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What it Means to be Communist Today

In this article, we discuss the challenges of being a communist today. We argue that existing the Trotskyist and Stalinist organisations have little to offer the communist movement. While both Trotskyist organisations and the traditional Communist Parties have contributed something to Marxist theory and the labour movement, they are not satisfactory for building a revolutionary movement. We call on communists to form small collectives, study Marxist theory, participate in actions together, and link themselves with others through the United Communists of Europe. Being a communist today can be a challenge. The existing communist organisations have little to offer the communist movement. Some of them have decent people, but a problematic theoretical grounding for their political work. They might have serious activists and alot of history behind them, but will be very weak on Marxist theory and have problematic positions on some of the key questions of the day. While one might find fr...

Why We Need a Communist Party

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...

A Communist Approach to Organised Religion

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...

For a Politically-Conscious, Revolutionary Working Class

This article sets out the perspective of a politically-conscious, revolutionary working class. It tries to account for how political consciousness arises and what is involved in organising it . Introduction A major principle of revolutionary Marxism is the idea that the working class is the social agent of revolutionary transformation. Unlike the petty-bourgeoisie and the peasantry, which are fragmented and partial, the working class has the power to lead the whole of society to radical social change. Our primary goal is to enable the working class to seize state-power through an armed insurrection and the continuation of revolutionary war on an international scale. We want to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat, establish a socialist planned economy within a united federation of socialist states in Europe, and support revolutionary forces around the world. The end goal of the United Communists of Europe is communism, which is the natural product of an internationa...

Statement on the Fall of the Assad Regime

In recent days, Syria has undergone major transformations with the fall of the Assad regime. The United Communists of Europe is closely monitoring the situation and gathering information in order to produce an analysis of the situation. This is a short statement that expresses our general orientation towards the situation in the Middle East. After being in power for more than twenty three years, Bashar al-Assad has been forcibly removed from power by Islamist militants of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). What began in Aleppo, resulted in a rapid fall of the long-standing Ba'athist regime and the ousting from power of Bashar al-Assad. It should be noted that Assad's party, the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, ruled through a coalition called the National Progressive Front, which included a number of Nasserite groups and two communist parties. Ba'athism is an ideology that fuses Arab nationalism with elements of socialism. In its different forms, both in Iraq and Syria, Ba...

Transgender Healthcare: A Communist Perspective

Last week, we published a short programmatic piece on our website, The Road to Transgender Liberation . We shared the article with our friends and comrades, and received some helpful feedback. In this short article, we would like to discuss some of the feedback concerning trans healthcare and provide a response. Our hope is that this significantly improves the first article and helps us achieve greater programmatic unity. x In the original article, we pointed to the importance of raising the transgender movement to a greater level by demanding unity on the basis of class. Although trans workers have their own specific needs and face a very particular type of oppression, they can find great strength by uniting with non-trans workers and fighting the bourgeoisie together. Our attitude to the existing trans movement is to defend trans organisations, but raise this class demand in order to place their struggle on a more advanced level. One of our comrades noted that the f...