WORKERS’ RESOURCE CENTRE
Programme
The programme of the Workers’ Resource Centre is based
on fulfilling the needs of the communist and workers’ movement.
At this time, in our estimation, these needs take certain
definite forms.
The crisis of the capitalist system is intensifying, and in
this present stage of capitalism, the pay-the-rich economy, the anti-social
offensive, the programme of privatisation, neo-liberalism and globalisation, is
exacerbating all the underlying contradictions. In this situation, RCPB(ML) has
as its slogan that there is a way out of the crisis. It is to build a
pro-social programme, which is summed up in the rallying call to Stop Paying
the Rich – Increase Investments in Social Programmes! Through taking
this programme through to the end, a path will be opened up, a line of march,
to a socialist Britain, with a planned economy where the workers control what
they produce and where the people hold sovereign power.
The needs of the communist and workers’ movement lie
both in developing the pro-social programme to achieve its aim and in building
the conditions whereby the line of march will give rise to a socialist Britain.
In fulfilling these needs the workers and other sections of society need
resources, both human and material. The programme of the Workers’ Resource
Centre is geared to this end.
In particular, therefore, the programme of the
Workers’ Resource Centre is geared to two things. One is to provide
resources for the development of the pro-social programme, elaborating what are
the solutions to the problems of that society is faced with in the course of
exposing how this society pays the rich and what are the blocks to the further
development of society. The second is to provide resources for the
establishing, organising and development of groups of writers and
disseminators, who set their own agenda arising from their own experience,
raising the level of discussion on this agenda, so that within the programme of
the working class to lift society out of the crisis, the subjective conditions
for revolution are created.
We call on workers, youth, women, to assist in building the
Workers’ Resource Centre. We call on all activists of RCPB(ML) to
formulate their views in the course of their work on how the Workers’
Resource Centre can best be developed to assist in the organising of groups of
writers and disseminators of Workers’ Weekly and Workers’
Daily Internet Edition.
Material Resources of the Workers’ Centre
(i) A workers’ library of the classics of
Marxism-Leninism, as well as other contemporary communist and progressive
literature from Britain and around the world; material on the International
Communist Movement, and the history and development of the workers’ and
communist movement world-wide; theoretical and other material.
(ii) Research material and resources.
(iii) Photocopying and computer facilities.
(iv) Equipment for the production of pamphlets; and the
publication of the WRC’s own pamphlets.
(v) The WRC will develop its capacity to provide Internet
availability, a database of facts, figures and articles, training on DTP
programmes, and full-time director.
Human and Informational, and Research and Investigative
Resources of the Resource Centre
(i) Discussion on the problems connected with the communist
and workers’ movement, aspects of Contemporary Marxist-Leninist Thought,
and questions of organising.
(ii) Ongoing work of research and investigation on:
a) The Pay-the-Rich Economy and the Socialist Planned
Economy
National debt; Bank of England, other banks and other
financial institutions; Militarisation and the arms trade; Private Finance
Initiative; National and international trade; Inward and outward investment;
Monopolisation and mergers; Jobs and income; Working conditions; Social
programmes and the anti-social offensive; etc.
b) The Unrepresentative and Archaic Political Processes and
Institutions and Democratic Renewal and Modern Sovereign States
Political processes and institutions; The need for a modern
constitution; The need for modern sovereign states; People’s empowerment;
Rights and duties of citizens and residents; Anti-social and anti-working-class
legislation, etc.
c) International Relations and Struggles of the Peoples
Internationally
Economic, political and military blocs such as the EU, the
WTO and NATO; International financial institutions, such as the IMF;
Britain’s role in and relationship to these blocs; Britain’s colonial
and neo-colonial relations; The UN and its democratisation; Values governing
international relations; Struggles of the peoples internationally and the
experience of those peoples building the social systems of their choice, such
as Cuba and the DPRK; etc.
(iii) Ideological and theoretical work, such as on social
democracy and the "Third Way".
(iv) The WRC will also develop its capacity to provide advice
and resources for the differently abled.
(v) The WRC can also assist in providing modern music,
poetry and other forms of culture which will contribute to the struggles of the
workers and others in motion in opening the door to progress.
