No War But the Class War Initiative in South Asia

Here, we briefly explain our points of adherence. If you agree, get in touch with us!

• Against capitalism, imperialism and all nationalisms. No support for any national capitals, “lesser evils”, or states in formation.

We stand against all the world’s capitalism and imperialism and every nationalism. No support is offered to any national capital or state in formation. There are no lesser evils to choose between competing thieves. The Ukrainian flag and the Russian flag are identical shrouds for class power. This principle remains an absolute bedrock foundation. This lesson was learned from socialists who betrayed the class in 1914. This also applies to struggles that just create new capitalist states. There are only different managers for the same brutal exploitation system. The real fight is against the factory owners and their cronies. The foreign business competitor is not the enemy. A state with a red flag is not our ally. Every nation on this planet is capitalist and as such are not on our side. We, the proletariat, stand alone but there are billions of us.

• For a society where states, wage-labour, private property, money and production for profit are replaced by a world of freely associated producers.

We fight for a completely new society without states or wage labour. Private property and money must be abolished forever. All production for profit and its insane rhythm must end. This vision is a world of freely associated producers living in peace. Reforming the current misery is not the goal, only its total abolition. A better contract is not wanted; the contract must be burned entirely. The state’s monopoly on violence and power must be smashed. The wage system, which is just modern slavery, must be destroyed. Private property, which is simply theft, must be overthrown. It does not matter if the wage system is perpetuated by a “centralised” state. The direct rule of the associated producers globally is proposed. Life should not be dictated by the demands of profits for shareholders or the state.

• For the self-organised struggle of the working class, for the formation of independent strike committees, mass assemblies and workers’ councils.

We are for the self-organised struggle of the working class. True change will not be gifted by politicians and thus electoralism and reformism are useless. Capitalism will fall not because the bourgeoisie are morally evil but because of its internal contradictions: The tendency of rate of profit to fall. The tendency of rate of profit to fall means social democratic reforms are not only less and less viable for more and more nations (with it being impossible any further for developed nations). A society where the working class rule will not come through the political mechanisms of the bourgeoisie because they simply will not allow it.

Unions are permanent negotiators of wage labour and no matter how noble their beginnings, they strive towards institutionalisation, becoming an organ of the state itself. We do not oppose presence within unions in order to reach other workers but refuse the idea that unions can be transformed into a revolutionary form through entryism. Unions fragment the working class by trades and position. Union bureaucracies straitjacket the working class movement as these “professional revolutionaries” (more like professional reformists) dictate when a strike must occur, how things will go on and immediately condemn the self-activity of the working class when things get out of their own control.

The proletariat in the past has experimented with organs such as communes and rank-and-file committees within unions, they all have their own limitations. Thus, the formation of independent strike committees everywhere is essential for the working class to organise beyond sectors. A strike committee becomes a fortress of class solidarity, providing them with a first glimpse of the power they wield. These organs will be the predecessors of the true form of working class power: Workers’ Councils. Power must be seized by the class itself. A mass assembly practices real direct democracy daily. The class becomes fit to rule by ruling itself. A workers’ council becomes a dual power against the state, combining both economic and political organisation of life, beyond just a locality. It is only through first an international and then global network of workers councils that the process of true self-emancipation is realised.

• Against oppression and exploitation, for the unity of the working class and the coming together of genuine internationalists

We stand against every oppression and all exploitation always. The total unity of the entire working class must be achieved. The specific oppressions capitalism creates to divide us must be fought. This includes racism and sexism, homophobia, vile xenophobia and so on. The fight against these forms of oppression, if left to various single-issue movements, become bourgeois weapons that fracture our class and weaken us. In the Imperialist Era, from time to time, the bourgeoisie utilise these divisions such as nations and races to wage war on us and thus, in the spirit of the Zimmerwald Left, with a global march towards rearmament, the unity of internationalists is a necessity for the revolution and this must transcend the borders of bourgeois nation states. Our true country is the entire world itself. Our true nation is the working class and nothing else.

Workers of South Asia, we must unite against imperialist wars as the main enemy is at home!