It is important to point out that the political positions adopted by the Montreal Internationalist Communists represent only a basic summary in light of thorough ongoing discussions, between other parties, in order to equip us with an organisational platform. In fact, aiming for the greatest precision, these basic positions remain open to modification. In addition, the broad outline has been taken and forms, in general the true historical corpus of the proletarian political camp and is, in fact, non negotiable. As well, they are for now, first and foremost, a working tool for our group.

Basic positions of Montreal International Communists

* The October 1917 revolution in Russia took the first step toward real communist world revolution in the international revolutionary wave, putting an end to the imperialist war, and lasted a few years. The failure of that revolutionary wave, particularly in Germany in 1919-23, condemned the revolution in Russia to isolation and rapid degeneration. Stalinism put into place during the 20’s and thereafter, created not communism but state capitalism centrally planned according to the doctrine of “socialism in one country��? that we reject.

* Since the First World War, capitalism has been a social system in decline. It no longer has anything of progressive value to offer. It has twice plunged humanity into a barbaric cycle of crisis, world war, reconstruction, and new crisis. The theory of decadence is a point of view in dynamic movement that makes it possible to foresee the direction that world capitalism seeks to take.

* The ex-countries of Eastern Europe, China, North Korea, Cuba, etc., have never been communist despite bourgeois propaganda. That was and still is, for some, countries under a specific form of state capitalism.

* We view the trade unions as organizations bound by a thousand and one threads to the state by laws, subsidies and dialogues. To change the leadership directions of the trade unions or attempt to transform the unions is impossible insofar as their links to the state are organic. This implies the renunciation rejection of the red or anarchist trade unions.

* We reject such tactics of “united front��?, “popular front��? and “anti-fascist fronts��?. All these tactics enmesh the interests of the proletariat with those of bourgeois fractions whatever they may be, and are ultimately used to divert the working class from its revolutionary objectives.

* All nationalist ideologies, of “national independence��?, of “right of self determination��?, whatever their pretext, ethnic, historical, religious, etc., are a real drug for the workers. They aim to make them party to one faction or other of the bourgeoisie, lead them to pit one group of workers against the other, enabling them to go to war.

* The working class is the only class capable of making the communist revolution. The revolutionary struggle of necessity leads the working class into a confrontation with the capitalist state. To destroy capitalism, the working class will have to overthrow all the states and establish the dictatorship of the proletariat on a worldwide scale – the international power of the workers councils, gathering together the whole proletariat.

* “Self-management��? and the “nationalization��? of the economy are not the means to overthrow capitalism and progress to lead to a communist society. Communism requires the conscious abolition by the working class of capitalist social relationships and the creation of a society without the State, without class, without money, without national borders or professional standing armies.

*A first step towards this goal is the revolutionary political organization of the class consciousness proletariat and uniting us into an international political party. The role of this party will not be to seize power in the name of the working class, but to participate take part in the unification of the its struggles, thus controlled by the workers themselves, and in the spread/dissemination of the communist program. Only the working class in its totality, through its own autonomous bodies, can institute socialism. This task cannot be delegated, not even to the most conscious and capable of class parties.

* We see our mandate to intervene as often as possible, according to our real forces, within our class, in order to participate in the exchange of ideas in the clarification of the proletarian program, and in building the revolutionary party.

Postal address:
CIM_ICM,
C.P. 55514,
Succ. Maisonneuve,
Montreal,QC
H1W 0A1