The Revolutionary Struggle in the Era of Capitalist Collapse

Manifesto adopted by the IV. Congress of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), September 2023, www.thecommunists.net

 

Introductory Note

This Manifesto has been discussed and adopted at the IV. Congress of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT). Resting on the methods and strategies of our previous programmatic documents – “The Revolutionary Communist Manifesto (2012), the “Manifesto for Revolutionary Liberation” (2016) and “The Fire of Revolution Will Burn Down Catastrophic Capitalism!” (2021) –, this document should be seen as an update which takes into account the changes and challenges of the current phase.

 

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An Era of Catastrophes, Wars and Revolutionary Struggles

 

 

 

We are living in an era which many people perceive as a never-ending period of catastrophes. The climate crisis with devastating consequences for the world population, slumps alternating with stagnation of the world economy, rising inflation, a Cold War between the Great Powers of East and West which could easily transform in a nuclear Armageddon, a major war in the Ukraine, Artificial Intelligence, threats of comprehensive surveillance and control of the society under the pretext of a pandemic or other dangers, …

 

All these developments confirm the RCIT’s analysis of the profound revolutionary character of the historic period which opened in 2008 with the Great Recession and the rise of China as an imperialist power ending the long-term U.S. hegemony. Today, it is obvious that the capitalist social order is broken and has entered a protracted period of collapse, characterized by chaos, catastrophes, and wars. Faced with the terminal crisis of their system, the ruling capitalist class – the notorious Lords of Power and Money – tries to save themselves from drowning by all available means.

 

Everyone can see that – contrary to claims of bourgeois fabulists – the market and the attached political system are incapable of creating a rational economy which could ensure a sustainable future allowing a decent life and democratic rights for the majority of the world population.

 

From invading foreign countries to threatening rivals with a pre-emptive nuclear strike, from attacking living standards and social rights to super-exploiting migrants and women, from recklessly plundering natural resources of our planet, from transforming the society into a glass house with the top brass watching everyone and everything – this is capitalism in the raw. It can not be otherwise since it is a system where the capitalist superrich try to squeeze profits from wherever they can and where the Great Powers are addicted to strive for armament and annihilation of their rivals.

 

To save humanity, we must destroy capitalism. It is them or us. Either the ruling class keeps power and wrecks our planet and its inhabitants. Or the working class and the oppressed overthrow these decadent parasites and take fate in their own hands. It shall be the latter because we want to live – free, without chains; peacefully, without fear of war; with children who don’t have to go to bed hungry or being scared for the future!

 

To achieve this, we must not passively resign ourselves to our fate. We need to take fate in our own hands! Taking power means deposing the ruling class of its power. This means a revolution, i.e. an armed insurrection since rulers never give up power peacefully. A revolution which abolishes capitalism is, by definition, a socialist revolution. This is what we need, and this is what we must do!

 

All over the world the masses have repeatedly rebelled in the past years against misery and oppression. To give a few examples of the determination of workers and oppressed to fight for their rights we refer to the Great Arab Revolution which started in 2011, the heroic Intifada of the Palestinian people, popular uprisings in Burma/Myanmar, Peru and Hong Kong, Somali partisans fighting foreign occupiers, the Southern people in Nigeria resisting against national oppression, mass protests in France and Catalonia, Ukrainian workers and youth taking up arms to resist Putin’s invasion, courageous anti-war protesters in Russia. Other examples are the great workers and popular battles in the US "backyard" like the rebellion in Plaza Dignidad in Chile – stopped with the policy of restrictions of the COVID Counterrevolution – or the militant mobilizations against the dictatorship of Dina Boluarte in Peru which show that the continent is inevitably going towards another revolutionary rise against populist or neoliberal governments.

 

But all these struggles lack a revolutionary program of liberation and a party which could lead them to victory. Instead, such protests are either spontaneously and the militant energy soon fizzles out; or they are led by non-revolutionary forces – reformists and populists, petty-bourgeois nationalists and Islamists – which steer such struggles to a dead-end.

 

Hence, a revolution will not just happen. It must be done – done by us. It will definitely not happen under the leadership of non-revolutionary forces. A revolution can only succeed if it is organized and led by revolutionaries. Such an endeavour needs preparation and organization. It requires the collective association of likeminded activists who agree on the goal and the means to achieve it.

