The political platform of the Marxist-Leninist Party of Britain and France
The Marxist-Leninist Party of Britain and France is a revolutionary communist party founded on the principles of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin. We fight for the overthrow of the capitalist system and the construction of socialism under the democratic dictatorship of the proletariat.
This programme sets out our analysis of the present conditions, our immediate demands, and our ultimate aims. It is not a utopian wish-list but a scientific programme based on materialist analysis of British and French society, the international situation, and the laws of capitalist development.
We recognise that the working class is the only consistently revolutionary class. Only through its organised, conscious action — guided by Marxist-Leninist science and led by a disciplined vanguard party — can capitalism be overthrown and a new society built.
These are the minimum demands around which the working class can be mobilised today. They do not represent our ultimate programme, but serve to sharpen the class struggle and expose the limits of capitalism.
Nationalisation of all rental housing stock. Abolition of landlordism. A mass programme of council housing construction. Rent controls indexed to wages, not profits. No evictions without rehousing.
An immediate increase in the minimum wage to a genuine living wage. Equal pay for equal work. Abolition of zero-hour contracts and precarious employment. Full employment guaranteed by the state.
Nationalisation without compensation of energy, water, transport, telecommunications, and the banking sector. These are public necessities, not private profit centres.
Fully funded universal healthcare, free at the point of use. Abolition of private healthcare and private schools. Free education at all levels, including adult education and retraining.
Repeal of all anti-trade union legislation. The right to strike without restriction. Workers' control and participation in management of all nationalised industries. Elected, recallable workplace representatives.
Immediate withdrawal from NATO. Closure of all foreign military bases on British and French soil. End to arms exports. Recognition of the right of all nations to self-determination.
The immediate demands above cannot be fully realised within the framework of capitalism. The ruling class will resist every genuine reform that threatens its power. Therefore, the struggle for immediate demands must be linked to the struggle for socialist revolution.
The bourgeois state — parliament, the courts, the police, the military — is an instrument of class rule. It cannot be reformed into serving the working class. It must be smashed and replaced by a proletarian state: a democratic dictatorship of the working class, based on workers' councils, people's militias, and elected, recallable representatives at every level.
All major means of production — factories, mines, land, banks, transport — must be brought under social ownership and subjected to central planning in the interests of the whole people. Small personal property and cooperative enterprises will be protected and encouraged. The market will be progressively replaced by planned production for human need.
We embrace artificial intelligence, automation, and advanced technology as tools of human liberation. Under socialism, the fruits of automation will be shared by all — shorter working hours, higher living standards, expanded leisure and education. Under capitalism, technology serves only to enrich the few and immiserate the many. We are pro-AI, pro-transhumanism, and against all forms of Luddism.
A socialist society requires a cultural revolution. Education must be universal, scientific, and materialist. Religious institutions will receive no state funding or support. The media must serve the people, not private owners. Art, science, and culture will be freed from the market and made accessible to all.
We are strict materialists. The world is physical, determined, and knowable through science. Consciousness is computation — intelligence and consciousness are two words for the same physical process, whether running on biological neural networks or silicon transformer neural networks. There is no soul, no spirit, no divine will. We reject all idealism.
We are hardline atheists. God does not exist. Religion is the opium of the people — a tool of class control that dulls the mind and reconciles the oppressed to their oppression. We fight for a world free of superstition.
Marxism-Leninism is not a dogma but a science — the science of revolution. We apply the scientific method to the study of society, history, and economics. Our positions are based on evidence and analysis, not faith or sentiment.
We oppose all attempts to water down, distort, or revise Marxism-Leninism. Trotskyism, social democracy, Dengism, and all forms of revisionism serve the bourgeoisie by disarming the working class ideologically. We maintain the revolutionary line.
The working class has no country. The struggle against capitalism is international. We stand in solidarity with all peoples fighting against imperialism, colonialism, and exploitation.
We oppose British and French imperialism in all its forms — military, economic, cultural. We oppose NATO as the armed wing of Western imperialism. We support the right of all nations to self-determination and resist foreign domination.
We seek fraternal relations with genuine communist and workers' parties worldwide. We reject both great-power chauvinism and narrow nationalism. Proletarian internationalism is our guiding principle in foreign affairs.
The revolutionary transformation of society requires a disciplined, centralised party of the working class — a vanguard party organised on the principles of democratic centralism.
Democratic centralism means: freedom of discussion, unity of action. All members have the right and duty to participate in debate, to criticise, and to be criticised. But once a decision is taken by majority vote, all members are bound to carry it out. Factionalism, cliquism, and undisciplined behaviour are incompatible with a revolutionary party.
The party must be rooted in the working class — in workplaces, communities, and trade unions. It must combine legal and illegal work as conditions require. It must train its members in Marxist-Leninist theory and practice. It must maintain the highest standards of criticism and self-criticism.
"Without a revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement. This idea cannot be insisted upon too strongly at a time when the fashionable preaching of opportunism goes hand in hand with an infatuation for the narrowest forms of practical activity."
— V.I. Lenin, What Is To Be Done? (1902)This programme is a living document, subject to revision through collective discussion and the lessons of practice. Join us in the struggle for a socialist future.