The Global Communist Programme

Global Communist Group

[The term "Communist Think-Tank" expresses the mission that members of the Global Communist Group (GCG) see themselves engaged in. Their task would seem to be monumental since they regard the century or more since the deaths of Marx and Engels as a hiatus in the development of "communist theory." Their online group intends to fill this need. The GCG exists as a web site. With no published journals and thus no postal address, its internal organization, membership strength, and location exist only in cyberspace. Their Global Communist Programme suggests-despite denials-that they have adopted the basic formulations of Leninism and that the "plain communist" GCG is remarkably similar to such "left communist" groups as the Internationaal Communist Current (ICC) and the International Bureau for a revolutionary Party (IBRP). All this isn't to disparage the insights one finds in some of the essays in the "Communism List," two of which appeared in DB110. The two pages below contain a very small part of the 38-page GCG Programme available on the internet at http://homepage.eircom.net/~beprepared/FIST%20Programme.htm -fg]

The Communist Think-Tank

The Global Communist Group Web Site

WHAT WE ARE

The Global Communist Group is a group dedicated to the development of communist theory and politics. This means that it is not a Leninist organisation. Nor does it subscribe to any of Leninism's other forms such as its Stalinism and Trotskyism. It is not anarchist. It is not left nor right. It is just communist. Our group continues to be significantly influenced by the doctrines and politics of Karl Marx. However, it is not a marxist group but plain communist.

Our position is that no revolutionary communist movement exists today globally, regionally or nationally. Revolutionary communist theory and politics has not essentially superseded the level attained by Karl Marx. Consequently revolutionary theory and politics is in urgent need of development beyond the level reached in the latter part of the 19th century. This means that a revolutionary communist intelligentsia must be established to reexamine and develop communist theory and politics. It is just this that the Global Communist Group seeks to achieve.

The web site will contain the work of the Global Communist Group. It is hoped that this web site will be improved and developed over time.

A comprehensive account as to what we stand for is contained in our communist programme, the Global Communist Programme available on this site. Should you wish to seek further information or engage in discussion with the group contact Karl Carlile at the following email address: dagda@eircomnet . We also have our Communism List a forum for the discussion of theoretical and political matters. To join you can make your request to the moderator at communism-admin@lists.ecpnutake_4

THE GLOBAL COMMUNIST GROUP PROGRAMME

1. Introduction
3. The crisis of proletarian leadship
4. Stalinism and Neo-Colonialism
5. A programme of communist demands
6. Women and the working class
7. Racial oppression
8, Expropriation and nationalisation
9. The national question in the neo-colonies
10. Agrarian revolution in the neo-colonies
12. Strategy and tactics in the neo-colonies
13. The working class and the guerrilla strategy
15. Bourgeois democracy and democratic demands
16. The trade unions
17. Workers' control and workplace committees
18. From picket line defence to the workers militia
20. For the break up of the armed might of the state
21. The insurrection
22. For a revolutionary communist international

The Programme of the Global Communist Group

Given the global character of capitalism it is necessary for communists to build a world' revolutionary party. Our objective is the creation of a new world party of communist revolution. To build such a party a communist programme is indispensable. T'he goal of the.communist party is the revolutionary destruction of capitalism and its replacement with a world communist federal community.

As revolutionary communists we are not anarchists nor Leninists. Neither are we Leninists of the Stalinist or Trotskyist variety. We- are just communists. We actively support the need for a communist programme and communist party.

1. Introduction

The communist programme is central to communist politics. The programme is an expression of the essence of communist struggle. It is the form by which theory and concrete practice give expression to their integrated unity. Communism has an inherent programmatic character.

The communist programme consists of a set of aims together with, an outline and elaboration of the means by which these aims can be achieved.. All communist programmes, independently of any particular conjuncture in which they are lodged, have as their goal the establishment of communist relations. The programmatic means cannot be inconsistent with the ultimate aim of achieving communist relations of production. Strategic and tactical action can never compromise principled communist politics. Various principled tactics such as workplace committees, the united front, strikes and picketing, workers' councils and workers' militias are deployed under many different circumstances as a means to promote and develop mass mobilization on a principled revolutionary basis. The communist programme embodies the strategic goals of communism. It focuses on the practical tasks flowing from these fundamental principles based on the concrete historical conditions that obtain in capitalist society at any given time. It embodies the strategy and tactics to achieve the general goals and does not separate these questions off from programmatic aims.

2. The minimum-maximum programme [....]