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Manifesto for World Revolution

October 2003

All history proves that the capitalists will never relinquish their property peacefully – to claim otherwise in the age of ‘Shock and Awe’ is either hopeless naivety or wilful deception. There is only one way: their apparatus of state repression must be overthrown by force. The capitalists’ monopoly of military power – armies, police and security forces, prison systems, civil servants, judiciaries – must be smashed to pieces and replaced with the rule of the working people themselves.

This can be done – the majority of humanity can cast off the tiny minority of parasites. It will take mass organisation, an unambiguous strategy and, when the hour strikes, courageous and ruthless action.

Some may baulk at this, but the alternative to revolution is not decades of undisturbed peace. Basing a global civilisation on the empowerment of a few thousand and the impoverishment of six billion is like lodging depth charges in the planetary core. If the logic of capitalism is left to unfold, our world will be torn apart by starvation, disease, poverty, environmental catastrophe, and war.

In the struggle against capitalism, greater energy is equivalent to greater humanity. For with the suppression of our exploiters and an end to the tyranny of profit, human history can truly begin.

Contents

Preface
The US empire’s war on the poor
Globalisation – the latest stage of imperialism
The Universal Class
Trade unions and the onslaught of globalisation
The Trade Union Bureaucracy
Social Democracy
Stalinism
The Anticapitalist Movement
The Old Illusions of the New Anarchists
Populism against the people
Islamism – an anti-imperialist force?
The nature of transitional demands
Globalisation from below
Destroy the IMF, World Bank and WTO
Fight inflation and deflation
The scourge of unemployment
Social ownership and planned economy
Transform the trade unions
Workers’ control and the fight against business secrecy
Reclaim our environment
Strategy and tactics in the semi-colonies
Revolution in the countryside
National liberation
Tear up racism by its roots
Women’s liberation
Free sexuality from state and religion
Liberation for the youth
The struggle against fascism
Against militarism and imperialist war
The state
Democratic rights
Defending our struggles – preparing our power
A government of the workers and poor peasants
Workers’ councils and the struggle for working class power
The insurrection
A revolution against the state
Forward to the formation of a Fifth International – a new Global Party of Socialist Revolution

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