In the revolutionary Marxist tradition, the programme of a party, or a pre-party organisation, defines its strategy for achieving the goal of overthrowing the state that protects capitalist property relations and establishing a workers‘ state based on democratically accountable workers‘ councils. The programme, therefore, combines analysis of the existing political situation, and the lessons of the principal class struggle events that have created it, with a codification of the key objectives of ongoing class struggle and the tactics necessary to achieve them. Since the capitalist system is global, it follows that the programme must also be global in its scope but, at the same time, the class struggle is inevitably rooted within the borders of bourgeois states and, therefore, in any one of those states, the global programme must be scaled down to focus on immediate tasks within that country in the form of „action programmes“. It follows from this understanding of the revolutionary programme, that it must, from time to time, be updated to take into account key events in the class struggle and the cyclical movements of capital.