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Manifesto of the Revolutionary Communist League of Britain


SECTION A – FUNDAMENTAL COMMUNIST PRINCIPLES

1. The Revolutionary Communist League of Britain holds that the central task in Britain today is to build the revolutionary Communist Party, the political party of the working class.

2. The League takes the stand of the working class, which today is the only really revolutionary class.

3. The League takes as the theoretical basis guiding its thinking Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought, the crystallization of the most correct and most revolutionary scientific thought of the world proletariat. The British revolutionary Communist Party must integrate the universal truths of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought with the concrete practice of the British revolution.

4. The basic programme of the revolutionary Communist Party will be the complete Overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat in place of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and the triumph of socialism over capitalism. The ultimate aim of the Party will be the realization of a communist, classless society.

5. Revolutionary Communists are the vanguard of the working class, that part of the working class which is most conscious and most resolute. At the same time they have no interests separate and apart from the proletariat as a whole. They are distinguished by this only: 1) In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interests of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality. 2) In the various stages of development which the struggle of the working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole.

6. Revolutionary Communists do not set up any sectarian-principles of their own, by which to shape and mould the proletarian movement. Their theoretical conclusions merely express in general terms, actual relations springing from an existing class struggle, from a historical movement going on under our very eyes.