7/03/2008

Summary of the founding principles! 

• For the use of Marxist method to analyse global capitalism and its effects on the working class and to devise a programme for a planned democratic socialist society against the market.  Be honest and bold with Marxist ideas.
• For internationalism and the re-building of a Marxist Workers’ International. For the maximum solidarity with workers in struggle throughout the world.
• Socialism can only come through the self-emancipation of the working class.  This means a political struggle for the fullest possible democracy against capitalism and within the workers’ movement – the Trade Unions and socialist parties.  For the accountability and recallability of leaders and for full liberty of tendency, platform and faction.  Against bureaucracy, elites and the bureaucratic centralism of the sects.
• We recognise that social democracy collaborates with capitalism.  Reformism is a dead strategy and we are against attempts to pretend to be reformists or to put forward any notion of intermediate stages towards socialism.
• We recognise the counter-revolutionary and anti-human nature of the Stalinist regimes and Parties.  We seek to undo the damage done to Marxism by Stalinism.
• We recognise that the continuation of capitalism threatens the future of humanity and the planet – for example in wars, poverty, disease, ecological disaster and the exhaustion of resources.
• The CNMP will have a membership structure and will encourage members to participate in the broader working class movement against collaborationist policies and for the programme of working class political power.