The Principles of the International Revolutionary Communist League
Name
The name of this league is the “International Revolutionary Communist League”. In the rest of this document the International Revolutionary Communist League may be referred to as IRCL or the League.
Purpose
The purpose of the League is to promote and assist in the formation of an international revolutionary communist party which, like the League, is committed to the revolutionary replacement of the outmoded and oppressive current mode of production (capitalism) by a rational, thoughtful and less harmful economic system (communism). We work toward building a revolutionary organisation with working class leadership to fight for international communism.
Principles
The League’s essential and fundamental basis for political agreement, both within the League (i.e., between members) and with other organisations, follow these principles:
- We are a working class organisation with the interests of the working class as our guiding principle.
- We work for a future where people are valued equally. We fight against discrimination based on race, gender, religion, ethnicity, cast, sexual orientation, age, disability and all the other ways in which capitalism tries to divide workers.
- We are a revolutionary organisation. Our goal of a communist future can not be reached by any other means than revolution. We view reformism, the timid attempt to make gradual changes within the existing political and social structures rather than overthrowing them entirely, as a dangerous delusion of much greater value to the capitalist class than our own.
- We are internationalist. Communism can not be built piecemeal, one country at a time. Capitalism is global and its overthrow is an international task to be undertaken by the international working class.
- Our demands start from the consciousness of the working class but lead forward to revolutionary change. We agree with the process outlined by Leon Trotsky in his Transitional Program (1938).
- The League sees working together with like-minded organisations in United Fronts, as outlined by Leon Trotsky in his Transitional Program (1938), as a fundamental method of building the international communist organisations needed to smash the capitalist system and replace it with communism.