 

In other words, we need a party based on a clear program; concretely, we need a revolutionary party based on a scientific Marxist program. Such a party must not be limited to a single city or a single country – it must be a revolutionary International, a World Party for Socialist Revolution in the tradition of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky.

 

The RCIT is an international organization dedicated to these great tasks for which we promote the unity of consistent revolutionaries. We call those who agree with the perspective and our program as it is elaborated in this Manifesto, to join us and to contribute to the greatest challenge of our time: the liberation of the working class and oppressed from the shackles of catastrophic capitalism – a social order which is in decay, and which threatens to engulf humanity in the abyss!

 

Wars of Oppression and Wars of Liberation

 

 

 

As we are living in an era of capitalist collapse, it is inevitable that social, political, and military contradictions result in explosions. This is why the current period is characterised by wars and revolutions – the two sharpest forms of class contradictions.

 

The inter-imperialist rivalry between the Great Powers (U.S., China, Russia, EU and Japan) is a key driving force of the world situation. Currently, these powers are basically grouped in a Western (U.S., Western Europe and Japan) and an Eastern alliance (China and Russia), albeit both alliances are not without inner contradictions.

 

All imperialist states have entered an armament race, impose trade sanctions against their rivals and try to expand their influence in the semi-colonial countries. The U.S. occupied Afghanistan and Iraq in the period of their notorious “War on Terror”, Russia brutally occupied Chechnya and invaded the Ukraine, France and other European powers have sent troops to Northern and Central Africa and so has Russia’s Wagner PMC, U.S. special units equipped with high-tech drones operate and kill in Somalia, etc.

 

As Marxists, we strictly differentiate between just wars and unjust wars, wars of oppression and wars of liberation. Just wars are armed insurrections and civil wars of the working class and the popular masses against the ruling class, of oppressed nations against their oppressors, of democratic forces against reactionary and fascist opponents. Just wars are wars of national defence of semi-colonial countries against imperialist aggressors. Reactionary wars are wars of the ruling class resp. imperialist powers against the oppressed as well as military conflicts between sectors of the ruling class resp. between reactionary or imperialist states.

 

In a world ridden by explosive contradictions, by oppression and inter-imperialist rivalry, it is possible (and to a certain degree inevitable) that both types of conflicts – just wars of liberation and inter-imperialist rivalry – become intermixed (e.g. the Ukraine War). It is the task of Marxists in such a situation to concretely analyse the evolvement of such conflicts and to determine which element is dominating (resp. when such a character is changing).

 

The RCIT and all authentic socialists have always unconditionally supported the oppressed in wars of liberation without lending support to their non-revolutionary leadership (e.g. Argentina against Britain in the Malvinas War 1982, Afghanistan and Iraq against the U.S. and their allies in 2001/03 and after, Chechnya in 1994-96 and 1999-2009 as well as Ukraine against Russia in 2022/23, Bosnia 1992-95 and Kosova 1998-99, the Syrian rebels against the military forces of Assad and Russia, the rebels in Burma/Myanmar against the military dictatorship since 2021, the Somali resistance against ATMIS/Western troops).

 

In reactionary conflicts, we oppose both camps (e.g. the Cold War between the Western powers and Russia/China; in reactionary civil wars like the one in Sudan between the army and the RSF forces in 2023).

 

In wars of liberation, we call for the military victory of the progressive camp and the defeat of the reactionary forces. We support military aid for the oppressed and support all means which weaken the oppressors (boycott, sabotage, fraternization of soldiers, turning the guns against the army command, etc.) In reactionary wars, we advocate Lenin’s program of revolutionary defeatism in both camps (no support for military efforts or for non-military means of aggression like economic sanctions or chauvinist campaigns, for fraternisation between the workers and soldiers of both camps, transform the reactionary war into a civil war against the ruling class, etc.)

 

Socialists strongly oppose pacifism and its poisonous advocacy of non-violence. Surely, we fight for a world of peace. But this will only be possible if the global capitalist system based on classes and states has been replaced by a socialist world federation. But until then, renouncing the use of violence in the struggle for liberation is being led like lambs to the slaughter. Those who preach pacifism – even if they have the best intentions – are objectively aiding those who are in power and have guns. To such pacifists we say, sorry, but non-violence is not the solution! Take a gun in the struggle for freedom or remain a helpless slave forever!

 

Capitalist Civilization Threats and the Struggle to Save Humanity

 

 

 

The reckless drive for profit and power is destroying our planet and endangering the society with increasing pace. If we don’t stop the Lords of Money and Power, life on earth will become increasingly unbearable or a global detention centre.

