Overview of political activities of RCPB(ML)
Submitted to the Electoral Commission for the year 2024

The Party continued its work on the basis of its general line and programme for this period of its work set out at its 4th Congress held in 2003, and on the basis of its overall line laid down at the 3rd Congress in 1999.

The work of the Party is concerned with the urgent need for a change in the direction of society and the economy. This is the call of history which the Party is answering. It requires the democratic renewal of the political process and institutions, mobilising the working class and people to take up this task. The cutting edge of this work at present is the challenge to bring into being an anti-war government in Britain with a modern democratic personality. This is a profound conception encompassing a government which is also pro-social and pro-worker. Out of the resistance struggles of society, and guided by the theory of Modern Communism, will come the outlook of the New. This is a new framework which has fidelity to the ensemble of human relations, humanising the natural and social environments, and recognising that the need for political power is indispensable. It is an internationalist framework, working to bring into being a world of socialised humanity.

The political work of the Party in intervening in the life of the country in 2024 has been carried out in this framework that the old forms and institutions have become obsolete, but the necessary new forms and institutions for empowering the people have to be brought into being. The solution that it has encouraged the working people to take up is that of speaking in their own name. The movement of working people to say that “Enough Is Enough” has been transforming the consciousness of working people that they themselves have the solution to the crisis. With the proxy war against Russia in the Ukraine, the Party has emphasised that the main blow of the anti-war movement must be against NATO and its provocations. The Party has paid particular attention since October 7, 2023, in standing with Palestine and the Palestinian resistance, insisting that there must be a ceasefire and that the Israeli genocide be stopped, condemning the complicity of the British government. RCPB(ML) throughout the country has participated with the masses of the people in the manifestations of standing shoulder to shoulder with the Palestinian people.

The crisis has underlined that it is necessary for the communist movement to further develop its theoretical work, and has demonstrated that the “covenant thesis” on which the old political system is based, with “representatives” authorised to speak in the name of the electorate, is disempowering.

It also placed an important focus on improving the content and extending the readership of its online newspaper “Workers’ Weekly” in these circumstances.

The Party and its supporters continued their efforts to intervene in the important movements of the working class and people, mobilise the youth, and support the struggles in defence of the rights of all. It also continued to pay attention to its internationalist duties, including strengthening its ties in the international communist movement.