Issued: n.d. [July 1980].
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Within the broader anti-revisionist, anti-“left” opportunist tendency there exist several distinct party building centers.
The Steering Committee of the OCIC must put the interests of our tendency as a whole over the interests of the OC and cease its “siege mentality”. Instead, it must develop relations with all forces based on respect and comraderie, implementing the principle of unity-struggle-unity.
The OC and its local and regional centers are but one arena for taking up the theoretical struggle of the movement and as such will not embody the totality of the movement's ideological leadership.
The Steering Committee must recognize these objective facts and break with its sectarian practices and circle warfare against those within the OC who are critical of its line and practice and those who choose to remain outside of the OC for principled political differences.
The struggle to build a single, unified ideological center for our movement will be a protracted one. Its existence cannot be asserted. The decisive factor in the creation of such a single center will be the development of genuine theoretical and political unity.
The Steering Committee must recognize that the decisive factor in forging the party spirit is not through the breakdown of organizational barriers or through a set of rules and policies. Without genuine ideological struggle and theoretical and political unity, such practices are bureaucratic. The SC must restore the correct relationship between politics and organizational form.
The OC must be open to participation of individuals, particularly since racism has prevented the participation of many minority Marxist-Leninists in existing local organizations.
BE IT RESOLVED: That the Steering Committee should seek out all forces in our movement within and outside the OC to initiate proposals for national joint work to develop collective theoretical and political study and struggle.
That, internally the Steering Committee should organize the dissemination and discussion of various lines, instead of simply disseminating its own, on what can be collectively determined to be central political issues. Open and democratic ideological struggle must be ensured.
That, the OC should place party building line on its agenda, given it is the key line difference dividing our tendency. To sidestep the major question facing our movement is irresponsible and objectively holding back the development of unity of our forces.