 

Climate change resulting from widespread use of fossil fuels in capitalist industries and means of transport, the use of increasingly energy-intensive technologies, the unrestrained destruction of forests, the expansion of monocultures in farming, the development of companies related to mega-mining, fracking, nuclear energy and other techniques that pollute and destroy nature, etc. – all this endangers the foundations of human life on the planet. Global warming provokes water scarcity, expansion of deserts, unbearable heat waves, floodings, destruction of flora and fauna, etc. As a consequence, hundred of thousands of people are dying and millions are forced to flee their home – mostly in the Global South. Such undermining of public health and destruction of natural balance also create the basis for proliferation of pandemics.

 

Cynically, the same capitalist corporations and state leaders who are responsible for environmental destruction, try to utilise such threats to legitimise their attacks on democratic rights via dramatic expansion and further development of technologies for surveillance and replacement of humans – a system which we call Chauvinist State Bonapartism. We have seen such during the COVID pandemic in 2020-22 when capitalist governments all over the world forced populations to stay at home (“Lockdowns”) or imposed regimes of restricted mobility (“Green Pass”). Such developments have not stopped after the end of the pandemic. In fact, the rapid expansion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) massively facilitates the possibilities for capitalist corporations and state machineries to undermine the most elementary social and democratic rights of the popular masses.

 

In general, AI in the hands of capitalists serves a reactionary purpose. If and to what extent AI can and will be utilized in a future socialist society, will be decided after the destruction of the capitalist system via the global socialist revolution. Maybe these technologies will find their application in a socialist society to work for the benefit of humanity.

 

It is evident that only a radical reversal of the energy and environmental policy can save our planet and our future. One must not have any illusions in capitalist governments and their “climate summits”. The only way to combat climate change is the formation of a global mass movement fighting for an international emergency plan controlled by the working class and the peoples, who are the ones who suffer the most from the consequences of the policies of capitalism. The struggle for necessary environmental reforms must be combined with the aim of overthrowing capitalism, because only then can such an emergency plan be implemented fully and permanently.

 

The RCIT and all authentic socialists call for a conversion of the energy and transport system and a global phasing out of fossil fuels and nuclear energy production. Massive research into the use of alternative forms of energy such as wind, tidal and solar power as well as a program for global reforestation are necessary. For the nationalization under workers' control of all energy companies and all companies that are responsible for basic supplies such as water and agricultural products as well as the airlines, shipping and rail facilities!

 

We also propose the replacement of several of the main techniques that are used by large agro-livestock companies, pesticides and transgenic seeds, which, as activists from the most affected countries have shown, produce food that makes people sick and generate irreparable damage to the population which lives close to the crops (e.g. cancer). A similar situation occurs in the production of meat, since in order for these to go quickly to the market, they are inoculated with vaccines and products that threaten the health of the population.

 

We strictly oppose all steps towards increasing surveillance and control of mobility by the capitalist state or corporations. They might say that these are means to protect people’s health or living conditions – in fact “Big Brother” only protects the Lords of Power and Money from the popular masses! Hence, we oppose Lockdowns, the “Green Pass” system as well as the expansion of AI. Our guiding principle in the struggle against such evils is the slogan oppose and obstruct”! As the Bolsheviks, who faced all kinds of plagues as soon as they took power in 1917, stated, the best way to deal with such problems is the mobilization and organization – in contrast to the policy of isolation! – of the class capable of revolutionizing the world, the working class.

 

The Terminally Ill Capitalist World Economy and the Struggle for a Decent Living Standard

 

 

 

Despite the invention of increasingly powerful technologies, the capitalist world economy can not escape its structural tendency towards stagnation. In the past decades, growth rates of output and labour productivity have declined while misery, social insecurity and underemployment have increased.

 

Since the 1980s, the bosses, their politicians and ideologists have sermonized that capitalist globalisation would result in spreading of wealth and democracy. Today, these charlatans have become silent and embarrassed. The Great Recession in 2008-09, the Great Depression since 2019, sky-rocking inflation, obscene social inequality and massive disruptions of global trade – this is reality of capitalism!

 

An increasing number of bourgeois politicians and economists are now replacing their gospel of globalisation with preaches of protectionism. However, history has demonstrated more than once – think about the catastrophic 1920s and 1930s – that capitalist autarky is certainly no driving force of growth.

