Revolution In Our Lifetime!
WHO WE ARE
The Revolutionary Communist Organisation (RCO) sees the current dogmatic socialist movement as hopelessly divided and immature. How can we hope to win more workers over to communist politics when we can not agree on a common message, demands, and plan for action? We believe that socialist militants must group together our resources, rather than divide them into dozens of petty sectarian groups.
We are a communist pre-party fighting group who believe that the most important next step for socialist militants in Australia is re-grouping and re-uniting into a single communist party. This party must have real internal democracy, with open debates and internal factions. It must not be a coalition of sectarian groups, or a wishy-washy "broad-left" front. It must be a majoritarian democratic centralist vanguard organisation united around a common program for action, rather than agreement with a narrow set of theoretical principles or self-identification with "socialism".
The RCO itself has a program, internal democracy, and open factions. We practice unity in action and freedom of criticism. We are drawn from a variety of socialist tendencies and life experiences, and we are united by our iron-clad determination to resist capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy and unite with proletarian resistance wherever it appears.
Our aim is to convince other socialist groups and militants of this strategy. Divided as we are, we cannot ignore the current state of our movement or skip over the pre-existing socialist groups. We must unite it!
WHAT WE STAND FOR
From our Points of Unity:
We are communists. The capitalist mode of production has brought humanity to the brink of catastrophe. Only the communist movement - the real movement to abolish the present conditions of life and secure a society without the state, markets, classes or money - can save humanity from the tyranny, hunger, poverty, despair, boredom and anxiety of capitalist existence.
We are committed communists, influenced by the vital and critical tradition within Marxism. We are fighting for a revolutionary party, a communist party that can place social, economic, and political struggles on the offensive against capital and the state.
Unity of Action requires a common political outlook. Freedom of Criticism requires freedom of thought and debate. The consequence of these facts requires political unity around a concrete program of political tasks be made the core of communist organising. The proliferation of doctrinaire sects which profess a specific factional outlook is a consequence of the immaturity of the socialist movement, and it is a hindrance that must be overcome through unity around a common program.
WHAT WE DO
We are an organisation of communist militants. That means all of us actively participate in and contribute to the life of the organisation, struggling together for our common aims. We are a democratic organisation that embraces freedom of debate and dissent, while still unified by our common cause and program.
We strive to be active in every sphere of working-class resistance, from the street to the unions, from campuses to workplaces, from welfare to housing, the liberation struggles of women, first nations Australians, migrants, and queer workers; all while also emphasising consistent political education, consciousness-raising, and revolutionary agitation.
We are not tailing the social movements looking for recruits, nor are we opportunists looking for the next chance to turn towards electoral politics. We are not cynical and we do not hide our allegiances - we are revolutionaries!