The crying demand for the basic necessities of life has thrown millions into battle against capital. Capitalism today can no longer satisfy their demands. To all who seek to wield their efforts in a victorious struggle against capital, to the millions who have to fight capitalism in order to survive: This is your Party. The Communist Labor Party calls on you to join and to make possible the fulfillment of this Program.
An objective communist movement is emerging for the first time in the United States of North America. This is based on the current stage of the general crisis of world capitalism. This movement is the struggle of over 50 million people for the basic necessities of life. The most exploited and oppressed workers are starting to act and organize in their own class interests. Capitalist production relations block the use of the advanced forces of production to feed, house, and provide for this growing section of the working class.
The next step in the struggle of the USNA working class is for the greatest possible number of workers to take to the streets to fight in their own interests and against capital. Workers are already starting to take this step. In this social struggle workers inevitably confront the State. This social struggle is the first step in the preparation of the working class for its ultimate political struggle. It is the condition for the Party to carry out agitation and propaganda to elevate the social struggle to the level of class struggle.
To accomplish this step, we devote our activity to agitation and propaganda. Our Party concentrates its agitation and propaganda on the revolutionary element in the spontaneous movement. We agitate to politically shake up the proletariat. The aim of our agitation is to draw the maximum number of workers into the political struggle. Communist propaganda is scientific, theoretical, political education. Our propaganda exposes capitalist production relations as the root cause of the social destruction rampant today. The class struggle is a political struggle; our propaganda convinces the workers that society cannot be organized to meet their basic demands without their seizing political power.
Our goal is to win the greatest mass of workers to socialism and the vanguard of the proletariat to communism.