 

No, contrary to the daydreams of the bourgeois economists, the capitalist economy is subjugated not to the laws of equilibrium of supply and demand or to Keynesian concepts of state-driven stimulus but to those which Marx explained in Capital: the laws of capitalist accumulation and the corresponding tendency of the profit rate to fall. It is such laws which provoke the tendency of capitalism to breakdown.

 

The only way out is the abolition of private property of production means, i.e. of the ill-fated profit system, and its replacement by a rational system of planned economy according to the needs of people. Only such a radical cut with the heavy burden of the dark past of capitalism will allow a life of freedom and material security for all!

 

Naturally, such a planned economy can only properly work if it is democratically controlled by the workers and popular masses and not by a parasitic elite of bureaucrats – as it was the case in the Stalinist states.

 

This does not mean that we shall wait until the working class has broken its iron chains and overthrown the capitalist exploiter class. No, we must fight for our rights already now, every single day, because the struggle for better living conditions, even the softening of attacks, allows us to better prepare for future struggles, helps us to learn and organise as a collective.

 

The RCIT calls the workers vanguard to organise and fight for their interests. Against layoffs, wage cuts and price inflation, we call for strikes to defend jobs and wages! Against closures of enterprises, we call for their nationalization under workers control! Against unemployment, we call for a public employment program paid by the rich! Against cuts in the health and welfare system, we call for their expansion and for socialized medicine under workers and popular control! Since the small petty-bourgeoisie and lower middle class are the natural allies of the proletariat, we support their demands for financial compensation in times of crisis, paid by higher taxes of the rich!

 

Their War of Ideas and Ours

 

 

 

The war between classes and states, between the oppressors and the oppressed, is waged by strikes and state repression, by demonstrations and police operation, by insurrections and coup d’états, by sanctions and military means. However, this war also takes place in the realm of ideas and ideologies. The ruling class of different powers spread ideologies in order to manipulate their subjects so that they act as unquestioning servants in enterprises and barracks. Reformists, populists and petty-bourgeois forces spread such ideologies so that they can confuse the masses and utilise their heroic struggles to get their place at the trough of power within the capitalist system.

 

The RCIT says that only a scientific socialist worldview as it has been elaborated by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky is capable to counter such reactionary and confusing ideologies. It is the task of socialists to wage a merciless war against the ideas of rulers and reactionary muddleheads.

 

Currently, the governments of Western powers and their social democratic lackeys in the labour movement paint the Cold War against their Eastern rivals as a conflict between “Democracies versus Autocracies”. This is hypocrisy squared! When Russia had cosier relations with the U.S. and EU (before 2014), their national leaders invited Yeltsin and then Putin to join the G7 meetings. Hundreds of thousands of Chechens massacred by Russian occupation forces were no obstacle at all for smiling photo ops between Western “democrats” and the Kremlin boss! And China? No doubt, the Stalinist-capitalist regime is a reactionary dictatorship. But it was no less dictatorial when Western leaders were glad to use the very same conditions of brutal repression in Middle Kingdom to ensure cheap production of numerous consumer goods! Everybody remembers that Washington and Brussels did not grow tired to sign treaty after treaty with Beijing despite the bloody massacre on Tiananmen Square in June 1989! And how democratic are the present friends of Western imperialists – like Israel’s Apartheid regime slaughtering Palestinians every single day, like the absolutist monarchies of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, like Egypt’s military dictatorship of General Sisi or the Tunisian regime of Kais Saied, …?! In the real world, it is not “Democracies versus Autocracies” but “Democracies hand in hand with Autocracies” – they are all enemies of the workers and oppressed!

 

To counter their Western rivals, Putin and Xi – as well as their Stalinist and populist lackeys in workers and popular movements – preach the concept of a Multi-Polar World Order. They claim that this would be a more democratic alternative to globalisation under U.S. hegemony. Such an ideology is both absurd and cynical. If Putin and Xi want a more democratic world order, they should start at home and allow more freedoms for their own populations! And why should a multi-polar world order be better than a unipolar world order? Think about the first half of the 20th century and its two World Wars! The truth, which the Putinistas and Semi-Putinistas try to conceal, is the following: a unipolar world order is one dominated by a single robber (the U.S.) while a multi-polar world order is one in which several robbers compete against each other in the struggle for their respective hegemony. Which one is better? Socialists equally reject one and the other since both are worse!

