Unhampered by the hangovers of feudalism, USNA capitalism by the end of the 19th century had fully entered into its aggressive, moribund, final stage–imperialism. The USNA multinational state is the international hangman of revolutions and the enemy of the peoples of the earth. The working class of the United States of North America is locked in a life and death struggle with the capitalist class. This struggle is evolving under conditions where the workers have had no general staff–no Marxist-Leninist Communist Party–to guide them. In the struggle to form and develop such a Party, the Marxist-Leninists are carrying out their historic responsibilities. Basing ourselves on the Communist Manifesto and the Program of the Communist International, the Marxist-Leninists of the USNA set out to rally the revolutionary working class around the following program.
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The working class of the United States of North America constitutes the majority of the population. The stranglehold of the big financial capitalists over the countryside has led to a sharp decline in the family farm. The growth of the working class through absorption of the superfluous farmers, through the destruction of the broad stratum of the petty bourgeoisie and through immigration has placed the proletariat in an extremely favorable position. The means of production in the USNA are concentrated in the hands of a few; the proletariat and the class enemy stand face to face. The historic conflict is at hand.
Two inevitable internal policies of imperialism are bribery of the upper section of the working class and terror against the more proletarian sections of the class. From the most oppressed and exploited workers there is developing a struggle against the capitalists and especially against the state.
At this time the need of the imperialists to insure a broad social base of support for their naked imperialist aggression in the colonial world inhibits the full maturing of a fascist state form in Anglo-America. However the military has long ago clamped a stranglehold on the administrative bureaucracy. The military, loyal reactionary servants of imperialism, presents a grave danger to civil liberties and to the labor movement.
The trend toward shifting the economic base from mechanics to electronics has not only increased the reserve army of unemployed but also created a huge qualitatively new army of the permanently unemployed, especially among national minority proletarians. Every technical advance makes the position of the proletarians more untenable.
The struggle against the capitalist class is a struggle against all who live by the labor of others, and against all exploitation. It can only end in the seizing of power by the working class, and the transferal of all land, instruments, factories, machines and mines to the whole of society for the organization of social production under which all that is produced by the workers and all improvements of production must benefit the working people themselves.
The revolutionary working class movement is the gravedigger of USNA monopoly capitalism. It is part of the international movement of the world's working class for peace, democracy, national liberation and socialism.
The struggle of the workers against the inroads of fascism in Anglo-America and against the fascist state apparatus in the direct colonies of the USNA accelerates the political development of the class and inevitably sharpens the antagonisms that can only end with the dictatorship of the proletariat–the only political form that guarantees the emancipation of all the toiling masses. The struggle of the working class of the USNA for its emancipation is a political struggle. Its aim, by defeating the fascist offensive, is to pass over to the offensive and overthrow the monopoly capitalist rule which is the seedbed of fascism.
Only through the revolutionary struggle for reforms can the proletariat be organized to establish its dictatorship.
The emancipation of the working class is the revolutionary act of self-emancipation.
Our Party declares that its aim is to develop the class consciousness of the workers through our agitation in the class struggle. This will enable the proletariat to establish its hegemony in the peoples' struggle for national liberation, democracy, peace and socialism.