Bericht der nach Moskau entsandten Delegation".

Following the Second Congress a third delegation  -  Karl Schröder, Herman Gorter and Rasch  -  went to Moscow and negotiated with the Executive of the III. International to have a temporary recognition of the K.A.P.D. as "symphatizing member" of the International.

On the Third Congress of the III. International in 1921 this association of the K.A.P.D. however was brought to an end. On this Congress the Bolshevic leadership of the Comintern repeated its demands towards the various left communist and revolutionary syndicalist currents and sharpened its position that each country could have only one communist party associated to the International.

Attending the Third Congres as delegates of the K.A.P.D. was Jan Appel (pseudonym: Hempel), Alexander Swab (pseudonym: Sachs) and Meyer (pseudonym: Bergmann).

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The present Speech before the Third Congress of the Communist International was held by Jan Appel on the 1 of Juli 1921 as the first commentary opening the debate on the Report on ..... made by Karl Radek. Other speakers to this were Terrachini, Lenin, Micaleka and Vaughan.

The main focus of Radeks Report was 

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This English version of Appels speech was originally made by Mike Baker and published together with ...... This publication was done in an initiative to form a new international Council Communist movement  .......

This text was later on published to the web by Dave Graham at ........

This e-version was made by Kurasje from the publication made by Dave Graham.