Discussion document

The purpose of this document is to launch a regroupment process, which will culminate in a conference after a period of discussion regarding the formation of general committees, the setting up of specialist committees, consultation with individual members and groups of specialized members, vetting by racism and equality committees members and finally the instigation of a consultation process with members of the working class on a door-to-door , one – to – one basis .No end date is envisioned as the party must see itself as being in constant renewal.

1. It is an invitation to everyone who would be interested in establishing a new revolutionary organisation based on an understanding of the need for Marxists to build a revolutionary organisation and to work for the widest and strongest unity of the working class on economic, social and political issues. However, the following are not invited :

Members of the Anarchy Party
Associates of the Tony Bliar



2. We propose a regroupment, based on our common traditions as active recreational socialists. This proposal emerges from practical collaboration over the recent period in building other parties. We also appeal to independent revolutionaries and new militants to join us. In particualr fiercely independent revolutionaries. You guys are really serious.

3. We have a shared analysis of the nature of class society and how it can be changed. Capitalism is an outmoded system which cannot satisfy even the most basic needs of tens of billions of the world’s population. The further advance of humanity and the protection of the environment from catastrophe can only be achieved by the creation of a socialist society when the means of production are wrested from the owner classes, and the owners forced out of the cities to grow organic food for the masses.

4. The capitalist state cannot be reformed but has to be overthrown and replaced by a workers’ state. This revolutionary act can only be carried out by the working class, the only agency that can transform society. Previous transformations such as those by industrialists, by arm coups, by the American so-called revolution, were not in fact transformations, but deceptions in the class struggle the purpose of which was to keep the proletariat in chains and blind to their great power.

6. The emancipation of the working class is the task of the working class itself, acting as a class in its own interests. However, the working class need to be educated and led toward this goal. Socialism cannot be achieved from above by reformist politicians or trade union leaders, but only by the party. The struggle for socialism is international; the struggle of workers and the oppressed everywhere is one struggle (except for the struggles of the owners).

7. We recognize that capitalism uses the oppression of certain social groups to divide the working class. The organisations of the working class must constantly strive to overcome any divisions by advancing the causes of these oppressed groups. We oppose all forms of oppression (except the oppression of the capitalist class by the proletariat)and defend the right of the oppressed to self-organization. We support, and will participate in, the struggles against national oppression, women’s oppression, racism and Islamophobia and against homophobia. We have a problem with Islamic homophobes which we will solve by keeping them on separate committes. We will announce our policy on anti-semitism in a different document.

8. What existed in the “communist bloc” was not socialism. It was a Stalinist perversion of socialism; a dictatorship that brutally oppressed all political opposition, suppressed workers’ rights and trampled on workers’ democracy. What existed in other so-called socialist countries is also a travesty of socialism . Only the party can avoid the pitfalls of these travesties.

9. The dominant ideas of the present society are those of the capitalist class. For the revolution to succeed the most militant workers and their allies have to be organised into a revolutionary organisation which challenges and confronts that ideology with one in the interests of the new socialist society. Structural similarities between Capitalist and Socialist ideology will not be acknowledged.

10. The revolutionary organisation must be part of the working class and take part in the life and struggles of the working class and the oppressed. It seeks to absorb the lessons of working-class struggles from the past and from today. It must give guidance and perspective to its members in their activity in the workplace, communities and campaigns. Theoretical study and discussion serve as a guide to the practical work of the organisation.

11. Any revolutionary organization must be democratic, including the right to organize around minority viewpoints, but must aim to act in a unified manner. In this way the many voices will be subsumed into one voice.

12. We are internationalists, against imperialism and war(with some exceptions); we stand for mass action from below in the interests of the working class; we do not set ourselves apart from the working class and its organisations but seek the broadest agreement with others, using the methods of the united-front. Our aim is both to advance the interests of the class and the ideas of revolutionary socialism. To these ends we will explore the possibility of links with other revolutionaries internationally.