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section of the bourgeoisie, while never forgetting that our aim is the establishment of socialism. In such circumstances, anti-superpower united front work will become the main aspect of our activity. However, this stage will only serve to lay firmer foundations for socialist revolution, following the defeat of Soviet social-imperialist aggression. This stage has not yet arrived, but must be prepared for. At present, it is necessary to conduct the class struggle against Britain's monopoly capitalists as vigorously as possible, and strive to develop Communist leadership over that struggle. This will strengthen the working class organizationally and politically, and thus place the Proletariat in a favourable position to lead the struggle to smash Soviet aggression. If we were to play down the class struggle in Britain under the pretext of not weak- ening the country in the face of Soviet aggression, this would, in practice, weaken prolet- arian leadership and retard the development of the proletariat as an independent political force, and this would provide more favourable opportunities for the Soviet hegemonists. Anti-super-power united front work in Britain contributes to the building of an inter- national united front against the two super powers. In all united front work, the proletariat and its party will, at every stage, decide its own policy without trailing behind the bourgeoisie, retain its full power of initiative, and not mortgage its independence to any other social group or party. THE PATH TO REVOLUTION A revolutionary situation will arise when the bourgeoisie is unable to continue ruling in the old way, and the proletariat is not prepared to go on in the old way. In order to force down the working people's living standards still further and suppress the struggles which workers are bound to waze against this, the state will intensify its use of violent repression. The working class, under the leadership of its party, will counter with revolutionary violence, overthrow the bourgeois state and establish the dictatorship of the proletariat. In the fight to overthrow the system, the more the working class is able to defend and extend democrat- ic rights, and the more it is able to win allies, the easier it will be to win victory and mini- mise the bloodshed which is unavoidably involved. If such a revolution occurs before the defeat of the two super-powers, it will make a great contribution towards strengthening the resistance of the world's peoples against their aggression. However, it is almost certain that a new world war will be unleashed by Soviet social- imperialism before thw working class seizes power in Britain. If this happens, the proletariat will take the lead in defeating aggression, building up its strength for the transition to socialism. The socialist revolution is the achievement of the masses of workers, and cannot poss- ibly be carried out "on their behalf" by a few individual heroes or terrorists. The work of Communists, both before and after the victory of the revolution, is to serve the working people, defend their interests, take on the most difficult tasks, remould themselves so as to do such work better, convince people by example, mobilize the working class and arm them with Marxism-Leninism—Mao Tse Tung thought, and draw class-conscious workers into the party, so as to provide the revolution with an organisational core. THE WORKERS REPUBLIC Through the proletarian revolution, the working class will take power and will have the right and responsibility to take decisions on all matters from local up to national level. The old parasitic imperialist state will be completely destroyed and replaced by a new kind of state, the dictatorship of the proletariat. This state will guarantee the broadest democracy for working people, while exercising dictatorship over remnants of the old ex- ploiting class, their representatives, and also over any new bourgeoisie which may attempt to restore capitalism and cheat the workers of their power, as happened in the Soviet Union. Apart from this handful of class enemies, all other non-proletarian people must be