The political proposal of the New Left Current - NAR

The political proposal of N.A.R. consists of three linked targets:

a) Anticapitalist Revolution, with a communist-internationalist content.

b) Anticapitalist Labour Front in society as the main field where revolutionary policy is   exercised.

c) Ideological - political - structural reconstitution - reestablishment of the communist labour movement.

More specifically:

a) The character of the revolution in Greece will be anticapitalist with a communist – Internationalist content. We believe that the defense of the interests of the working people and the improvement of their position is impossible unless it is part of a more general subversive anticapitalist struggle, of a permanent revolutionary struggle, unless it aims at the subversion of bourgeois hegemony. For us, the immediate political goal and the tactics of the working class must be the abolition of the contrast between capital and labour (in the interest of the latter). At the same time the anticapitalist struggle must have the communist perspective in its core, that is, it must tend towards the full liberation of society. Especially today when everything is determined by the capitalist internationalization of economic-political-social life, by central or peripheral capitalist integrations (EU, IMF, NAFTA, etc) internationalism must be a vital element and not an outer factor of the anticapitalist struggle everywhere. In that direction we consider that communism can be realized only internationally, although revolutions can win in separate countries.

 

b) The Anticapitalist Labour Front – which is our political proposal- constitutes the unity of the most different anticapitalist forces and political tendencies, of all those who fight (partly or fully) for the anticapitalist subversion, of the emancipating tendency of the working class. It is a unity whose central issue is to bring to light revolution as an immediate political target. That’s why this front is the meeting point of very different forces of the conscious political struggle, of the revolutionary forces in general, and of the working class itself and of its struggles.

The Anticapitalist Labour Front is not a political proposal for the alliance of parties, nor the political expression of a social alliance. It is the practical process of linking strategy with tactics, it is the meeting of all partial different struggles, movements and initiatives which can and must express the genuine labour interests. Its basis in society is the partial anticapitalist action-programs (ex. goals and the program of struggle for education, anticapitalist program for the social and economic goals of the class, etc). The movements and struggles developing on such programs finally meet and express the Anticapitalist Labour Front in society.

 

c) The process of the anticapitalist revolution and communist liberation cannot develop without the “intervention” of the conscious forces of the labour political struggle, nor without their organized expression or their interaction with the working class. The effort to reconstitute the revolutionary party is the following in our opinion:

1. The party is one aspect (the decisive one) of the broader and independent agent of revolutionary struggle, together with the subversive elements of the labour movement, the left anticapitalist wings of the movements and fields and the Anticapitalist Labour Front (them being the primary aspects).

2. The party contributes to the process of making the working class a class for itself. The party aims at the restoration of the dialectic unity of the political and social subject of the revolution on a more advanced level. After all, the party is fighting for its replacement by the “party-class”.

3. The party with future its horizon: that is, the abolition of classes, the abolition of the difference between those who govern and those who are governed, the abolition of power in general, of the parties and of politics and their replacement by the domination of the social  human individual.

The party is born from the pioneers of the class and thought. It is a party fueling and fueled by the struggles, it is linked to the ideology and the strategy of communism, it forms pioneering sections of revolutionaries and tries to unite the working majority. It holds a critical and dialectic approach to theory and without doctrines, it penetrates all scientific fields trying to come to modern conclusions and analyses, not as an autonomous isolated process but in the society interacting with all the left potential.

 
3.  THE COMMUNIST PERSPECTIVE
 
The term “communism” must be reestablished, especially since the double experience of victory and defeat of the revolutions and also today’s phenomena of disintegration such as  “pink communists” and reformist communist parties (like the Communist Party of China, where there is capitalism, or other parties and organisations that speak in the name of the revolution/communism but in reality they support bourgeois governments).
We discuss 5 fundamental principles:

a) Communism is the real motion starting today and not some future far away “paradise”. We refer to the new relation between strategy and tactics.

b) The communist proposal is mostly the critical analysis and practical refusal of the modern capitalist brutality. From this point of view, we consider the goal of communism more timely than ever, as the only perhaps way out of the capitalist dead ends (from human and labour  needs’ point of view).

c) The communist proposal is the historical and practical criticism and self-criticism of all the previous social revolutions and of the course of the movement in the East and the West, based on our experience and the needs of today and the future.

d) The communist proposal is the effort to interpret society, it is a “plan” of the future, of “the real motion that destroys the capitalist order”. We must not allow communism to be identified as the faddish non-socialist regimes of Eastern Europe, nor should we confer it to “afterlife expectations”.

e) The communist proposal demands the revolutionary re-composition of Marxism, of the theory of communism in its various aspects and on the whole, that is nature, society, history, social struggle from the point of view of the contemporary scientific achievements and of the revolutionary and political needs of the working class today. We do not refer to a dogmatic approach of theory, nor to a supposedly “reviewing” but deeply compromising process.

 
4.  THE INTERVENTION OF THE N.A.R.  TODAY
 
In the current political situation in Greece, N.A.R. promotes the immediate need of the development of a left political current and a political and social overturning movement.
For the overturn of the attack of the capital against the working people and the youth. For an anticapitalist answer to the capitalist crisis, from the workings’  people view. In order to overturn the agreement of the government – EU – IMF – capital, to overthrow all the measures – laws that have been imposed to Greece, in the name if the debt, the crisis and the attack of the capital generally. In order to overthrow the government of PASOK and any other future government that will implement the same policy.
- Cancelation of the debt! The capital should pay the crisis, not the workers! Disobedience against IMF and EU directives – Exit form the Euro zone and the EMU – Struggle for the anticapitalist exit from the EU.

Against the policy of austerity, privatizations in education, health, social security, against dismissals and the abolition of the rights of the working people. For the overturning of the government as the result of massive subversive struggles and not its replacement by other «centre left» or «centre right» variations.

Against the European Union, the European alliance of the multinational capital, that is, especially against the “program of convergence” and the Maastricht and Lisbon Treaties. We have a clear stance against the EU. In our opinion it is not possible to ‘reform’ the EU, the only way is the fight of the workers in each country for the anticapitalist exit from the EU and the common internationalist struggle for the dismantling of the EU.

Against the war games of imperialists, against the bloodshed promised to the peoples by nationalism, against the competition of the ruling classes of Greece and Turkey and also against class reconciliation and “national unity” the bourgeois offer us. Against the interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and anywhere else. Against the Greek participation in the imperialist interventions and the expeditionary military forces.

- This current must be based on the resistance and the outbreaks of people and it must move them to the left.

- This current must confront the Left that is compromised with the status quo, the Left that proposes governmental supposedly democratic answers, the Left that has accepted the basic myths and stereotypes of capitalism, the Left that actually functions as an army of potential recruits for the system, the Left of the «anti – neoliberal fronts», of the partial «improvement» suggestions.