The Communist Workers' Party and Fourth International - Sylvia Pankhurst

Object:—

To overthrow Capitalism, the wage system, and the machinery of the Capitalist State, and to establish a world-wide Federation of Communist Republics administered by occupational Soviets.

Method:—

1.—To spread the knowledge of Communist principles amongst the people;

2.—To take no part in elections to Parliament and the local governing bodies, and to carry on propaganda exposing the futility of Communist participation therein;

3.—To refuse affiliation or co-operation with the Labour Party and all Reformist organisations;

4.—To emancipate the workers from the Trade Unions which are merely palliative institutions;

5.—To prepare for the proletarian revolution by setting up Soviets or workers' councils in all branches of production, distribution and administration, in order that the workers may seize and maintain control.

With this object, to organise one Revolutionary Union:

(a) built up on the workshop basis, covering all workers, regardless of sex, craft or grade, who pledge themselves to work for the overthrow of Capitalism and the establishment of the workers' Soviets;

(b) organised into a department for reach industry or service;

(c) the unemployed being organised as a department of the One Revolutionary Union, so that they may have local and national representation in the workers' Soviets;

6.—To affiliate to the Communist Workers' International, Fourth International.

Those who subscribe to the above principles are invited to join the preliminary organisation. Membership card will be sent on receipt of one shilling to the preliminary committee of the Fourth International at 152 Fleet Street, London, E.C.

Taken from the Workers' Dreadnought, Vol. 8 No. 48, 11 February 1922.