Central parties suppress intra-party disputes from reaching international sections

Evidence

There had been no discussion of the Russian question at the Lyons Congress. This was the moment when the conflict between Stalin and Bukharin on the one hand and Zinoviev, Kamenev and Krupskaya on the other hand had just exploded at the Fourteenth Congress to the Bolshevik Party in December 1925; Trotsky had been silent for almost a year, and it was only in April 1926 that he was to join forces with Zinoviev and Kamenev. But almost immediately after Lyons, the Sixth Enlarged Executive Committee meeting took place in Moscow, and inevitably the new inner-party struggle in Russia formed its background. Zinoviev was of course still President of the Comintern, and it had become essential for Stalin and Bukharin to prevent him from using the international organisation as a power base. The Central Committee of the Russian party therefore requested the other national sections of the Cominturn not to carry the discussion of the Russian question into the ranks of the International. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 212

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete historical instance of how a ruling party controls internationalist discourse from the center — connects to how dominant institutions police the boundaries of legitimate political speech.