This new pamphlet brings together the statement from the Party's 2009 Congress with those from two former Congresses in 2003 and 2006. Also included is a statement on the European Union: "The fascist dream of a united Europe resurrected".
(The title link only includes the statement from the 2009 congress)
The pamphlet represents a decade of thought and analysis of the situation in Britain, and considers how to move forward as a British working class.
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A Political statement adopted at the 14th Congress of the CPBML
At the previous congress (see below) the Party laid out an analysis of the state of Britain and the class which has been utterly borne out by events. The questions for us to consider now are: Where do we go from here? What has changed? How do we strike out for a future?
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Any worker reflecting on events today will see unbridled US aggression, record job losses in Britain's manufacturing base, chaos in our schools and hospitals, the further undermining of our sovereignty by unceasing European Union integration. This Party considers these problems in the light of these key principles...
A Political statement adopted at the 13th Congress of the CPBML in April 2003
The situation facing workers in Britain today is as grave as at any time in our history. Capitalism, the social system which replaced feudalism, was born here, and now, five hundred years later, is dying before our eyes. British workers made Britain the workshop of the world, and made capitalism seem synonymous with manufacture. That capitalism is now in terminal decay, unable to feed, clothe, house, provide work for or meet the needs of the people of this country. From seeming synonymous with manufacture, capital is now its antithesis.
On May Day 1997 the British working class uprooted the political power we had vested in Thatcher. Where have we come since then...and where are we going? This document was adopted at the Reconvened 12th Congress of the CPB(ML), October 2000. Also available as PDF (708K)
The British Working Class and Its Party has been for almost 30 years the programme of the CPBML. It was adopted at our Second Congress, in 1971. It has been supplemented over the years by a number of documents, but the basic principles remain. It is prefaced by comments written at the time by our founding Chairman, Reg Birch, and with an updated introduction written in January 2001.
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