Programm first.
The world is facing a deeper crisis than the 2008-10 Great Recession. A decade of near-stagnation with historically low interest rates has given way to a global surge in inflation, threatening working class living standards and millions of poor people’s livelihoods. What can we do about it?
Why is the programme so important?
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.
Facing the crises:
A manifesto for socialist revolution
Published in 2023, this is current programme of our international tendency.
From the crisis of globalization
to the socialist revolution
From Resistance to Revolution
At its recent congress the League for the Fifth International passed a new programmatic manifesto. Its policies and slogans are intended to guide revolutionary socialists in the struggles to come, and to act as a proposed manifesto for a new Fifth International
From Protest to Power
The previous programme of the League for the Fifth International, published in 2003 after our sixth congress.
The Trotzkyist Manifesto
Published in 1989, this is the founding programme of our international tendency. It contains the key foundations of our programmatic method, and represented the first attempt by our organisation to re-elaborate the Transitional Programme from 1938.
Fundamentals of our programme
From Permanent Revolution issue one, a general outline of the political line that was being developed at that time, a prelude to the Trotskyist Manifesto (1989) and From Protest to Power (2003)
Key Documents