 

The rulers of the Great Powers package their unappeasable drive for power and money behind ideologies which are supposedly unique to their states. Western Values, Ruskij Mir and Tianxia – these are the respective civilization concepts of Western powers, Russia respective China. Each one is a cynical charade as they hide their base motives behind highfaluting phrases. In every single one of these powers, the powerful elite and the superrich are corrupt and decadent. They think about their fatherland only when it fills the pockets. They enthusiastically send their soldiers to battlefield but their own wealth to foreign tax havens. They preach a moral of sacrifice and decency but molest women and children, pay or receive bribes, mix politics and business, etc. Who are they to teach us any moral?! Workers and oppressed, make no mistake: their fatherland is not your fatherland. Let them die together with their fatherland! No sacrifices for their fatherland but all sacrifices for our own future motherland! Our liberation – this is something to live and to die for; the collective struggle of the oppressed for freedom – this is a compass on which we base our collective, socialist moral!

 

Since some time, ultra-reactionary crackpots of the white supremacist movement are spreading the bizarre idea of “Great Replacement”. According to this phantasma, the governments of North America and Europe are importing migrants in order to replace the domestic population. Leaving aside the “small detail” that – in the real world – these governments are killing, or letting die, thousands of refugees at the border to Mexico or in the Mediterranean, this “theory” conceals the simple fact that the white population – the constituency of the old imperialist powers – is ageing and without future prospects within this system. It is hardly the fault of the coloured peoples of the South if the U.S. and Europe have a low fertility rate! As a matter of fact, these aging societies of the rich world could not continue to exist without migrants, their labour and their financial contributions to the social system! Leaving all this aside, the old imperialist powers have plundered the peoples of Africa, Latin America and Asia for centuries. Today, the carbon emissions of these powers destroy the living conditions of the Global South. No wonder that many people from these countries can't bear this situation any longer and flee their homes. The RCIT says – picking up the old slogan of the Communist Youth International before its Stalinist degeneration – “Our Home is the World”. Migrants are equally brothers and sisters to us as are domestic workers! Hence, we call for international unity of the workers and oppressed, equality for migrants (including the right to use their native language in public administration and education as well as the right to vote) and open borders for refugees.

 

Finally, we shall mention the bizarre slogan which was preached in the past years on all continents: Trust the Science! Such a phrase was used by capitalist governments in order to make people subordinate to the policy of the COVID Counterrevolution (Lockdowns, Green Pass, etc.). Leaving aside the “small detail” that science is an issue of knowledge and not of faith, one has to recognise the real meaning of this phrase of ruling class ideologists: in fact, they mean “Trust the Scientists” who tell us what to do. However, while there exist thousands of well-meaning and honest scientists, the reality is that usually they depend on money from corporations or the state. If they don’t tell the public what their bosses want to hear, their career could be over pretty damn quick. As simple as that! We say that the workers and oppressed have no reason to trust the scientists or their bosses and politicians but every reason to ask for the class interests behind this or that scientific institution; likewise, they should collaborate with critical scientists who do research independent of profit and career.

 

The Struggle for Power to Open the Road to a Socialist Future

 

 

 

The struggle in defence of our rights requires the broadest possible militant unity of our class. For this we need organs of self-organisation – councils of action, popular assemblies, “soviets” (as they were called in the Russian Revolutions in 1905 and 1917). Such organs unite all workers in an enterprise, all oppressed in a neighbourhood or village, all soldiers in a company. Such organs should link with each other on a local, regional and national level via a system of recallable delegates. They should jointly discuss and plan the struggle for our rights. They shall create armed organisations which defend us against the bosses and their police.

 

Due to the crisis of the trade unions, which, as Trotsky said, are part of the capitalist regimes – hence their crises – there is a marked tendency towards worker self-organization. For this reason, revolutionaries must propose tactics that aid the construction of organisms that express this dynamic, beginning with grassroots assemblies, which are the fundament on which these Soviet organisations rest. There, revolutionaries must raise the need to vote not only on the next steps of the struggle, and the unification of these, but also on economic and social plans on a worker, popular and socialist basis.

