A new programme for world socialist revolution, 19891 The objective basis of the socialist revolution
2 The crisis of proletarian leadership
3 A programme of transitional demands
4 Strategy and tactics in the semi-colonies
5 The political and social revolution against Stalinism and capitalist restoration
6 The fight against social oppression
7 For a revolutionary communist international
In April 1984 at a conference in London, the Movement for a Revolutionary Communist International (MRCI) was established. Its origins lay in a long period of discussion and collaboration,first between the Workers Power Group in Britain, the Irish Workers Group and, from the spring of 1982, the Gruppe Arbeitermacht in the Federal Republic of Germany. In the spring of 1984 Pouvoir Ouvrier was founded, an event which encouraged the four groups to establish the MRCI at Easter 1984.
To mark the formation of the MRCI the four groups adopted a "Declaration of Fraternal Relations". Convinced that there was no revolutionary continuity in the Trotskyist movement after 1951 the Declaration committed the four groups to the task of forming a democratic centralist international tendency, based on thoroughgoing agreement as embodied in a new international programme and the creation of an international leadership.
In October 1985 the Arbeiter Standpunkt was formed in Vienna as a result of a split in the IKL of Austria. They agreed to form a section of the tendency immediately. Over the following years the MRCI proved its solid foundations with the adoption of a series of resolutions and theses. By the spring of 1989 the experience of two years collaboration with Latin American comrades enabled Poder Obrero in Peru to join the ranks of the MRCI.
The League for a Revolutionary Communist International was founded in the summer of 1989. The adoption of the programme which is published here marked the transformation of the groups gathered together in the MRCI into a democratic centralist international tendency.
