Programmatic Points for Your Party

International Socialist League

For an independent workers party based on a democratic, fighting mass movement! No alliances with capitalist parties! We are not parliamentarians we are for socialist revolution as the only way out of the crisis of the working class and destruction of the world’s climate

We must build a party that creates safe spaces a far as possible under capitalism. It must support Palestine and fights all levels of racism and oppression, we welcome immigrants and asylum seekers. Expose the lies of the far right and fascists and defeat them.

Palestine

• build the mass movement for the liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea, to end of the racist state of Israel in the heat of the struggle against genocide – the only solution for peace in the middle east. End British military and arms support to Israel.
• involve the working class in direct action, such as boycotting the shipment of weapons and other goods to Israel.
• defend the student movement and their democratic rights to oppose complicity with Israel.
• sever trade and diplomatic relations with Israel.
• for a free democratic secular Palestine!

Stop attacks on immigrants and refugees – end all oppression

• open borders and the immediate closure of immigrant detention camps and the use of hotels as prison centres. Support the right to defend ourselves from racist and fascist violence.
• mass mobilisation of broad social forces, including the labour movement ranks to defeat the fascists and far right mobilisations.
• stop all deportations now! Equal rights for migrants!
• dismantle the racist police and the criminal “justice” system! Reparations and self-determination! End the legacy of colonialism and imperialism!
• No One Is Illegal

Defend unions and workers’ right to organize!

• the fight against capitalism needs a united struggle of the organised and unorganised, of the documented and undocumented respecting the autonomy of all the progressive groups. Defend all workers to build a mass fight for civil rights and to build the democratic left inside the class struggle of unions and communities.
• support all union strikes and picket lines including all precarious and immigrant workers such as UVW and IWGB.

Public ownership of the NHS and social care

• for a fully comprehensive, integrated, publicly accountable and publicly provided, free at the point of delivery NHS, based on need without privatised franchises.

Public Education

• Re-nationalise the NHS and social care under the control of workers and users.
• For full public education, end the privatisations, controlled by teachers and the communities outside of the profit motive.

Housing has to be a human right for all including the youth.

• removing most council houses meant, over decades, spiralling prices and a deepening housing crisis. Homelessness significantly affects young and poor workers.
• ban no-fault evictions and the end of the bedroom tax. We demand the strict regulation of the use of bailiffs, and a change in the law to demand all rented homes must be maintained by their owners to a decent standard.
• we call for the end of ground rents, and a party led review of the freehold/leasehold system.
• rents have to be controlled. National construction firms have to be nationalised under workers control and affordable and decent social housing has to be created.

End all forms of oppression

• support the struggles of those who are specially oppressed under capitalism, those people who experience sexism, racism, ableism, and or cis-heterosexism.
• build these movements to end all this oppression with a class-struggle perspective so that such movements can articulate their own demands and develop political consciousness as a group.
• we must support all their economic, political and social demands. We must also resist any attempts to try and create a false narrative of the need to choose people supporting one group of working-class people over another.
• we can and must support all progressive struggles of the working class. Full civil and human rights for all peoples!

Climate crisis

• climate change is one of the biggest threats that humanity face today. “Green capitalism” and individual consumer choices are entirely insufficient to tackle the catastrophe facing the planet. Capitalism must be abolished and replaced with a planned socialist economy based upon renewable energy, mass transit, and the shared and carefully planned use of resources for the public good. As a major step toward that goal, the energy industry needs to be nationalised.
• Racism and imperialism are welded to the climate crisis and hit the global south extreme hard
• for climate justice! Public and workers ownership of the energy industry under workers’ and community control to achieve emergency conversion to 100% renewable energy!

Right to self -determination

• the ‘United Kingdom’ is an imperialist, colonial power, and we defend the right to self-determination for the peoples of British colonies. We call for the right of self-determination of Scotland and Wales; areas like the Malvinas to be handed back to where they were stolen. We call for a united Ireland.
• support the Ukrainian national struggle for independence and for the defeat of Putin’s Russian invasion. End plundering of Ukraine by the USA and intrigues by the EU and Britain. Every oppressed nation has the right to defend itself like Palestine and Ukraine and obtain arms from where it can.
• support all the national liberation struggles in Europe, Africa, Latin America, middle east and Asia, anywhere there are oppressed peoples under the boot of one or many imperialisms

No capitalist control but workers’ control for socialism

• countless examples exist of super wealth, that has been extracted by means of wage slavery and even slavery today from the working class at home and internationally. We must build a tax system that makes it impossible for anyone to hoard any significant amount of wealth. We must fully fund and fully nationalise all public services.
• the UK is in a deep political and economic crisis. The rapid sell-off of public assets has meant that critical infrastructure—including railways, water utilities, and energy networks—are often controlled by foreign investors with profit maximisation, rather than public welfare, as their primary objective.
• public ownership, under worker class control of all public services, big industry, transport, and the banks! For a workers and people’s government and a planned economy!

A new working class party must aim for the building of a socialist world! To achieve that we are for the socialist revolution!