We work to reorganise and reorient the labour movement around a fight for the objective of a workers' government, a government based on, accountable to, and serving the organised working class.
We work to rally all trade unions and working-class organisations to fight for - and to back election candidates committed to:
• liberation of unions from the shackles riveted on by Tory laws. Re-instate the right to take essential trade union action, such as solidarity strikes
• restoration of the National Health Service and the welfare state as public services, publicly-owned, publicly-controlled
• a decent minimum wage for all
• equal education opportunities: free primary, secondary and tertiary education for all
• return to public ownership of industries and services flogged to their mates by the Tories and NewLabour, this time under proper democratic control
• tax the rich: expropriate the big banks and financial institutions which dominate economic life through the "casino economy" of high finance. Re-direct bank funds into job creation and improved welfare for all.
Class is the decisive test. Make class politics the centre of labour movement concerns! If the labour movement doesn't fight for a working-class government, then it will get a bourgeois (Tory, or Blairite-Brownite) one. That is the lesson of Labour's 15-year drift to the right between 1982 and 1997 in pursuit of government office, and its miserable performance once in office.
An effective workers' government, with the scope and power to submit European capitalism to its control, must be a Europe-wide government. The aim of a workers' government in Britain points directly to a workers' united Europe. A workers' government in Britain and in Europe - these aims will give focus, drive, and sense to mass working-class politics.
