Our Basic Positions

  • The emancipation of mankind lies in socialism. The objective conditions to organise socialism on a world scale exist. The proletariat is the only genuine revolutionary class that has the ability and the potential of putting an end to capitalism which drags mankind to destruction.
  • Socialism is a classless and stateless society which cannot be built on a local or national scale but only on a world scale. The so-called theory of 'socialism in one country' imposed by Stalinism and its manifestation of 'national socialism' in practice has been proved by historical experience to be a reactionary utopia.
  • The workers' power created by the October Revolution was overthrown as a result of a counterrevolution carried out through a variety of stages by the Stalin-led bureaucracy, and a despotic-bureaucratic regime was established.
  • What is collapsed in the USSR and the likes is not socialism or a workers' state, but despotic-bureaucratic regimes.
  • Capitalism cannot be rectified and transformed into socialist society through reforms. If one excludes the countries which are in a state of exceptional backwardness where the proletariat cannot yet play an independent role, the target of a workers' power is quite possible and must be defended. The idea of posing various stages prior to this target must be rejected.
  • Proletarian revolution is a permanent revolution. Successive conquests, essentially in the advanced capitalist countries, are needed for the world proletarian revolution to proceed and workers' powers to survive. Capitalism cannot be decisively defeated unless it is overthrown in its main centres.
  • A workers' state is a state without bureaucracy, i.e. the self-organisation of workers in a direct democracy. A political power that is not based on the direct democracy of the workers organised in the form of councils, soviets and that does not reflect their actual rule cannot be a real workers' state, whatever it calls itself.
  • If the proletarian revolution is isolated in one country for a long time, the overthrow of revolutionary workers' power and the liquidation of the transition period is inevitable.
  • Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism, is the reign of finance-capital all over the world. The globalisation which is pictured as a new or different phase of capitalism, is in reality nothing but imperialism which is an international system of exploitation.
  • It is absolutely wrong to use the concepts of colony, semi-colony and neo-colony for the countries which achieved their political independence, i.e. which have built their own bourgeois nation-states, and are less developed or middle ranking capitalist countries.
  • The language of anti-imperialism devoid of anti-capitalism is just the eyewash of bourgeois and petty bourgeois tendencies who defend nationalism.
  • The wars provoked by the imperialist countries for the purpose of division of the spheres of influence are unjust wars. The correct attitude towards such wars is not to support the war of 'one's own' bourgeoisie against the bourgeoisie of the other country, wage a 'national' war in the same front together with it, but to mobilise the toiling masses along the lines of proletarian revolution.
  • The national liberation wars developing on the basis of the national independence struggle of oppressed nations are just wars supported by the proletariat. The right of self-determination of oppressed nations is, in essence, the right to found a separate state.
  • The working class opposes every kind of social inequality and oppression. The revolutionary programme of the working class defends the rights of the oppressed sex and contains a struggle against the destruction of nature by the capitalist system. Proletarian revolution is the only means to solve all these problems.
  • Under capitalism trade unions are the most important mass organisations of the working class. To return the unions to the level of fighting mass organisations cannot be achieved by abandoning the unions using the present problems as an excuse, but by entering the struggle to solve the problems without succumbing to the pressure of these problems.
  • The emancipation of working class can only be the task of the working class itself. But to achieve the revolutionary political organisation of the class, a vanguard organisation equipped with Marxist theory is needed, striving tirelessly for this end within the class movement.
  • If the revolutionary internationalist content of the proletariat's struggle for emancipation is not understood correctly and a proper struggle cannot be organised on the international level, then the revolutionary efforts limited to national level will turn out to be fruitless. That is, world proletarian revolution cannot be conceived without an International.