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ge at S sion. k- et- cal S. nter- S d the own Cers e, ght crat- ni- ea neir cial- ariat DOSS- of E s to hem the lest x- pt nion. united with, and convinced by their own experience of the superiority of the socialist over the capitalist system. Most will support the building of socialism, accept the leadership of the working class, and make great contributions to the new society. Fundamental changes will be made in society once the working class has power. These revolutionary changes will be possible because: The economy will be rationally planned, in a balanced, all-round way. Profits will no longer be the goal, so that goods will be produced for use, and not as commodities which must be sold to provide profits for a few. Consequently, the cyclical crises of capitalism will disappear, so that there will no longer be any barrier to the steady expansion of production. The initiative and creative energy of working people will be released. All means of production, distribution and exchange will come under social ownership. In order to change the existing state sector from state-capitalist ownership into real socialist ownership, the working class will take over the actual work of management and, even more important, they will assert their control over the actual exercise of state power, since it is the character of the state which determines the actual character of state ownership. Econ- omic planning will be carried out through democratic consultation. Bureacracy will be reduced sharply and most office workers will spend some time doing manual labour. There will be a big extension and development of agriculture, forestry and fishing. The present concentration of industry in certain areas will be reduced, and it will be spread more evenly. Sectors of production which are poorly developed under cap- italism because of unprofitability, but which are socially useful, will be developed and ex- panded. All indirect taxes will be abolished, and there will be a gradual phasing out of direct taxation. Government spending will be financed out of the proceeds of state enterprises. Community life will be developed, so that children and old people will play a greater part in society; more and more household chores will be taken on as a community respon- sibility, and a spirit of co-operation and comradeship will be fostered. The well-being of the whole of society will be the condition for the healthy develop- ment of its individual members. Capitalism, contrary to its claims, represses the potentialities of the great majority of people; these can only be developed under socialism. If, by the end of the socialist revolution, the Irish people have not already achieved national liberation, Britain will immediately withdraw from Ireland. Wales and Scotland will have the right to self-determination, which Communists advocate they should exercise in favour of participating in a socialist federal republic of Britain, along with England. The armed working class, organised in a people's army and people's militia, will en- sure the defence of the country against any imperialist threat. The workers' republic will pursue a foreign policy based on independence and self-reliance, solidarity with genuine socialist countries and the oppressed nations, support to communist and national liberation movements and all revolutionary and progressive causes. All power in the new workers' state will be exercised by the people through elected assemblies which will be real working bodies and not talking shops; they will be under the leadership of the proletariat and its party. All organs of state power at local, regional and national levels will have officials elected by the people directly and by democratic consult- ation. They will be the servants of the people and not their masters, and will be subject to recall by their electorate at any time; there will be a unified system of national and local administration, resting on workers and popular councils at its base. Special attention will be given to keeping out of office the kind of anti-working class bureaucrats who at present (in general) run the trade unions, etc. Class struggle will continue under socialism. To defeat the inevitable attempts at cap- italist restoration, the working class, led by its party, will unleash great mass movements like the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China, to defend and extend their pro- letarian state power. Socialism will fulfil people's rising expectations and needs. Unemployment, poverty, inflation and hunger will become things of the past forever. People will work according to their abilities and receive according to the labour they do. Wage differentials and other forms of inequality will be steadily restricted under social-

ism; in the future, under Communism, people will give according to their abilities and receive according to their needs. The abolition of classes is the fundamental goal of Communists. This can only be attained by going through the stage of socialist society, in which there is a revolutionary and transitional kind of state, the dictatorship of the proletariat. The purpose of this programme is not to explain the world, but to help change it. It is based upon practice and must serve as a guide to practice. Use it as a weapon in the class war, in the war to defeat super-power aggression and make revolution, in the struggle for socialism and Communism, which represent the highest interests of mankind! Workers of the world, oppressed peoples and nations of the world, unite! For an independent, self-reliant, socialist federal republic of Britain! Build the proletarian headquarters, the revolutionary party of the working class!

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PROGRAMME OF THE COMMUNIST WORKERS' MOVEMENT 1977

We believe that the present system, of capitalism, is not part of an eternal "natural order" of things, not a consequence of "human nature". It is a recent arrival in man's history — and has already been done away with in some parts of the world. In Britain too, its days are numbered. The problems we face — unemployment, poverty, slump, inflation, are not some "illness" of capitalism, they are an essential part of how it works. All these evils are the direct result of the private ownership of wealth, and the consequent exploitation by a few of the mass of the population, the workers who produce all wealth — and whose reward is a tiny pittance. In Britain this disproportion is increasing as more and more wealth is concentrated into the group of fewer and fewer monopolies. This tiny minority of the population holds complete control of the economy and political power, and effectively controls all the machinery of the state, the armed forces, the police, judiciary and upper rank of the Civil Service. The economic and political power of the capitalist class has its couterpart in the domin- ation and control of the production of ideas, through which it maintains the repressive machinery of the state.

Experience throughout the world shows that the ruling class will defend its power by any means, legal or illegal, peaceful or violent, and so, if any fundamental change is to come about, the mass of exploited people must be prepared to use any means necessary, including revolut- ionary violence, to strip them of their power and wealth. Such a change can only be effected by the working class and its allies if they are organised and disciplined, i.e. led by a working class Party dedicated to revolution. It cannot be done by a small group of plotters or terrorists. It can only come about when the development of capitalism, economically and politically has reached such a stage, such a pitch of crisis that the mass of workers has no option but to move. The Party can expedite the conditions for such move- ment — the success of the move when it comes is entirely dependent on how well the Party has organised and prepared the class. Success in proletarian revolution can only be brought about through integrating the principles of scientific socialism, expressed in the works of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao Tse Tung with the concrete conditions in our own country. What do we mean by Socialism? Not the phoney socialism of the Labour Party with its sixty years history of betrayal, and its attempts to organise the working 4

d s. n, ry class to make capitalism work, nor is it the "socialism" of the USSR which uses pseudo-socialist phrases but where in fact one huge capitalist monopoly, the state, exploits the mass of Soviet workers and peasants on behalf of a small ruling elite of Party and State bosses, nor indeed the CPGB's domestic amalgam of Soviet and 'left' labour policies. We are fighting for a working class democracy in which the producers of wealth, the working class will own the factories, the land, the hospitals, the schools, the courts etc. and will run them themselves according to the will of the majority, in which the working class will exercise dictatorship over the former capitalists in order to abolish capitalism's forces. This is what is meant by the dictatorship of the proletariat, a step on the way to the ultimate aim, the classless society in which classes and therefore the state have finally disappeared. Communism is not an ideology foreign to the working class as Tories, Labourites and Fascists would have us believe. It is the summation of the revolutionary struggles of our class and indicates our historic destiny, it cannot be brought to workers in Britain from outside, it grows through our own struggles to survive. How we build our future depends on us workers in Britain, on historical experiences and traditions. The workers of Britain are not isolated, they are part of the struggles for human progress, and just as our experiences form part of that world struggle, so do the