The Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) held its 16th Congress in late 2012, a coming together of the Party to consider the state of Britain and what needs to happen in the future.
It is now 44 years since the Party was formed, and 41 years since, at its Second Congress, the Party produced its Programme The British Working Class and Its Party. This Programme outlined the thinking of a political party of a new type, a thoroughly British Marxist party. All subsequent Congresses have confirmed the ideas of the Programme, using them as the basis for developing our thought for the changing times.
At our 16th Congress, the Party adopted a number of Calls to Action for the British working class.
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Our 15th Congress is timely with events in Britain and around the world unfolding extremely rapidly. The British government and the capitalist class internationally want us to believe that the working class cannot change anything, everything is beyond our control. We think differently.
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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.
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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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