the political distance between the faction and other communist currents would deepen throughout the 1930s as the faction declared itself opposed to the tactics adopted by the left opposition to broaden its support (i.e. the faction affirmed its opposition to fusion with centrist groups, opposition to entryism and so on). always opposed to the united front tactic of the comintern, the fraction now declared itself firmly opposed to the popular front after 1933. like the trotskyists, it saw the failure of the german communist party in the face of fascism as its historic failure and ceased to consider itself a fraction of the party from the date of its 1935 congress held in brussels.