The Line of March to a New Society: Summing Up the Objective Situation

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Seminar: "There Is A Way Out of the Crisis"
The Line of March to a New Society: Summing Up the Objective Situation

In resolving to adopt the fighting call: Stop Paying the Rich – Increase Investments in Social Programmes! the Third Congress of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) recognised that this call sums up the independent pro-social programme with which the working class politically unites the people to overcome the crisis.

RCPB(ML) assesses that now is a crucial time in the line of march of the united front of the working class and its allies, in the context of the national and international situation. In this connection, it is holding a seminar on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of RCPB(ML) and the 15th anniversary of the launch of its general line for this period, "There Is a Way Out of the Crisis". This seminar will address the general line of RCPB(ML) in a number of papers, to facilitate discussion on the tasks facing the Party, the working class and the people, and on the way forward in participating in the political life of the country.

In this week leading up to the seminar on Saturday, March 14, in London, WDIE is posting documents of the Party so that the participants in the event can study and prepare. Today we are posting the text of the second chapter of "The Line of March to a New Society", the Political Report to the Third Congress on the Work of the Central Committee. The Third Congress of the Party was held in London from March 19-21, 1999.

The three chapters of the Report are entitled: "Standing Firmly on Our Own Feet"; "Summing Up the Objective Situation"; and "The Challenge We Accept". The document also contains the Resolutions adopted by the Third Congress.

The Congress in its resolutions affirmed that the main elements of the pro-social programme are:

• In the economic sphere, a moratorium on servicing and repaying the national debt to the financiers; an end to the militarisation of the economy; increasing investments in education, health care and other social programmes.
• In the political sphere, people’s empowerment through the democratic renewal of the political process and institutions, with a modern constitution drafted with full participation of the people which vests sovereignty in the people; modern sovereign states of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland and a free and equal union between them if they so desire.
• Internationally, the dismantling of the EU and of NATO, and all such economic/political and military alliances based on big power domination; an end to Britain’s colonial and neo-colonial relations and its intervention in the internal affairs of other countries; democratisation of international affairs; the recognition of the right of all peoples of the world to live according to the social system of their choice.
• Support for all people fighting for the same abroad.

To access Chapter II, please click Summing Up the Objective Situation.