 

As long as revolutionaries remain a small minority within the working class, they are obligated to collaborate with other forces. We strive for unity of action with reformist, populist and petty-bourgeois forces wherever they represent significant sectors of the workers and oppressed. At the same time, we reserve the right to criticize the leaderships of such forces for their limitations and for their unwillingness to consistently fight against the ruling class. Within these institutions, socialists will permanently and systematically promote that the rank-and-file decide everything through democratic assemblies and that the union bodies of the companies – internal commissions, bodies of delegates – become, when there are conflicts, combat committees, that incorporate not only unionized workers, but the whole workforce.

 

We do not ignore official trade unions but fight within such organisations for the replacement of the existing bureaucracies by a militant leadership. In the struggle for the change in the leadership of the unions, revolutionaries propose the democratization of these, with concrete measures that serve to achieve it, such as the obligation to consult everything with the rank-and-file, through assemblies, the rotation of leaders, so that they cannot be in charge of the union leadership for more than one mandate. And, furthermore, that no professional union official receives more than the average salary of the workers he or she represents.

 

Likewise, we join movements of the nationally and socially oppressed and advocate the formation of revolutionary movements of women, black people, migrants, LGBT+ people, peoples with disabilities etc. We understand that these organizations are a united front with non-proletarian sectors, which is why we must be attentive to their evolution, since the leaderships, in general, tend to go after the bourgeoisie, as happened with the "Green Tide" of Argentina, which after successfully pushing through the right of abortion, was co-opted almost completely by Kirchnerism. For this reason, within these movements, we fight for the classist and revolutionary point of view.

 

The RCIT recognises the necessity for socialists to participate in elections for bourgeois parliaments since such offer the opportunity to utilise these for revolutionary agitation. However, in contrast to reformist bureaucrats and centrist muddleheads, we strongly reject any illusion in the possibility to transform capitalism peacefully or via parliamentary reforms. The only road to liberation is the socialist revolution, i.e. the armed insurrection of the workers and oppressed.

 

While reformists and centrists look for elections as the main field of their activities, revolutionaries orientate to the field of mass struggle. Demonstrations, strikes, general strikes, insurrection, civil war – these are the means via which the masses can break the chains of oppression.

 

Participation in the bourgeois parliament must have a clear objective, that of encouraging mistrust in these bodies and the need for the mass movement to resort to the only instrument capable of freeing it from oppression and exploitation: direct action.

 

All partial struggles should ultimately aim for the creation of a workers’ and poor peasant government. Such a government must be based on action councils of the workers, peasant and poor as well as on armed popular militias. It would turn immediately to the decisive task of expropriating the capitalist class as well as replacing the armed state apparatus of the bourgeoisie by workers' and people's militia.

 

Such a government must not be confused with so-called “left-wing” governments like the PT-led popular front government in Brazil, the Maduro government in Venezuela, the PSOE/PODEMOS government in Spain or the SYRIZA government in Greece. These are all bourgeois governments which disguise their service for the capitalist class with some “progressive” reforms and phrases. No, we reiterate that only authentic workers’ and popular government can open the road to socialist revolution!

 

In the struggle for a workers', revolutionary and socialist government, we are not only confronting the agents of the bourgeoisie or the traditional union bureaucracy, but also different variants of centrism, even Trotskyist, which, as happened during the Spanish Revolution with the POUM, plays a disastrous role, because it aids, irrespective of its intentions, the process of demobilization of the working class. Centrism is, in the midst of a revolutionary situation like the one that is approaching, a sinister enemy, which we must relentlessly denounce, which does not mean acting in a sectarian way or not proposing common actions.

 

An example of centrism is the Argentinean FITu, made up of Trotskyist organizations that have adapted to bourgeois democracy and, therefore, lack a consistent revolutionary policy. Our section acts within this force, maintains fraternal relations with its members, but without ceasing to criticize their surrender. The fight against centrism is important, because, in addition, from the forces that make it up, will come the fractions and leaders that break to the left and with whom we will be able to advance the building of the revolutionary party.

 

This task, that of promoting the unity of the revolutionaries, is fundamental, since there is no possibility of setting up the general staff of the revolution, national and international, without connecting with other organizations and militants who share a similar approach. The Bolshevik Party, in short, was the product of such a process of unification, after years of intense and tough political debates.

 

For this reason, from the RCIT we do not proclaim ourselves as "the party of the revolution", but rather we propose to collaborate in its construction, developing a program and a consistent praxis, which allows us to meet with other principled sectors in a joint bloc of revolutionary forces. For that, we invite you to join our Revolutionary Communist International Tendency.

 

No future without socialism! Not socialism without revolution! No revolution without a revolutionary party!