United Communists of Europe

Because our Unity Statement is the basis for membership in the United Communists of Europe, we provide a short summary here that highlights the main points of unity of our organisation. This document is meant to help those who are interested clearly identify the primary political positions of the United Communists of Europe .  Necessity of a socialist revolution . The contradictions of capitalism have made all attempts to reform capitalist society impossible. Instead of participating in campaigns–whether electoral or social–to improve existing conditions, our organisation unites revolutionaries and prepares the subjective forces for socialist revolution. If workers manage to win higher wages through strike actions, we will not oppose them. Rather, we will point out that such victories do nothing to abolish the contradiction between capital and labour, which can only be overcome through a socialist revolution. Workers need to make a socialist revolution if they are really going to t...

The Central Committee of the United Communists of Europe sends its warmest May Day greetings to the working people of Europe. International Workers Day is a day to commemorate the struggles of the international working class in its struggle against the bourgeoisie. It is not just a workers holiday, but an international recognition of the class struggle and the irreconcilable differences between capital and labour, between oppressor and oppressed, between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. May Day is a day of international working class solidarity in its struggle against the imperialist bourgeoisie and monopoly capitalism. It is a day to make calls for socialist revolution and a communist future that puts an end to all forms of oppression.  On May Day, workers around the world will march through their cities in demonstrations often led by reformists and class collaborationists. In Europe, most of the trade unions are led by bureaucratic officials who prefer diplomacy, using strike...

The central task of the United Communists of Europe is to lay the foundation for the organisation of the communist party. Through our programmatic intervention, we hope to enable revolutionaries to create new communist organisations that express the revolutionary politics of the proletariat. With our politics, which are rooted in revolutionary Marxism, we hope to provide everything that is needed to transform the working class into a politically conscious proletarian subject, with a clear vision of its needs and interests. In this article, we would like to address what constitutes the communist party and how it differs from bourgeois parties.  A bourgeois party is the political unification of the bourgeoisie on a programmatic basis in order to enact policies that advance and protect the system of capitalist property. This is made possible by the bourgeoisie's monopoly on state-power, which it uses to enforce its legislation, repress the proletariat and advance the class interests o...

In this article, we explain how revolutionary Marxists approach organised religion. Contrary to bourgeois humanists or atheists, we approach organised religion from a historical materialist standpoint, viewing it as a reflection of the material conditions. Our attitude towards religious workers is informed by a united front perspective, which unites with religious workers around shared objectives while maintaining our political independence and agitating against religious leaders.  Marx famously once said that religion is 'the opium of the masses'. What he meant by this concerns the relationship of religious consciousness to social reality. Marx was not simply identifying religion with ignorance or advocating a simplistic atheism. His view was not that a religious person is backward or inherently reactionary. To understand Marx's position, one must understand the social function of opium.  In Marx's time until the forties, opium was used as a painkiller and an anaesthet...