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The C.F.B.(M-L) is an organisation of Communists whose purpose is to help create the conditions to form a revolutionary party. The rising level of struggle against all oppression in Britain will not effectively challenge the ruling-class until the lessons of these struggles are widely understood by the working class and its allies. A disciplined party guided by scientific socialism is needed to lead in this process of raising the struggle to a conscious political level.
No such party exists. The historical contradictions leading to the split in the international Communist movement in the early 1960’s have not yet been resolved and the lessons applied to the actual conditions existing generally in Western Europe. Without this being done there will be no guiding political line and programme and no unity within the Marxist-Leninist movement.
The C.F.B. (M-L) is comprised of groups of Marxist-Leninists who have been working together since 1967 to aid in this vital task of forming a party. It has consistently worked to achieve this goal by combining two forms of political work.
FIRSTLY: We study the main problems facing the British people and the world revolutionary movement, applying the scientific socialist method developed by Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao Tsetung.
SECONDLY: We engage in immediate struggles on the main issues of exploitation and oppression.
We believe that only in combining the lessons of both these forms of political work can a correct line be developed. Without such a guiding line and programme the struggles on all the vital and immediate issues will continue to demonstrate the treadmill characteristics of the last 150 years.
In developing this line we recognise the need to destroy the influence of social democracy, revisionism and Trotskyism the main defeatist ideological trends which act to disarm the working-class.
We understand that as all these tasks are increasingly achieved it will become possible to build a mass revolutionary movement capable of withstanding ruling-class attacks and finally of overthrowing and smashing the present system and its State machine. The working class and its party will then implement its own dictatorship over the present employing class to build socialism and prevent the restoration of capitalism.
Our basic policy document is ’The Marxist-Leninist Movement in Britain; Origins and Perspectives’ published in 1969. Readers wanting to know more about our policy and political work should contact their local group or the Secretary of the C.F.B.
Signed articles in M.L.Q. do not necessarily represent the political line of the C.F.B. (M-L).