Points of unity

  1. Communists struggle for nothing other than the abolition of class society, and do not let the class struggle take a backseat to questions of national, environmental, immediate economic, or demographic issues.

  2. The class struggle is incompatible with reformism, whether by forming coalitions with non-communist parties, or by participating in bourgeois democratic elections.

  3. The working class has no country, the class struggle only begins at the national level, and will die on the vine without the support of the world proletarians. The nation state itself is incompatible with proletarian dictatorship, and the abolition of the present state of things inherently means the breaking down of all national differences.

  4. Capitalism no longer has a progressive role to play in history, and nation states, as slices of world capitalism, have no business being upheld by communists. This consequently means that the thesis of the right of nations to self determination no longer applies in the era of global imperialism, and subordination of the class struggle to national liberation struggle is incompatible with the communist programme.

  5. Communism is the real movement to abolish the present state of things, and as far as it is theoretical, is the expression of the conditions necessary for the liberation of the proletarian class, namely its self abolition, and consequently the abolition of classes in general.

  6. No state on the earth can be called a dictatorship of the proletariat, and every state on earth is an active participant in global imperialism.

  7. The communist movement can only temporarily gain and sustain power in a single country, the nature of the world capitalist productive apparatus necessitates a world revolution to strangle the social relation of capital. It is impossible for communism, even in its lower stage, to exist within a single country, owing to the impossibility for the production of commodities, and therefore the existence of class itself inherently existing on a global scale.

  8. Even when democratic elections are used and whatever the form of the representative system may be, the state is always the exclusive organ of the capitalist class.

  9. Marxist theory need not be updated nor revised with new contributions given the invariance of the current capitalist mode of production necessitates invariance in its abolition “The proletariat is the last class to be exploited in history and no system of exploitation will follow capitalism: this is the very reason why the doctrine which is born with the proletariat itself can be neither changed nor reformed. The development of capitalism from its origin up to now has confirmed and confirms the Marxist theorems laid out in the fundamental texts of the proletarian party. The last 40 years have brought nothing new and all that they have "taught" us, is that capitalism has a tough skin and that it must be overthrown. The central focus point of the actual doctrinal position of our movement is therefore the following: no revision whatsoever of the primary principles of the proletarian revolution” (Characteristic Theses of the Party).

  10. Trade unions on their own are not inherently revolutionary institutions, and have largely been integrated as tools of mediation within the capitalist productive apparatus. However, the potential still exists for links between the unions and genuine proletarian organizations, mainly serving as a link to workers with trade union consciousness.